Google has announced it is adding Java to the languages developers can use to build applications in its cloud-based Google App Engine .Google said it delivered Java support for developers working on large projects and enterprise systems whose needs were not met by Python alone. Google is giving access to the Java support to the first 10,000 developers to sign up for it.
At its Google Campfire One event, Google celebrated the first birthday of its Google App Engine cloud solution and gave developers a first look at the new Java support the company has added to the platform.
Google Campfire One was held on the evening of April 7 at the Google
headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., exactly one year to the day that
Google announced the beta release of its Google App Engine platform for
building and hosting web applications
on Google's infrastructure. Google initially released App Engine with
support only for Python; however one of the features most requested by
developers was java support. Google has made good on that.
In an April 7 blog post, Don Schwarz and Toby Reyelts, Software Engineers, Google App Engine Team, said:
"When the two of us first heard the promise of Google App Engine, we
realized that the chance to bring this kind of simplicity to Java
developers was too good of an opportunity to pass up. When App Engine
launched publicly, we were excited to see that Java language support
was both the first and the most popular request filed in the Issue
Tracker. We were also thrilled to see that this enthusiasm extended
beyond the Java language to all of the various programming languages
that have been implemented on top of the Java virtual machine -- not to
mention all of the popular web frameworks and libraries."
In addition, Schwarz and Reyelts said Google is "giving the first
10,000 interested developers an early look at Java language support, so
please sign up, give it a whirl, and give us lots of feedback.
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