US Patent 7890926 System and method for application development and deployment

The invention pertains to a system and method of application development on a web portal. In one embodiment, the user logs on to a web portal and is provided with various tools to choose from to write an application, compile the application and then test the application. After completing the development process of the application, the user could either choose to store the application on the web portal, thereby using the services of the web portal or download the application on to his own computer. The user is also given the option to deploy the application from the web portal, the portal being used as a server for servicing multiple clients, thereby using the server resources during deployment and avoiding the high cost of infrastructure.