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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Putting the dream of an easy-to-use, web-based application development environment on hold, Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com) has announced that it is suspending its web 2.0 app development and hosting service, Zembly (www.zembly.com), at the end of the month.
According to a good-bye message posted Tuesday, the Zembly website and service will go offline on November 30. Once the site is gone, all user-developed applications and services on Zembly will be unavailable. Users will have to migrate their apps to other hosting services. Also, without the help of Zembly, users will have to obtain API keys for their apps, and may have to rework their code so it is not reliant on the Zembly Client Library.
"More than three years ago, we started this project with the goal of making it easy to create next-generation web apps," reads Zembly's statement. "Our original tagline was 'Build the web, using the web,' and the ideas we were incubating around platform-mediated web applications, web API mashups, and social programming were brand new."
Sun suggests that in place of Zembly, individuals can use the NetBeans IDE (www.netbeans.org) as a new framework and community to create web apps using bundled APIs, or for contributing a Web API for use by other NetBeans developers.
According to a report from The Register, Zembly is among Sun's projects that have been unfortunately starved of development and support resources as Sun redeploys its engineers to other initiatives. While Zembly will no longer be a part of the web 2.0 landscape, its contributions, however, will not be forgotten.
"Thank you to everyone who's been with us through the ups and downs," Zembly stated. "It's heartening to see that many of the best ideas pioneered in zembly have started to appear elsewhere. With your support, we're proud to have contributed to the DNA of the web."
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