(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Celebrating its first birthday, Google App Engine (appengine.google.com) presented Java runtime support as a gift to developers, combining the simplicity of Google App Engine with the power and flexibility of the Java platform.
Much to the pleasure of developers who do not use Python, according to Google’s announcement this week, Google’s inclusion of a second programming language has been careful to leverage the App Engine infrastructure (and by extension Google’s infrastructure) as much as possible without sacrificing compatibility with existing Java standards and tools.
“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,” Google App Engine software engineers Don Schwarz and Toby Reyelts posted in a Google blog. “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.”
Google App Engine now supports Java standards such as the Java Servlet API, JDO and JPA, javax.cache, and javax.mail. It also provides a secure sandbox, powerful enough to test run code safely on Google’s servers, with the ability to break abstractions at will.
The improved Google App Engine, however, is not in general release; instead, the first 10,000 interested developers will be given an early look at Java language support. They are invited to sign up online.
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