Posted on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
College Coders Working With IBM’s Project Zero Web 2.0 Tool
Computer World
Students at North Carolina State University (NCSU) are learning to build business applications in the Web 2.0 mold using an IBM incubator project called Project Zero.
Announced last year, Project Zero is a programming framework for rapidly building Web applications. Its pieces include a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP (hypertext preprocessor), two hot dynamic languages, and application programming interfaces (API) for creating representational state transfer (REST) Web services, user interfaces and mashups, according to IBM. It is available as a plug-in for the Eclipse integrated development environment, as well as in a version for developers who prefer to work from the command line.
However, the project has faced some criticism, because although its community-driven model echoes open source, it is not an open-source project. Mark Hanny, vice president of strategic partnerships at IBM, said a commercial version of Project Zero could surface soon.
James Governor, an analyst at RedMonk, suggested that it makes sense for IBM to embrace newer development methods in its work with schools.
“IBM doesn’t want to be your father’s IBM; it wants to be your son’s,” he said.
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