Salesforce.com Delivers New Force.com for Google App Engine, Giving Developers New Capabilities for Application Development in C
May 27 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Force.com for Google App Engine connects two of the most popular
cloud computing platforms SAN FRANCISCO, May 27
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com, (NYSE: CRM) the
enterprise cloud computing company, today announced a new version
of Force.com for Google App Engine. Force.com for Google App Engine
provides developers a set of tools and services to bring together
two of the world's leading cloud computing platforms for
application development. Developers can use the new offering to
take advantage of the addition of Java language support in Google
App Engine in their application development projects on Force.com.
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"Developers can harness Google and salesforce.com's real-time cloud
computing infrastructures to build and run their applications,"
said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. "Building on
our work with Google, developers can now take advantage of
increasingly powerful cloud computing capabilities in Force.com and
App Engine resulting in better applications for consumers and the
enterprise." "We're very excited by the reception the App Engine
for Java preview has received in the developer community," said
Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise.
"Bringing together Force.com and the new enhancements to App Engine
will further extend the power and capability of application
development in the cloud for developers worldwide." "We're excited
about the possibilities of bringing together Force.com and App
Engine with Java," said Jeff Douglas, Senior Salesforce.com
Platform Developer, Informa Plc. "We are prototyping a number of
customer-facing applications to replace paper-based processes.
Cloud computing gives us the capability to quickly prototype, build
and deliver applications for our customers." Force.com for Google
App Engine - Connecting the Clouds Force.com for Google App Engine
provides developers a set of tools and services to build new kinds
of Web and business applications entirely in the cloud. Instead of
having to manage and maintain their own on-premise infrastructure,
developers can use real-time cloud computing infrastructure from
Google and salesforce.com to develop and deploy new applications on
the Web. Force.com for App Engine will accelerate the success
developers have had with App Engine in building Web applications,
and makes it easy for them to integrate their App Engine apps to
enterprise data stored in Force.com. With Force.com for App Engine,
Web applications built on App Engine can leverage enterprise data
stored in Force.com. The new Force.com for Google App Engine gives
developers: -- Java libraries designed to run on Google App Engine,
allowing App Engine apps to read and write to Force.com using the
Force.com SOAP API -- A means to leverage Java in the scalable App
Engine cloud environment and interact directly with the native
database, workflow and logic capabilities in Force.com -- App
Engine developers gain easy access to Force.com services and
capabilities including mobile, analytics, security and sharing
models, user authentication, multi-language and currency support
and more. Additionally, Force.com for Google App Engine includes:
-- An open source SOAP Web Service client that provides
transportation and object level access from Google App Engine
applications directly into the Force.com platform. The Web Service
client can also be used with other non-Force.com WSDLs and is
available at both developer.force.com and code.google.com. --
Complete Java docs for the Web Service client, including Java
source code -- Complete Java docs for the partner SOAP library,
including Java source code -- Getting Started guide for Force.com
and Google App Engine developers to get up and running quickly -- A
sample application that combines both cloud computing platforms to
build a simple catalog shopping experience Building on Strategic
Alliance Beginning in 2003 with joint work around the creation of
Google.org, the companies have been working together to advance
philanthropic causes as well as the benefits of cloud computing for
developers and customers: -- 2003: Google.org -- 2005: Google Maps
- Salesforce CRM mashups -- 2006: Salesforce for Google AdWords(TM)
-- 2007: Salesforce Group Edition featuring Google AdWords -- 2007:
OpenSocial -- 2008: Salesforce for Google Apps(TM) -- 2008:
Force.com for Google Data APIs -- 2008: Google Visualization API --
2009: Force.com for Google App Engine Additional resources:
Force.com - salesforce.com's enterprise cloud computing platform
Google App Engine - run your Web apps on Google's infrastructure
Force.com for App Engine - get the new set of tools and services
Introductory Session - session at the Google I/O event on getting
started with Force.com for Google App Engine About salesforce.com
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company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at
http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways
that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers
across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com
platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) enables customers,
partners and developers to quickly build powerful business
applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud.
Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multi-tenant architecture,
Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer
success with cloud computing. As of April 30, 2009, salesforce.com
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