XYLUS: A virtualized programming environment

XYLUS is a virtualized programming environment that addresses coder's mobility, hassle free coding environment, project management and team coordination. It aims to provide a coder or a team of coders to create, manage, develop, compile, execute and share a complete or partial set of development projects on the web without having any development and associated tools. This is mainly achieved through developing a virtualized integrated development environment completely functional on a browser, a web server hosting the virtual machine environment, a set of web services to carry out the necessary communication and synchronization, and a developer portal as the focal point of the whole environment. In this paper we describe the main architecture, working, related issues and challenges of the system. We have tested this concept and architecture on developing projects for .NET platform with C# as the base language. We observe that such environments offer plenty of useful and charming features to the developers with the some burden and sacrifice of flexibility.