Google App Engine Java Support

I know, I know. Envy me. Not only have I gotten to beta test the iPhone 3.0 notification and payment frameworks (incidentally, OS3.0 is piiiimmmppp), I now get to beta test the GAE J6 support. Although I'm still shocked, and slightly dismayed that the first language supported beyond Python is Java, it's clear they did it based on the very vocal rantings of the Javanistas (http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1) with gems such as "Java/Groovy would make this service much more serious for the individuals and development companies to work with it". Ah, the egocentric hubris of the Java-first crowd.

Well, enough about the that. The great news isn't Java support - it's JVM support. Since now I can finally run Rails (well, JRails), it may be worth a go. But I still don't know how they're going to handle the lack of opening ports.

Sadly, I've been so busy knocking the hell out of vocmsg, everything must relate to that. So, I think I'll write my iPhone notifier on GAE using J6, and dump the overview here. ¡Me parece bien!