On Thursday, November 5th 2009, at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco. Palm demonstrated “Ares”, a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications. It will be coming to the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi smartphones by the end of this year through the WebOS developer site.

According to Palm, Ares will give developers a faster way write WebOS applications through a drag-and-drop interface. Senior Vice President of Application Software and Services at Palm; Michael Abbott said that Ares It’s designed to help Web developers make the leap to becoming mobile developers.

According to Abbott, Ares won’t require any downloads or configuration. And “the environment includes debugging and a mechanism for developers to share libraries and APIs (application programming interfaces).” A Palm engineer created a search application for the Flickr Web photo site in a live demonstration at the conference, just to show how easy this new tool will be.

[Via PCWorld]