Application Development Stars Of 2006 – NetBeans, Backbase, Blaze, Klocwork, JTest, Dojo and Flex

InfoWorld tries to find the best application development software of 2006. Software that will have a major impact on software development in 2007.

Andrew Binstock in his report about software development trends for 2006, says “Software development continued
to move toward simplicity in 2006.
Most evident was the widespread
adoption of SOA…”

On frameworks he adds “Frameworks such as Spring and
Ruby on Rails continued gaining in
popularity and commercial support, as
developers and their managers came
to accept the view that many business
apps don