Evaluation of a Web-Based Programming Environment

On most PaaS (Platform as a Service) systems, applications that are developed on a server are executed on the same server. As such, portability of these applications is not considered as is the case with a WebOS. This paper proposes a Web-based Software Development Environment (WSDE) for developing applications. The WSDE provides a web-based development environment for software applications that can be executed on a server, local and/or embedded machine. Thus, it is unnecessary for each developer to install software for developing applications on the local system or to set the environment variables of the local system. With the WSDE, developers can use the same environment via a Web browser anytime, anywhere. Moreover, this paper proposes a renewable system for embedded systems. To develop application programs for embedded systems, application developers have to prepare a software development environment for each target embedded system. The WSDE allows software developers to develop software applications on a server using a virtual machine.