[infinispan-dev] Infinispan and Google app engine

[Manik Surtani]

On 1 Dec 2009, at 08:36, Bela Ban wrote:

> 
> 
> Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:
>> Manik and I went back and forth and decided to put this sub project on a
>> back burner at this moment. Even though we could accommodate GAE's
>> thread restriction it turns out that GAE sandbox restrictions involve
>> several apis that we use (JAXB, JMX, JNDI among others) and retrofitting
>> Infinispan into this tight sandbox would be a headache. There is a
>> strong comunity push to unrestrict these API and it seems pressures from
>> community would eventually be successful.
> 
> +1.
> 
> I don't think GAE will be as successful as for example EC2 if they only 
> support a subset of the JDK libraries. And +1 to build up pressure on 
> them to support the full JDK libs.

Yes, this pressure will be inevitable.

> Currently, it seems Google only wants to host apps, not middleware (they 
> do that themselves)...

Absolutely - GAE is a PaaS.  That doesn't make them any less relevant or important though - if anything, more important (easier end-user experience, simpler deployment and maintenance -> more popular in the long run?).

Cheers
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Manik Surtani
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