As announced last week, Salesforce.com’s Force.com Development-as-a-Service presents “a new set of development tools and APIs that enable enterprise developers to easily harness the promise of cloud computing. Providing full access to the database, logic and user interface capabilities of the Force.com Platform, Development-as-a-Service unites the productivity of development and IT collaboration tools with the power of Force.com Platform-as-a-Service.”

The announcement is creating some excitement in the world of SaaS, SOA and application development. Force.com Development-as-a-service offers a few native features, such as a metadata application programming interface for accessing database schema, user interface code, and business logic on the Salesforce.com platform.

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