Java Development Tools Market Trends

While Sun Microsystems provides software development kits, tutorials and developer documentation free of charge for developers using its Java programming language, full-time developers frequently need more than this rudimentary level of support. XML processing still remains a key focus for Java development, and an area where Sun is providing a great deal of support in the form of community standards being adopted by commercial vendors and open source developers alike. As applications move away from the desktop, web-based application servers are becoming a key feature in the Java landscape. Continuing the shift toward web-based computing, Java is playing a key role in peer-to-peer web services, widely believed to be the next big platform.