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IBM Hopes Zero Becomes Hero

Incubator project focuses on creation of dynamic Web applications

By Jeff Feinman

July 30, 2007 — Agile development has been around for a while, but IBM is trying something new with Project Zero, an incubator project focused on dynamic Web applications. The Project Zero—as in “zero unnecessary overhead”—environment includes a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP, with APIs optimized for producing REST-style services, integration mashups and rich Web interfaces.

IBM has created an online Web community at projectzero.org, where developers can download the platform and help develop Project Zero with criticisms and suggestions. The company calls the process “Community-Driven Commercial Development” and will eventually provide members with the means to share reusable components while retaining ownership.

Project Zero has been tested with Microsoft’s Windows XP and Novell’s SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 10, although it may run on other operating systems. Developers are encouraged to use Eclipse as an IDE for Zero applications, and download sample applications from the project’s site. Zero applications can connect to any database that is accessible with Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) drivers.

Jerry Cuomo, CTO of IBM WebSphere and IBM fellow, explained that Project Zero uses scripting as a way to write applications with quick turnaround. He argued that the level of understanding required to build object-oriented code makes the resulting application useful over time but hard to develop quickly. Scripting may not be elegant, but it can get the application done, he said.

Project Zero’s source code will be publicly available, though IBM will not release it under an open source license. IBM has taken some criticism from developers because of this, Cuomo admitted. However, he continued, the company is bringing its development processes into the open, and he pointed to the social and collaborative aspects of Web 2.0 development as an asset to be nurtured.

“A lot of people associate ‘open’ with ‘free’…there’s a whole mentality and development interaction around building things in the open,” Cuomo noted. The business side of things has to be kept in mind, he conceded, but opening up the process itself through blogs and wikis has proved beneficial. “Depending on the technology and what our objectives are, we’ll license accordingly.”

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