Highlights From the 2025 Java Developer Productivity Report - JRebel

## Spending Is Slowing, But Investing in Java Tools Is More Important Than Ever Long-forecasted economic headwinds have arrived in force for nearly all industries. While it’s clear development spending has slowed across the board, enterprises (1,000+ employees) are still carving out budgets for the people and tools necessary to maintain their mission-critical business applications. Regardless of company size, development teams are now being tasked with doing more with less — and in increasingly complex development environments. Compounding that issue is tightened budgets and oftentimes blanket hiring freezes. Developers now have more to do and greater time burdens for those tasks, which makes investing in Java tools more important than ever. … **Source: ** **2025 Java Developer Productivity Report ** ... Respondents were most likely to turn to AI tools for code completion (60%) and refactoring (39%). Error detection (30%), documentation generation (28%), debugging assistance (26%), and automated testing (21%) were also ripe use cases. ... ## Remote Redeploy Times Are a Barrier to Java Productivity The 2025 Java Developer Productivity Report found that 70% of respondents are using remote, containerized, or cloud-based development environments. That stat should surprise exactly no one, given the flexibility that cloud affords. **Source: ** **2025 Java Developer Productivity Report ** That flexibility comes at a cost, however. 23% of respondents say their redeploys are five minutes or longer for local development environments, but 52% saw redeploys of that length for remote development environments. And 13% of respondents said that remote redeploys take 10-plus minutes.