VMware Teams with Google Over Cloud Apps Development

VMware and Google have recently announced that they are collaborating to develop a line of products addressed at enterprise developers, helping them set up, manage and deploy apps in the cloud.

As they had already announced, the two companies have declared that they aim to provide developers with complex tools they could use on any platform and device.

The partnership between VMware and Google seems to prove that cloud computing is the technology of the future, and that is requires better automation and improved development cycles.

The results of this collaboration will become available within the two weeks and they will include Spring Roo and Google Web Toolkit, Spring Insight and Google Speed Tracer, SpringSource Tool Suite and Google Plugin for Eclipse.

The next step in this project will be to focus on mobile application support as well as accessing data in the cloud. Consequently, VMware will get the capability to deploy an SQL-based Spring application on Google App Engine for Business.

Since it was integrated with the Spring platform, Google App Engine has received numerous improvements during an interval of several months.

The developers in charge with this project are using the platform for launching Java-based tools onto the network and as SaaS apps.

These are the new utilities that will be part of the outcome of the VMware-Google collaboration, as listed on a dedicated blog post:

· Spring Roo and Google Web Toolkit: Spring Roo is an application development tool. It now works with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for developers to build browser apps in enterprise production environments. These GWT powered applications leverage modern browser technologies such as AJAX and HTML5 for use on both desktops and mobile browsers.
· Spring Insight and Google Speed Tracer: Google's Speed Tracer with VMware's Spring Insight performance tracing technology enable end to end performance visibility into cloud applications. This integration provides a view into the web application performance, improving the end-user experience by optimizing the client side as well as the server side.
· SpringSource Tool Suite and Google Plugin for Eclipse: The integration of SpringSource Tool Suite version 2.5 and Google Plugin for Eclipse allows developers to build and maintain large scale, web-based, enterprise applications. It puts tools that were previously only available when building desktop and server solutions in the hands of those building web apps.