Google AppEngine Java Support Launches

[oomkiller]

Hmm I'd like to see JRuby running on app engine. Who else would?

[pufuwozu]

I wonder if it will run all Java bytecode. Scala and Clojure would be great.

Plus PHP (via Quercus) would convert a lot of developers.

Edit: looks like it should!

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/runtime.html

  App Engine runs your Java web application using a Java 6
  JVM in a safe "sandboxed" environemnt. App Engine invokes
  your app's servlet classes to handle requests and prepare
  responses in this environment.

[spooneybarger]

In that case, you will want to read:

http://olabini.com/blog/tag/gae/

which includes:

* Dynamic languages on Google App Engine - an overview * JRuby on Rails on Google App Engine * Java on Google App Engine

[peter123]

that would be very cool.

[jcapote]

Ditto.

[charlesju]

Ditto X 1 million.

Does anyone know is this is possible?

[mattdennewitz]

and cron!

[alecco]

Google's blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/

[briansmith]

The interesting thing is that this is based on some of the standard Java EE APIs, unlike the Python edition, which was nearly 100% proprietary.

Unfortunately, there's still very poor support for HTTPS. The limited HTTPS support is what keeps me from deploying any applications on it.

[catch404]

Promo page isn't loading for me - Does that mean I missed out?

[jaaron]

Did the same thing to me.

I went back to the front page console and there was a link at the top of the page.

[marbletiles]

Coo, I wonder if WebObjects can be levered into this, then.

[jli]

people working on appengine really want java? Isn't write webapps in java unproductive? I would figure developers would rather have ruby,php instead.

[ordinaryman]

people working on appengine really want java?

After more than 8 years of coding in Java, I had to pick up Python (and Django) so as to start using GAE for my startup.

Now, looking at those sample code in Java (and JSP) and the related XML configurations for GAE, I don't think I want to go back to Java - unless I am paid to do so, say for services.

[tptacek]

The word "Java" is misleading; it's really the JVM, which means most of the mainstream web programming languages, in their JVM versions.

[bk]

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[axod]

Try writing a high throughput webapp in ruby or php, then come back.

Java is orders of magnitude easier to scale.

[bad_user]

JRuby is in good shape, you can deploy Rails on it.

And besides, there are many people with investments in Java already. I think this is a pretty good choice.

Now, if they also added Mono (.NET) that would be great.