Article Review “Five Key Enterprise Development Trends”
By Daryl Taft posted on eWeek.com on 12/04/2011
This article discusses five key enterprise development trends including HTML5; the prevalence of Web, mobile and cloud development; advances in languages and integrated development environments (IDEs); the maturation of the Java PaaS; and the use of open-source in Analytics Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
HTML5 is a key consideration for developers. According to Al Hilwa, an analyst with IDC, “By 2013, we will reach a point where 90 percent of smartphones and tablets will sport HTML5-capable browsers.” Microsoft has already adopted HTML5 as the standard for Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 9. Adobe has stopped its development projects to support Flash technology for mobile browsers and Microsoft may even do the same with Silverlight, its development framework for building Web and mobile applications.
The next trend for developers to be aware of are advances in languages and integrated development environments (IDEs). Current
Web-based development environments like Eclipse Orion, Cloud9 IDE, and eXo Cloud IDE are already becoming more popular. These make the browser in the mobile device the IDE.
The third major trend is referred to as the “big-data and analytics craze.” This is referring to the need to capture and analyze the plethora of coming from intelligent devices and social media. As a result, IDC predicts the market for intelligent systems will soon represent a $520 billion industry.
Next is the maturation of the Java platform as a service (PaaS). Oracle’s Java Cloud represents the culminates of PaaS offerings and sends tells that Java developers to start looking at these solutions for deployment of new applications.
The final trend noted is Agile Application Lifecycle Management, which is the continuous process of managing the life of an application through governance, development and maintenance. More and more developers are integrating new tools to support Agile development. Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop Technologies referred to it as the “open-source powered tidal wave changing how developers work and collaborate”.
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