Red Hat's JBoss Application Server team is partnering with and Google's Cloud Platform team o create a new Java programming framework for cloud applications.
Dubbed "CapeDwarf," Gartner analyst Yefim Natis said the project has great potential as it is being implemented by a "cloud native" and an "enterprise native." The open-source initiative aims to create an implementation of the Google App Engine (GAE) API that allows Java developers to deploy their applications on Red Hat's JBoss app server, unmodified. This implementation will use existing JBoss APIs (Infinispan, JGroups, PicketLink, HornetQ, etc.)
CapeDwarf is still under development, but it currently runs on top of JBoss on Red Hat's OpenShift or on Google's Compute Engine. The CapeDwarf project is being hosted by the JBoss Community and on GitHub. Beta versions are available now for download from the JBoss web site. The project source code is being licensed under an Apache License 2.0.
As the project website sums it up: "The ultimate goal of the CapeDwarf project is to fully implement all the APIs of the Google App Engine." For complete story see here
