Even if you have developed a killer application, there is no point, if it cant be accessed by users all over the world without any hassle. Deploying you app with a reliable and a secured, cost efficient hosting provider is another challage u might have faced ... Google App Engine to the rescue ;)
Google officially released App Engine, way back in April 2008, as a Beta version, only with Python support, but now it got Java support as well. What s the specialty in App Engine? It is a platform for developing and hosting java (and python) applications, in Google's infrastructure, which supports a greater scalability, and thats of no cost :) absolutely free.. so, you as an application developer do not have to worry about how to manage thousands of concurrent requests to your application, how to manage your web server, all those will be look after by Google, providing best services you need.. The concept behind App Engine is "Cloud Computing", where Google provide their infrastructure as a service.
So, if you need to make your application available online at the same day you started development, Google App Engine is the best way :) It comes with a plugin to Eclipse, from which you can make your app available in WWW in few button cliks..
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Happy coding !!
Sajith K
