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LongJump platform as a service now supports Java


By Alex Handy


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September 25, 2008 —  The idea behind a platform as a service is to take all the standard application tooling and hosting needs, box them into a ready-made, pluggable service, and attach them to whatever application a developer can build. Salesforce.com has already offered such a system through its Apex language.

LongJump today announced that its SaaS platform supports direct Java programming, a capability that the company says leapfrogs Salesforce in appeal.

It wasn't easy to enable developers to write Java directly into their systems, said Pankaj Malviya, CEO and founder of LongJump. The toughest part was figuring out “how to make sure someone is not able to take all the system resources. Once you create an artifact, how do you make sure it's continuously following the model and not allowing them to access someone else's data? We wrote our own class loader to handle this.”

Now that the hard part is done, Malviya said, LongJump saves application developers time by handling the standard necessities right off the bat. “If you take a Java EE server and decide to write an application, you're going to spend an enormous amount of time doing things like developing authentication methods against LDAP [Lightweight Directory Access Protocol], or a dashboard creator. [Now] all those basic things needed today in the collaborative environment are available out of the box. As a developer, I can focus on the core problem.”

The LongJump development toolkit gives developers an Eclipse plug-in for writing directly into LongJump's system. Developers can also code inside their Web browser, since LongJump includes an IDE of sorts on its site. Developers using the Eclipse plug-in can create code while away from the Internet, then upload it later.

Standard pricing for LongJump application hosting is US$20 per user; the development tools are free. Standard Java is supported, Malviya said, but extensions such as Spring or Struts are not.




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