It's obvious that our way of thinking is changing with the upcoming of mobile devices. But even more interestingly, the classical development of web application is also changing. For several years now, there has been no real innovation in how to implement web applications. We saw JSPs, then JSF, and then several AJAX-enhanced solutions. But now, with the HMTL5 movement, new development is grabbing new ideas, and developers apply the HTML5 way of thinking everywhere—making our software a bit more consistent.

Currently, we see a strong increase in customer plans to additionally address mobile channels. We will expect the mobile requirement to be a default one for every piece of software we develop— and that time is not far away. Passionate evangelists are shouting loud that for several use cases, a "mobile first" strategy would be even better.

Therefore, it's indispensable that we build knowledge on architectural and technical problems that arise while coping...