LAS VEGAS-The legacy style of enterprise Java application development has given way to a new world of frameworks and modular componentry, according to an expert.

Spring Cloud for Google Cloud Platform 1.0, was developed in collaboration with Pivotal Research to make it easier for developers to build distributed Java applications.

Nokia, with the Mobile Runtime for Java Applications (JRT), is enabling development of Java applications for Symbian 3 devices, Nokia officials said Thursday.