This document discusses trends in developing software applications in the cloud. It notes that web applications are now continuously integrated and iterated online. It then summarizes several online integrated development environments (IDEs) that allow collaboratively developing and deploying web applications in the cloud, including eXo Cloud-IDE, Cloud9 IDE, Coderun Studio, Kodingen, and JsApp.US. Each IDE supports features like syntax highlighting, auto-complete, version control integration, and deploying applications to platforms as a service. The document concludes that online IDEs enable collaborative web software development through the web.

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Developing in the Cloud
Michael Hausenblas, Aftab Iqbal
Stefan.Decker@deri.org
http://www.StefanDecker.org/
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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.