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oomkiller
Hmm I'd like to see JRuby running on app engine. Who else would?
charlesju
Ditto X 1 million.

Does anyone know is this is possible?

peter123
if their runtime is standards-based, I don't see why not.
pufuwozu
I wonder if it will run all Java bytecode. Scala and Clojure would be great.

Plus PHP (via Quercus) would convert a lot of developers.

Edit: looks like it should!

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/runtime.html

  App Engine runs your Java web application using a Java 6
  JVM in a safe "sandboxed" environemnt. App Engine invokes
  your app's servlet classes to handle requests and prepare
  responses in this environment.
jonursenbach
I'd much rather have native PHP support than have to run PHP through an unnecessary layer of Java. Thanks but no thanks.
felixmar
Microsoft's Azure has support for native PHP with FastCGI.
icey
I never do this but...

Why was this downmodded so much? I don't get it. Wanting to have native PHP support seems like a perfectly reasonable wish.

[Edit: Now it seems out of context, but the parent was at -2 when I posted this]

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jli
people working on appengine really want java? Isn't write webapps in java unproductive? I would figure developers would rather have ruby,php instead.
ordinaryman
people working on appengine really want java?

After more than 8 years of coding in Java, I had to pick up Python (and Django) so as to start using GAE for my startup.

Now, looking at those sample code in Java (and JSP) and the related XML configurations for GAE, I don't think I want to go back to Java - unless I am paid to do so, say for services.

tptacek
The word "Java" is misleading; it's really the JVM, which means most of the mainstream web programming languages, in their JVM versions.
bad_user
JRuby is in good shape, you can deploy Rails on it.

And besides, there are many people with investments in Java already. I think this is a pretty good choice.

Now, if they also added Mono (.NET) that would be great.

schtog
Google adding support for Microsoft tools?
axod
Try writing a high throughput webapp in ruby or php, then come back.

Java is orders of magnitude easier to scale.

danw
Languages don't scale.
tll
Fortunately Java is not a language but a runtime + library + language. And it scales great :-)
bk
HN etiquette note:

The parent post is neither a troll, spam, or off-topic, and thus should not be downvoted.

A simple "no upvote" would suffice. If you disagree add a substantive rebuttal to your "no upvote".

zmimon
How do you define troll? A blanket statement labelling an entire technology with a pejorative without any justification or explanation seems fairly trollish to me.

However both of us are certainly off-topic and should be downvoted heavily :-)

catch404
Promo page isn't loading for me - Does that mean I missed out?
jaaron
Did the same thing to me.

I went back to the front page console and there was a link at the top of the page.

bonaldi
Coo, I wonder if WebObjects can be levered into this, then.
briansmith
The interesting thing is that this is based on some of the standard Java EE APIs, unlike the Python edition, which was nearly 100% proprietary.

Unfortunately, there's still very poor support for HTTPS. The limited HTTPS support is what keeps me from deploying any applications on it.