Cloud computing development tools call for collaboration, integration

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Dan Sullivan.

Software development is software development; the basics don’t change when you introduce cloud computing. But moving to cloud-based development presents a few new opportunities, as well as some challenges. Though each enterprise is different, these tools offer something most companies can use to develop applications in the cloud.

One of the most fundamental tools for developers is an integrated development environment (IDE). Development tools, such as the Amazon Toolkit for Eclipse and features within Microsoft Visual Studio, are useful for developing cloud applications. When developing for the cloud, enterprises might also want to consider using cloud-based IDEs in the engineering process…

Aptana Studio 3, for example, is an open source IDE that supports direct deployment to Heroku and Engine Yard Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments. The IDE runs locally on Windows, Linux or Mac platforms; that local development platform could be a virtual machine that resides in the cloud. If you want to move your IDE to the cloud, you could use one of the growing number of cloud-based IDEs…

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