How are HTML XML and Java affecting business applications on

How are HTML, XML, and Java affecting business applications on the Web? Give examples. What other scripts and languages (i.e. Visual C++) do you use in your current (or previous) work situation?

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Today in the era of globalisation and technology and the race to represent ourselves to the world is growing very rapidly. To make ourselves be a part of market, every industry or institution nowadays has a website. And the basic structure of the website is being formed with help of HTML only. HTML has been introduced in 1990s and it acted like a boon on modern industry. At present E-commerce (selling goods online, like Amazon, Ebay) is one of the rising trend and is growing with good pace, providing a very large part to country’s GDP, and even there is rise in jobs as well — for developing websites, and the base for each website is HTML. HTML is used with CSS, Java Script and many more, thus providing an interactive website. Thus HTML has a very positive impact in growing business.

XML is much more flexible than HTML, it tells the system that how the data should be organized, and it allows the user to create its own tags, which make it easier to use. Since XML provides sophisticated data coding to Web sites, it helps companies integrate their information flows. Just by creating a single set of XML tags for all the data, information (especially corporate) can be shared among Web sites, and other back-end systems very easily. When a company sells a good or service to another company, a great deal of information needs to be exchanged—about prices, terms, specifications, delivery schedules, and so on. HTML’s one-size-fits-all nature makes such exchanges difficult, if not impossible, over the Internet. With XML, all the necessary information can be shared electronically, allowing complex deals to be closed without any human intervention. Thus XML has a very large impact on businesses. For example, Ariba and Commerce One, already rely on XML to automatically match buyers and sellers. But, since it is highly flexible, standardization is very difficult, hence it is many a times a risk to business and companies while sharing information.

Java is the language of business applications, used at basically every single financial services institution for back end systems, portals, trading systems, market engines, online banking, etc. It\'s the primary language of development for telco systems, ecommerce (eBay, Amazon), insurance applications. Even most of the desktop applications nowadays being present uses Java. All the Android phones, or we can say Android itself is one of the extensions of Java. The largest applications vendors, like SAP, use Java. The cloud that we use for storing data, and online computations are all part of Java. Java can be used in developing dynamic websites, and can be integrated with many other scripting languages. Thus, of all, Java has most impact on business.

Other scripts and languages being used are — PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java Script, CSS, JQuery, C, and many more.