Enterprise Web Development

Preface

This book will help web application developers and software architects pick the right strategy for developing cross-platform applications that run on a variety of desktop computers as well as mobile devices. The primary audience is developers from a large organization who need to learn how to develop web applications using the HTML5 stack.

What’s an Enterprise Application?

This book has the word enterprise in its title, and we’ll explain what we consider to be enterprise applications by giving you some examples. Creating a web application that processes orders is not the same as creating a website to publish blogs. Enterprise applications require company-specific workflows, which usually need to be integrated with various internal systems, data sources, and processes.

Google Docs is not an enterprise web application. But Google Search Appliance, which integrates search operations with company documents, databases, processes, and tickets, and provides collaboration is: it integrates the consumer-workforce front office with what the company does (back office).

Google Maps is not an enterprise application. But Google Maps integrated with a company site used by insurance agents to plan their daily route, create scheduling, perform address verification, and use geocoding is.

Just using a web application in a business doesn’t make it an enterprise web application. If you take Gmail as is, it won’t be an enterprise application until you integrate it into another process of your business. ...