A New Wave of Software Development
- Innovation in Software Development Style -
The style of software development has been changing day and night, and development at IBM has been changing, too.
I will introduce some development trends in this article. First is the trend of using a development style where several light languages are employed such as Groovy (for Java programming) and PHP (for Web programming).
Another trend is open source type development, such as in the case of Apache and Eclipse.
Thirdly, social network systems (SNS) like Wikis and blogs, etc. have become available for use. Fourth, there is the introduction of the open project that IBM started up to support agile development, Jazz™. Finally, there is a trend that touches on "community-drive" type development that advances CDCD (Community Driven Commercial Development) while taking in user opinions.
In the change vision's approach described in this article, Jazz is an example of an agile development environment where the sharing of the vision of the team is promoted.
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Kazuo Nemoto
Advisory IT Specialist
Software Group. Software Technical Promotion
IBM Japan, Ltd.
Masaki Wakao
Senior Technical Staff Member
AIM/Rational Development, Yamato Software Laboratory
IBM Japan, Ltd.