{"id":12326,"date":"2012-10-25T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/application-development-environment\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T12:51:09","slug":"application-development-environment","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/27850\/application-development-environment-ade","title":{"rendered":"Application Development Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_application_development_environment_mean\">What Does Application Development Environment Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>An application development environment (ADE) is the hardware, software and\/or the computing resources required for building software applications. ADE is the composite set of computing resources that provides an interface or application development, testing, deployment, integration, troubleshooting and maintenance services.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_application_development_environment\">Techopedia Explains Application Development Environment<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>An application development environment is primarily the manufacturing unit or the software engineering platform of a software application. Its primary objective is to ensure that it provides comprehensive application development resources, can be integrated with underlying hardware architecture and includes application-wide reporting features.\n<\/p>\n<p>Generally, ADE is used to build enterprise-wide applications that need to be executed and tested on an array of different computing devices and back-end or integrated platforms. 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