Google App Engine to Support Java Now?

October 19, 2008 by Stephan Schmidt

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According to this blog post:

“In the recent event Google Developers Day, Bangalore, the Keynote speaker Prasad Ram said that Google Appengine will now support Java. [...] “Java”, said the other speaker, “was chosen based on the community feedback.”

Splendid! I hope this includes Scala somehow. This would at last be an easy way to deploy Java web applications, one thing up to now only PHP could claim (and to a lesser amount Ruby and Python).

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Daniel Spiewak

October 20th, 2008

If you can deploy Java, you can deploy Scala. As David Pollak says: it’s just another library. Compile your Scala sources using scalac, JAR up the classes using whatever you please and then distribute with the scala-library.jar file. Any vanilla JVM should be able to run the result.

stephan

October 20th, 2008

Well it lloks like there are restrictions and some people are not happy with the Python installation in Appengine. Because it seems it’s not vanilla Python.

What people wrote somewhere else:

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