Level: Introductory

Kunal Mittal (kunal@kunalmittal.com), Executive IT Director, Sony Pictures Entertainment

27 May 2008

Any software development life cycle must be properly organized before you can expect to successfully execute a project. This is also true of Web 2.0, where a well-planned life cycle will let you realize the vision of building Web services in shorter development cycles, allow quick testing and deployment, and provide for service versioning. In this article, get to know the software development life cycle for Web 2.0-based applications.

Web 2.0 application-development processes need to be more agile than standard development methodologies allow for. In a Web 2.0 world, your users are going to be more agile in their thinking, will want things more quickly, and are getting used to rapid change. The role of Web 2.0-enabled content-management tools is becoming clear. Here's an example of what I mean:

Look at Joomla, Drupal, or other such tools—rapid development environments that allow semi-technical folks to quickly put up a Web 2.0-based community site with all sorts of functionality, including blogs, forums, surveys, Google gadgets, RSS feeds, and even multimedia content. These tools also allow focused campaigns and ads to generate revenue and have several traditional e-commerce capabilities. The functionality comes prebuilt and prepackaged, and minimal effort is required to get the site up and running. As the developer responsible for providing this underlying functionality, however, you need to configure fine-grained security and have complete control over the user interface (UI). If you're a savvy developer, you can write new plug-ins and extend the functionality of these platforms.

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