Google App Engine to Support Java Now?
October 19, 2008 by Stephan Schmidt
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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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.