8 Things to Consider Before Selecting a Java Application Development Company

With technological advancement showing up rapidly and changing the course of action of various industries, businesses are seeking all measures to stay atop. The digitization calls for expert team, brilliant idea, technological upgrades, and abundance of resources that fulfill their need for growth and success. Java has been the most in-demand programming language for all application development today. Mobile app development or website application development relies heavily on the knowledge of java developers or development team. Businesses seek expert Java application development team to build their planned applications into reality for end users. While all is thought through, the major unnerving process is to look for the best Java application development partner or company. In the blog today, we will share a few tips with you that will guide you in finalizing the perfect partner for your Java application project. Let’s get started to build your own Java application development company.

1. Categorize the Requirements

Before you plan to hire a Java development company, you must prioritize your objectives and requirements to elucidate to the company. This is the base step before heading for the first meeting as the vision, mission and objective would make your confidence about your expectations and also it would be easy to explain it to the application development company as well. Few questions to ask yourself are:

• The objective of meeting and partnering with a development company
• Existing process and expected process
• List of features
• Technology trends and more

2. The expertise of Java Application Development Company

It is also important to know the expertise of the development company with whom you are thinking of partnership. It happens sometimes that developers do not possess knowledge of industry-specific domain knowledge which may be a problem for your industry. Thus, before finalizing the company, make sure to have a check on the expertise of the company on your industry requirements.

3. Portfolio

A well-established Java application development company is bound to have a portfolio for their future prospective clients. This is a golden opportunity for you to find out if the deliverables are something that you are looking forward to or somewhere near. Simply by looking at the portfolio, you can easily see their clientele list and decide whether you should go with the company or not.

4. Knowledge of Major Java Technologies

The trend of technology never fades and never ends. It keeps on evolving with newer trends and technologies. Same is the case with Java programming language. It is essential for you to affirm that java application development company where developers are expert and aware of the latest Java technologies, if not all, at least the major ones. Few to mention are:

• Proficiency in programming in JSP, JQuery, JDBC, JSON/REST, JMS, Spring, JSF, EJB, MongoDB, MySQL, and Oracle
• ORM solutions such as MyBatis and Hibernate.
• Architectural expertise – GWT, MVC, Appfuse, service-oriented architecture, enterprise service bus, Struts, distributed n-tier architecture, Apache Wicket, GOF design patterns, distributed transactions management, and Spring MVC.
• Enterprise driven apps – RMI, Enterprise Java Beans, JNDI, Java Message Beans, distributed transactions, and Java Persistence API.
• Other tools and technologies such as IntelliJ Idea, Eclipse, and MyEclipse.

5. Dedicated Team for Your Project

Before selecting the Java application development team, there are another few factors that need to be taken into consideration. You need to seek that company which agrees to align a dedicated team of developers to work on your project. This is the most essential criteria as not having a dedicated team often leads to situations and challenges like delay in the delivery of project, hindrances in team understanding, information manhandling and more. Thus, make sure to have a defined team specifically for your project.

6. Project Confidentiality

Every idea is critical and important to the business. It's all about creative ideas that businesses are trying to pitch to application development companies. Thus, it’s important to ensure that the company with which you are partnering keeps your project detail confidential until it is launched to the end users. Data security and project confidentiality is the key to a successful project and needs to be taken care of at utmost priority. This can be taken care by signing documents to ensure the secrecy of the project.

7. Java Certifications

Another thing which you can consider before finalizing the java application development company is to check if the company have necessary java certifications like Oracle Certified Professional, Associate Java SE Programmer, Oracle Certified Master Java SE 6, EE Business Component, Web component, Web services, Mobile enterprise Developer and more. Al these certifications assure that your project is in expert hands.

8. Cost & Maintenance

Last things post which you can finalize the selection of development company is to talk about the costing of your application development and maintenance of the application post-launch. These two factors are the last resort for finalization of the company. Costing should not be high but also quality has to be maintained in the cost finalized. Maintenance of the application ensures that it keeps up to the changing trends without any failure.

Final Call

Wrapping up, a Java application development company plays an important role in rolling our businesses applications to the end users. Playing an integral part in application development and roll out demands some out of the box features from the company. And hence business needs to be sure on factors like certifications, expertise, domain knowledge, etc. to attain success before finalizing the company.

Author

Siya Carla is the Solution Consultant at Finoit Technologies, a leading custom software development company which provides unique web design and mobile app development services. By creating interactive mobile apps for 450+ customers across the globe, Finoit enjoys a great reputation as a prominent mobile app development company.