JAVA

Java technology’s versatility, efficiency, platform portability, and security make it the ideal technology for network computing.

Why Software Developers Choose Java ?

Java has been tested, refined, extended, and proven by a dedicated community. And numbering more than 6.5 million developers, it's the largest and most active on the planet. With its versatilty, efficiency, and portability, Java has become invaluable to developers by enabling them to:

• Write software on one platform and run it on virtually any other platform
• Create programs to run within a Web browser and Web services
• Develop server-side applications for online forums, stores, polls, HTML forms processing, and more
• Combine applications or services using the Java language to create highly customized applications or services
• Write powerful and efficient applications for mobile phones, remote processors, low-cost consumer products, and practically any other device with a digital heartbeat

PHP

PHP (officially "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is a server-side HTML-embedded scripting language. When combined with a MySQL database, you get some very powerful facility.

Why Software Developers Choose PHP ?

• server-side: This means that PHP scripts execute on the Web server, not within the browser on your local machine.
  


• HTML embedded scripting language: This means that PHP statements and commands are actually embedded in your HTML documents. When the Web server sees the PHP statements in the Web page, the server executes the statements and sends the resulting output along with the rest of the HTML.

PHP is excellent for creating dynamic Web pages for e-commerce and other Web applications. A dynamic Web page is a page that interacts with the user, so that each user visiting the page sees customized information. Dynamic Web applications are prevalent in commercial (e-commerce) sites, where the content displayed is generated from information accessed in a database or other external source.

PHP offers a simple and universal solution for easy-to-program dynamic Web pages. The intuitive interface allows programmers to embed PHP commands right in the HTML page. Its elegant design makes PHP significantly easier to maintain and update than comparable scripts in other languages. Because of its wide distribution to a large community of users, PHP is very well supported.

FLEX (RIAs)

Rich Internet applications (RIAs) offer a rich, engaging experience that improves user satisfaction and increases productivity. Using the broad reach of the Internet, RIAs can be deployed across browsers and desktops.

Why Software Developers Choose FLEX (RIAs)?

The key difference between RIAs and other Internet applications is the amount of interaction in the interface. In a traditional page-based Internet application, interaction is limited to a small set of standard controls such as checkboxes, radio buttons, form fields and buttons. This severely limits our ability to create usable and engaging applications, and most Internet applications have been clumsier and more difficult to use than their desktop counterparts. An RIA can use a wider (and hopefully better) range of controls to improve users’ interaction with the interface, allowing efficient interactions, better error management, feedback and overall user experience.

The key features of these applications include:

• The user interacts directly with page elements (inline editing, drag-and-drop, panning a map)
• Part of a page is updated (instead of reloading)
• More detailed information is available on the same page (instead of on a new page)
• Feedback, confirmation and error messages are provided within the page

Flash

Flash is used for vector animation. Vector graphics are ideal for the web because they are so lightweight.

Why Software Developers Choose Flash ?

Over the releases of new versions of Flash,Macromedia has made Flash more and more controllable via programming, where they have it positioned as a competitor to HTML to build interactive web sites and applications such as an e-commerce store. Macromedia argues that Flash is the way to go instead of HTML because of the following reasons:

• Flash movies load faster and save on download time because Flash is vector based whereas HTML is not.
• Flash intelligently ‘caches’ it’s movies so they don’t have to be reloaded.
• Flash gives the user (the person viewing/using the Flash movie) a more responsive ‘rich-client’ like experience.

Adobe® AIR

The Adobe® AIR runtime environments complements the advantages of browser by providing the same application development and deployment benefits while adding desktop integration, local data access, and enhanced branding opportunities. An emerging design pattern for rich Internet applications (RIAs) is to deliver a browser-based version of an RIA in the browser for all users and an RIA on the desktop for more active users.

Why Software Developers Choose Adobe® AIR ?

• Installed applications have more persistence, power, and functionality.
• Applications install seamlessly from the browser or download and install like a traditional desktop application.
• AIR provides APIs that allow applications to be updated as easily as pushing new content to a website.
• AIR applications are cross-platform, so they can be installed on and run on multiple operating systems.
• Integrated JavaScript and ActionScript virtual machines are compatible with the browser.
• Applications can run in the background or provide notifications like traditional desktop applications.
• RIAs are installed and available on the desktop. They store information locally and operate offline.
• Applications can access a desktop file system, clipboard, drag and drop events, system tray/notifications, and more.
• RIAs have a customizable user interface and desktop integration, enabling branded experiences.
• Applications have unlimited local storage and access to a local database, plus encrypted local storage.

Microsoft ® Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device browser plug-in that helps companies design, develop and deliver applications and experiences on the Web. A free download that installs in seconds, Silverlight enables a new class of rich, secure and scalable cross-platform experiences.

Why Software Developers Choose Microsoft ® Silverlight?

• Support for Higher Quality Video & Audio
• Empowering Richer Experiences
• Improving Rich Internet Application Productivity
• Enhanced Data Support
• Improved performance
• Out of Browser Capabilities

Microsoft ® .NET

Microsoft ASP.NET is a free technology that allows programmers to create dynamic web applications. ASP.NET can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications.

Why Software Developers Choose Microsoft ® .NET ?

The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software framework that can be installed on computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes a large library of coded solutions to common programming problems and a virtual machine that manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. The .NET Framework is a Microsoft offering and is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform.

The framework's Base Class Library provides a large range of features including user interface, data and data access, database connectivity, cryptography, web application development, numeric algorithms, and network communications. The class library is used by programmers, who combine it with their own code to produce applications.

Some features of .Net Development:

• Interoperability
• Common Runtime Engine
• Language Independence
• Base Class Library
• Simplified Deployment
• Security
• Portability