Is it your budget allocated for the project, the developer’s team size or their capabilities to meet your business requirements. Well, you would be amazed to know that these all are secondary parameters to be considered. It’s nothing more than your short and long term goals and overall expectations from the project that makes you choose the language that is fit for your project. Despite hundreds of programming languages available in the market today, very few are on the list of languages that can really help in making your enterprise project a true success.
Java and JavaScript are the two most popular, well-known, dominant programming languages from the ocean that holds the crown for the most widely used programming languages for enterprise application development.
When it comes to the development of any website, software or application, the whole is categorized into two major parts, namely, frontend development (which is also called client-side) and backend development (which is also called as server-side). Thus, for the complete development cycle, you need to select two different languages. However, choosing any language which is viable at both frontend and backend can be a plus but that should satisfy your business goals.
JavaScript:
If you are looking for a cool boy for your project then JavaScript is the key to unlock the door. It is the most widely used language for designing interactive frontend enterprise applications.
JavaScript being compatible with all the browsers now can also live outside the browsers. It decides the behavior of any web page on the occurrence of any event, specifically on the client-side of the web. However, It also allows you the development on the server-side through Node.js, which is a JavaScript runtime environment.
Business Benefits of adopting JavaScript as the front-end development language for Enterprise Application Development:
- Fast and Responsive: One of the key challenges with modern web development is network latency. End users want to have the best, fastest experience, JavaScript allows your application to do more with fewer bytes from the server, resulting in low network latency which in turn improves end-user experience.
- Universally used for Client-side Scripting: No matter which technology you are using for server-side scripting, JavaScript can be used to provide a rich frontend. Since it is used for client-side scripting, it reduces server load by validating data on the browser itself rather than sending it off to the server, thus only the selected segments of any page needs to be reloaded, in case of any discrepancy, making it one of the reasons to gain popularity among the languages for enterprise application development.
- No compilation required: The browser interprets JavaScript as it HTML tags thus preventing the need of any compiler for the compilation process.
- Platform Independent: JavaScript doesn’t require any installation or configuration process, it is a free tech to work with. Any JavaScript enabled browser can easily understand and interpret JavaScript code.
To conclude, some of Javascript frameworks for rich front-end development are Angular.js, Vue.js, React and for the rich back-end development use Node.js, Express.js as the key players.
Java
Surviving in the programming industry from more than 20 years, Java is considered as the most stable and highly adopted language for building enterprise web applications. Apart from many of the tools that have come to the market for solving enterprise issues, Java remains at the top of the list. What makes Java so unique that it is everyone thinks of Java first when it comes to enterprise app development? Let’s see the benefits of using Java
Business benefits of using Java as a programming language for building your Enterprise Web Application:
- Short Learning Curve: Java follows the common knowledge of C & C++ with some changes thus allowing developers to learn quickly making a shorter learning curve and its open-source nature adds value to learning.
- Huge User Community: Since, Java is ruling the industry from more than 20 years now, it has a huge user community and is helping enterprises in gaining a competitive advantage through its open-source code and wide user community that it holds.
- Low Maintenance Cost and Faster Processing: As compared to Windows and Mac servers Java is cost-effective to set up and maintain, it can run on any hardware infra, reducing technical demands. It supports multiple platforms and devices thus is well known for high cross-platform compatibility, making it more suitable and easy to adopt for enterprise applications.
- Vast Array of Libraries: Java supports millions of Libraries and codes which is the basic building block for any enterprise solution.
Hope you get an Idea why an entrepreneur Love Java and why he should adopt Java for his next enterprise project.