Does AppScale supports Java run time environment

[shradha]

Does AppScale supports Java run time environment.
Plz reply to shradha...@patni.com as well

[Navraj S. Chohan]

We currently do not support Java AppEngine, but are working on it and plan for to support it in a future release.

Thanks for your interest in AppScale,

Navraj

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:59 PM, shradha <shra...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does AppScale supports Java run time environment.
Plz reply to shradha...@patni.com as well

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Navraj S. Chohan
nla...@gmail.com

[Tom Robinson]

Great, I was wondering this myself.

I'm curious, how difficult is it to add new languages/environments? I
haven't looked at the internals of AppScale, but it strikes me as not
being terribly difficult, compared to building the initial AppScale
infrastructure. I could be very mistaken, of course.

Could you briefly describe the steps one would take to add another
language?

-tom

[Chandra Krintz]

Hi Tom

Its straightforward to add new languages (those with frameworks for
building web front-ends easily are best) as the interface to the
backend is very simple. The key is for the language to support
protocol buffers. If it does (many do) then the steps
are to implement the Google App Engine API via calls to the
AppScale backend services. We'll provide details on the
AppScale backend API as part of an upcoming release.

thanks
Chandra

On Sep 17, 1:14 am, Tom Robinson <tlrobin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Great, I was wondering this myself.
>
> I'm curious, how difficult is it to add new languages/environments? I  
> haven't looked at the internals of AppScale, but it strikes me as not  
> being terribly difficult, compared to building the initial AppScale  
> infrastructure. I could be very mistaken, of course.
>
> Could you briefly describe the steps one would take to add another  
> language?
>
> -tom
>
> On Sep 17, 2009, at 12:46 AM, Navraj S. Chohan wrote:
>
> > We currently do not support Java AppEngine, but are working on it  
> > and plan for to support it in a future release.
> > Thanks for your interest in AppScale,
> > Navraj
>

> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:59 PM, shradha <shradh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does AppScale supports Java run time environment.

> > Plz reply to shradha.ambe...@patni.com as well
>
> > --
> > Navraj S. Chohan
> > nlak...@gmail.com

[Kit Plummer]

Tom/Chandra,

I'd be very (very, very) interested in working to get a Ruby
implementation - in order to support Rails and Sinatra specifically.
Although I think this parallels functionality provided by Python, the
userbases are entirely different. I'm currently working with the Army
Research Lab to produce an "innovation platform" which is just a funny
way of saying self-service problem solving. But, one of my
fundamental hangups is the barrier for the "average job" to solve
their problems in a "web-oriented" way is the framework language. We
know from what's happened in the web-space with PHP and Rails that
they are generally the most accessible. The PHP route is simply
solved by virtual hosting (I think). But, Ruby is really being left
to the JRuby route, which imposes quite a bit to the stack, and
learning curve. Anywho...

Hoping you're thinking the same thing Tom, or did you have another
language path in mind? I'd love to talk more about it, so feel free
to hit me up (kitplummerATgmail.com)

Kit

[Tom Robinson]

I'm actually interested in server-side JavaScript, at the moment, but
Ruby would be great too!

The stack I'm working on (http://narwhaljs.org/) has a very WSGI/Rack-
like interface (http://jackjs.org/). No protocol buffers support yet,
but that's not an impossible problem, of course.

I probably won't have time to work on this stuff for a few months, but
it's good to know it's feasible.

By the way, Kit, have you seen Heroku (http://heroku.com)? It's
similar to AppEngine but for Ruby.

-tom

[Kit Plummer]

Yep, familiar with Heroku, but it won't run on my private cloud. :)

Interesting stuff the server-side Javascript is. Will have to track
that.

Kit

[Chandra Krintz]

I think both Ruby and Javascript front ends would be great for
AppScale -- the more languages the better to broaden the
GAE app developer base and to enable the execution of such
apps in private clouds.

We'll work on easing the transition to new front
ends (providing easy-to-use hooks, instructions, and examples)

as part of an upcoming release.

thanks
Chandra

On Sep 17, 8:26 pm, Kit Plummer <kitplum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yep, familiar with Heroku, but it won't run on my private cloud. :)
>
> Interesting stuff the server-side Javascript is.  Will have to track  
> that.
>
> Kit
>
> On Sep 17, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Tom Robinson wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm actually interested in server-side JavaScript, at the moment, but
> > Ruby would be great too!
>
> > The stack I'm working on (http://narwhaljs.org/) has a very WSGI/Rack-
> > like interface (http://jackjs.org/). No protocol buffers support yet,
> > but that's not an impossible problem, of course.
>
> > I probably won't have time to work on this stuff for a few months, but
> > it's good to know it's feasible.
>

> > By the way, Kit, have you seen Heroku (http://heroku.com)?It's

[George Moschovitis]

> I'm actually interested in server-side JavaScript, at the moment.

That would be great ;-)

-g.