Google uses Python, Java, JavaScript and C++ for their applications (anything else for prototypes). I don't know anyone who is writing web applications in C++, so supporting Java, also bringing JavaScript with it via Rhino, is very likely the next step.

And, say compared to PHP, Java already offers a bunch of packaging and deployment options. I'm sure they figure something out.

In any case I think App Engine provides the missing piece to the big Google puzzle, answering the "Whats their revenue in a few years, when AdWords don't grow anymore?". And it nicely brings all the existing pieces together.

This web site seems to have more info: http://www.appenginejava.com any idea about the release date?

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Google has launched a very cool application server, it is called Google App Engine. Kudos to google again But this application server started a big war on the internet, lots and lots of developers around the world, are very sad because the only suppo...