Microsoft has been touting for a although the capacity for developers to make use of many different tools, like Java, PHP, Ruby and Eclipse, when creating programs for Windows Azure. But the business will phase up its Java assistance for Azure inside the coming weeks and months, elevating Java to a “first-class citizen” in the Microsoft cloud realm.The reasons Microsoft is interested in doing this aren;t hard to figure. There are lots of Java developers out there whom Microsoft would be excluding from its potential cloud customer base if it didn;t support anything beyond .Net. And Microsoft cloud competitors like VMware, Amazon and Google all have built Java assistance into their respective platforms.Exactly how Microsoft intends to up its Java assistance is fairly vague, beyond promises from executives at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference this week. Microsoft execs told eWEEK that Microsoft will be focusing on improving Java performance, Eclipse tooling and client libraries for Windows Azure. This improved Java enablement will be available to customers in 2011, the Softies said. So far it;s murky as to which Java variants Microsoft will be targeting beyond “the ones customers want us to do,
Office 2007 Sale,” as Microsoft execs said this week.“Our ultimate goal is to create Java as first-class as .Net on Windows Azure,
Office 2007,” said Senior Vice President of Microsoft;s Server and Cloud Division Amitabh Srivastava.In the nearer term, Microsoft will be continuing to flesh out the existing Java interoperability support that the corporation already is delivering via new versions of Java software-development kits (SDKs) for Azure.On October 29, Microsoft and Soyatec — its development partner for several of these SDKs — unveiled new Version 2 releases of the Windows Azure SDK for Java and Windows Azure Instruments for Eclipse.
New within the v2 of the Azure SDK for Java is assistance for new features that Microsoft delivered in its Windows Azure SDK 1.2,
Microsoft Office 2007 cl��, which shipped in June of this year. Among those new features are refactoring support,
Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Keygen, support for Windows Azure Drive, Windows Azure Service Management and Blob snapshot support. New within the v2 of the Azure Equipment for Eclipse is assistance for the same Windows Azure SDK 1.2 released in June. Among the new specific new fetures are things like the ability to host PHP applications on HTTP endpoints using SSL certificates, assistance for Windows Azure diagnostics,
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007, and the capability to run MySQL databases on Windows Azure.