In recent years, application development (AD) has come under mounting pressure from business units calling for rapid application development (RAD) and from outsourcers and contractors, as well as from challenges associated with implementing packages and working with systems integrators (SIs). As services-oriented development of applications (SODA) emerges, these pressures will merge to fundamentally reshape AD organizations and how they deliver software functionality. AD tool vendors will face a true paradigm shift; legacy application portfolios will be radically reshuffled; entirely new roles and procedures will emerge around requirements, reuse and quality; and business modeling and rules engines will gain prominence. This Spotlight provides access to some of our forecasts related to these changes and the shape of things to come.		Matt Light Editor-in-Chief Application Development

			Pressure on Application Delivery: Something's Got to Give 4 December 2002 Matt Light  Jim Duggan  In 2003, application development organizations will explore new modes of delivering software for quick business benefit, and pressure is building to find new methods now.

	Some Vendors Will Survive SODA, and Others Won't 25 November 2002 Michael J. Blechar  Nick Jones  Matthew Hotle  Jim Duggan  Long-term, the service-oriented development of applications market will consolidate into a handful of leaders and survivors. As IBM, Microsoft, and one or two other vendors lead the pack, others will drop out of the SODA market.		SODA Requires People, Process and Paradigm Shifts 25 November 2002 Michael J. Blechar  Whether it involves new development, application integration, subscriptions or purchased services, the key to success in service-oriented development of applications will be managing the people, process and paradigm transitions.
	Application Agility: Legacy Reuse or Transformation? 26 November 2002 Dale Vecchio  Although new technologies provide opportunity for new business applications, their cost and risk is revitalizing interest in existing systems. "Good enough" agility can be attained in 2003 through reuse, but not without some effort.		AD Project Management: Requirements Revisited 26 November 2002 Matt Light  AD organizations should sharpen their requirements definition abilities for service-oriented development. The era of chartering projects with half-understood requirements is over.
	AD Cultural Revolution: Services-Oriented Development 27 November 2002 Matthew Hotle  Several key cultural changes must be made in the applications development arena to successfully traverse the change from AD to services deployment.		AD and the Business: Modeling, Rules, Flow and Agility 2 December 2002 Jim Sinur  It's rare that a short-term benefit can be stretched into a strategic position, but using business models with rules will yield benefits all along the way.