VMware vCloud Blog

Today, live at Google I/O, VMware and Google announced a joint initiative to support the development and deployment of Java-based applications in the cloud. This announcement follows the very successful announcement of a joint partnership between VMware and Salesforce.com to launch an open, enterprise Java cloud service – VMforce – based on Spring and vCloud/vSphere technologies. 

VMware and Google have a shared vision to make it easy to build, run, and manage applications for the cloud, and to do so in a way that makes applications portable across clouds. 

With this joint initiative, Spring becomes the preferred Java programming model for Google’s public cloud offering – Google App Engine. Additionally, the two companies have been working to integrate Google’s GWT (Google Web Toolkit) technology with the Spring framework and development tools, to enable Spring developers to easily and rapidly build rich internet applications. 

For more details, view a replay of the webcast from the Google conference here.  For a general description of the announcement, and significance of this announcement, please take a look at our blog.

For those interested in more of the technology details, check out Rod Johnson’s blog.

Simply put, the significance of these announcements in combination are:

* VMware is bringing to market an OpenPaaS stack (i.e. an open and portable environment for cloud-based application development and deployment).

* VMware is partnering with the industry leading cloud vendors to bring this OpenPaaS offering to market.

* Spring is the dominant Java programming model for the development and deployment of Java applications for the new era of cloud computing, whether internal (private cloud) or external (public cloud).

* Only VMware is offering its customers, and the market, a modern application development and deployment environment for portable, cloud-enabled and optimized applications.