[Building Sakai] Google App Engine now supports Java

[Steven Githens]

It's a good time too, to start pondering the remaining holes in the 
stack that need OSS replacements so we don't have to depend on Google 
The Company down the road.  For at least the Python stack, most of the 
supported app-engine libraries were pretty standard stuff, except for 
like the Datastore.  Some R&D into things like Hypertable (OSS Bigtable 
impl) and other OSS distributed datastores would be sweet.  It would be 
very cool to drop bundles of various Sakai functionality (probably not 
the entire thing we have now) into AppEngine Compatible containers you 
can throw into racks all over the place.

It's very cool too, that they are being awesome and also focusing on the 
JVM as a technology and not just the language.  As noted on the Jython 
Developers list this morning (from the appengine java release notes):

"""

- Jython 2.2 works out of the box.
- Jython 2.5 requires patches which we'll supply until the changes
make it directly into Jython:
  - jython-r5996-patched-for-appengine.jar is the complete jython
binary library, patched for app engine
  - jython-r5996-appengine.patch is the patch file that contains the
source code for the changes
"""

I'm sure there is similar work done from Google for JRuby and other 
things well ( haven't got a chance to read them all myself yet ).

Megacheers!
Steve


Victor Maijer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just read the announcement from Google that the App Engine supports Java.
> http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/04/seriously-this-time-new-language-on-app.html
>
> Are people interested in running Sakai with the App Engine of Google?
> I think this combination offers an interesting model.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Victor Maijer
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