Palm has released Project Ares, a new development environment for creating Palm webOS applications.

It  is now available to all Palm developers at ares.palm.com. Ares is the first complete set of integrated mobile development tools hosted entirely in the browser , making it even easier and faster to create Palm webOS apps. With its drag-and-drop interface builder, Ares dramatically lowers the barriers for web developers who haven¹tpreviously developed mobile apps.

Ares streamlines the entire app development process, from design, to coding, to debugging, to app submission. You can preview apps right in the browser, and--with the Palm Mojo SDK installed--it takes just one click in Ares to launch your app in the emulator or on a webOS device. When you're ready to distribute your app, one more click lets you package and download your app for submission to the App Catalog
 
All interested developers are invited to try out the public beta of Ares. Just register for a free Palm developer community account and log in at ares.palm.com, where you¹ll find documentation and a getting-started tutorial.