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Developing in the Cloud
Michael Hausenblas, Aftab Iqbal
Stefan.Decker@deri.org
http://www.StefanDecker.org/
Copyright 2010 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved.

2. Introduction
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 Today, Web-based applications are not
launched.
 On the Web, we continuously integrate and
constantly iterate (e.g. Facebook’s layout).
 Source-code of applications also lives on
the Web in different code repositories.
 Cloud computing and AJAX enables us to
run things in browser which were typically
run on the desktop.
 Programming environments which can run
inside browser.
Continuous integration and deployment of
software application

3. eXo Cloud-IDE *
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 Offers teams/developers to collaboratively
develop Java, PHP, HTML/JavaScript and
Ruby Web applications.
 Allows easy migration from development to
deployment by deploying application
directly into PaaS environment.
 Features:
 Support for distributed version control systems like
Git
 Syntax highlighting
 Code Auto-complete
 Code outline etc.
* http://cloud-ide.com/

4. Cloud9 IDE *
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 A development-as-a-service platform for
JavaScripters and other developers.
 Started with a vision of an online
JavaScript development platform where all
the code is open source.
 Built entirely on standard HTML,
JavaScript and CSS.
 Features:
 Supports integration to code repositories like
GitHub
 Syntax highlighting
 Code Auto-complete
 Code outline etc.
* http://cloud9ide.com/

5. Coderun Studio *
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 Supports C#/.NET, PHP and JavaScript
applications.
 Allows testing, debugging and deployment
in the cloud.
 Features:
 Supports opening and editing Visual Studio
solution/project files
 Supports MS SQL 2005 and Amazon SimpleDB
as backend
 Integration with social platforms (e.g. facebook,
twitter, digg etc.)
 Syntax highlighting and Code Auto-complete etc.
* http://www.coderun.com/studio/

6. Kodingen *
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 An online coding platform supporting code
editing for PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby,
JavaScript etc., applications
 Works with well known online Web editors
like :
 Ace &Bespin
 Codemirror
 Ymacs etc.
 Features:
 Supports Databases (MySQL, SqLite,
PostgreSQL)
 Support for version control systems (svn, git etc.)
in the future.
* https://kodingen.com/

7. JsApp.US *
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 A development and hosting platform for
node.js applications
 Features:
 Syntax highlighting.
* http://jsapp.us/

8. Conclusion
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 Discussed trends of Web software development.
 Online IDEs enable collaboration through the Web.
 Outlined few online IDEs and their features.