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Groovy and PHP. It also includes application programming interfaces optimized
for producing REST-style services, integration mash-ups, and rich Web interfaces
corresponding to Web 2.0 concepts. It gives access to the latest features by
defaulting to experimental modules. Project Zero is free for development and
limited deployment.
Project Zero creates a new way to build commercial software, an approach that is
called Community-Driven Commercial Development. Community-Driven
Commercial Development is powered by community feedback.
The Community-Driven Commercial Development process served as a base for
two IBM Software products:
► WebSphere sMash Developer Edition
This product is a stable build of Project Zero, offered free of charge for
development and limited deployment usage. It includes useful tools for
developing applications in WebSphere sMash.
► WebSphere sMash
This product is the final commercial product and consists of stable modules
for production deployment. WebSphere sMash also includes messaging and
reliable communications features with Reliable Transport Extension for
WebSphere sMash package.
Some of the features of WebSphere sMash are as follows:
– It is an application-centric runtime. You can just create an application and
run it. Everything needed to run the application is built in, including the
HTTP stack,
– It is designed around Dynamic Scripting, REST, Rich Web Interfaces,
AJAX, and Feeds corresponding to Web 2.0 concepts.
– Application logic is created in one of two scripting languages:
Groovy, for people that prefer Java.
PHP for existing PHP programmers. The PHP runtime is provided
directly in the WebSphere sMash.
– It empowers developers to build applications directly on the Web with a
Web interface, and compose applications by wiring together REST
services.
For more information about Project Zero, see the following Web page:
http://www.projectzero.org/
For more information about WebSphere sMash, see the following Web page:
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/smash/
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