As programmers and businesses become more familiar with Java, they have a better idea of whether it suits their needs or not. Consequently, respondents are slightly more sure this time as to whether or not they will be using Java in the next year. This represents a distinct shift toward more trust in Java's security measures from the Fifth survey. For the question, respondents could check more than one answer. All categories except online sources showed a slight increase from the Fifth survey.
European respondents continue to report higher percentages of authorship in most categories.
This was a new question for this survey. Since many repositories of Java applets are available, it is no longer necessary to be able to program to use Java. This question was designed to find out if these repositories are being used by web authors. European respondents are slightly more likely to have used them. This was a new question for this survey.