IBM working on Project Zero for development of Web 2.0 applications

US based tech giant IBM is working on a new project being develop to enable agile development of Web 2.0 applications. The initiative has been named Project Zero.

The project would offers an environment for building applications based on popular Web technologies.

It would include runtime for Groovy and PHP along with APIs for developing REST-style services and capabilities for mashups and rich Web interfaces.

The project website further states about the initiative: “The name Zero is a reminder of the project’s aspirations: Zero unnecessary overhead and complexity. Zero barriers to success. Zero of what you don’t need. Project Zero is designed to enable faster, more productive development and deployment of Web applications and Web-based services. It sets out to allow developers to spend more time writing actual code instead of complex configuration files.”

Stephen O’Grady, principal analyst at RedMonk had this to say about this project: “IBM’s Project Zero can be thought of as something of an application server for Groovy and PHP code bases.”

Jeffrey Hammond of Forrester Research added: “I think that from a technology standpoint Project Zero is a good step in the right direction. REST-based Web services and dynamic languages like PHP and JavaScript are gaining increased momentum in the market because they make it simpler to build and consume services.”

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