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> This is why there is no Java 8 on GAE and probably never will be. Do you have sources for this? Java 7 on GAE took really long and eventually shipped only sh
by needusername 12y ago
> This is why there is no Java 8 on GAE and probably never will be.
Do you have sources for this? Java 7 on GAE took really long and eventually shipped only shortly before Java 8 was released. From history I would expect the same to the case for Java 8 on GAE. It will take years and ship around the time Java 9 is released.
OTOH if Google created a maintenance horror for themselves by patching the fuck out of the JDK and Jetty (I don't think Servlet 3 is ever going to happen) I don't really have many sympathies for them.
- latchkey 12y agoNo, I'm just reading the writing on the wall. I'm just paying attention to things as I run a business on GAE. They didn't have such a strong focus on GCE and managed VM's before. It is clear with the release of the public beta of managed VM's, they want people to really test it so they can get it out of beta as quickly as possible. I imagine that most of the team that was allocated to work on GAE is now working on GCE and managed VM's. I'll be switching to managed vm's at some point in the near future (when I can find some time for it). They are also less expensive, which is nice.