Do you follow the trends?  While Java still holds a commanding lead in the general-purpose language, its important to note that specific-purpose languages (such as Ruby [read: domain-specific language) continue to grow in importance and relevancy, as shown below.

Why?  Because flexibility and customization still matter – a lot.  Read our take on the importance of DSLs for delivering RIAs and Web Services here and here and here!  And let us know what you think.

Speak with you soon.  DC

Skyway Software, the expert in simplifying software delivery, is listed as a key Composite Application vendor in Web and User Interface Technologies, 2008, as published by Gartner in their annual Hype Cycle report. This Hype Cycle report covers a broad collection of Web-oriented technologies and methodologies and provides Gartner’s predictions for the most important technologies during the next 12 months based on several key technology characteristics, including maturity, adoption, and impact.

According to Gartner, composite application techniques and methodologies will see mainstream adoption soon (many already are here, including Skyway Builder) and their business impact will be high.

“Our listing in Gartner’s Composite Applications category highlights our expertise in model-centric delivery of Rich Internet Application and Web Services,” says Sean Walsh, President and CEO of Skyway Software, “and our customers, including The Hershey Company and the Federal Aviation Administration, currently use Skyway Builder to develop, test, and deploy new applications – and to extend existing applications – more quickly and more accurately than ever before.”

We are very pleased by Gartner’s ongoing recognition of Skyway Software.

Speak with you soon.  DC

Another great day at the Skyway Software booth.  Although it was a shorter day, I guess the chance to win an iPod (see our first winner, who built a Skyway Lego in only 9 sec) and hear more about the Skyway Cup ($25,000 prize for developing the winning RIA or Skyway Builder extension) may have helped?  Seriously, the interest in our end-to-end modeling tool for building RIAs and Web Services is growing and we are very pleased with the direct responses from almost 100 developers on this day alone.

And the monkey in the 2nd photo?  Well, perhaps more info on that in a future post

Speak with you soon.

Day one was a resounding success!  No shortage of visitors to the Skyway Booth to see a live demonstration of Skyway Builder in action.  Over 600 Java developers stopped by to engage with our Technical Team and learned how Skyway Builder is the only end-to-end modeling tool (Eclipse plugin) for building, testing, and delivering Rich Internet Applications and Web Services for the Spring Framework and Spring MVC.  RIAs are a huge focus of the event and we are well positioned on that front, so hopefully we can get the other 14,400 attendees to view our solution during Days 2 and 3 ……talking about our $40,000 Skyway Cup developer contest should help us reach that goal!

Our partners also are presenting very relevant session information:  Spring will be talking about app security in the enterprise (and the release of their SpringSource Application Platform among other things) and Eclipse will be talking about the cross-platform deployment capabilities for apps created in Eclipse (and their party).

Im expecting a Day 2 post from one of the Skyway Teammates, but in the event that they cant get to it, its clear that Sun has a large Team scribing/feeding on the other happenings out there, including the Duke’s Choice Awards (is OpenOffice really KILLING it like GoogleDocs???) and the Blu-ray partnership (although Id be so much more interested in the Beatles anthology instead of Niel Young).

Have you checked it out?  What do you think?