From an InfoWorld article on the aftermath of the Google I/O conference: “Roger Simmons, a Java EE architect at consulting firm Purpleshift and one of the 3,000 attendees on hand, sees the Google App Engine application hosting service, the company’s Gears technology for mixing Web and desktop capabilities, and its data APIs as the locus of Google’s enterprise development play. ‘They’re becoming a platform for enterprise software development,’ Simmons noted, before expressing disappointment with the current limitations of technologies, especially App Engine’s Python-only support. According to Simmons, before App Engine can be taken seriously, it will have to add support for Java and Groovy as well.” Not to slam on Mr. Simmons, and I’m sure App Engine won’t remain Python-only forever, but … well, I hope we don’t end up seeing Java developers endlessly assert that everyone will have to use Java to be taken seriously while the world moves on. Google is at the moment where the action is, and if they keep not putting Java at the center of their code offerings, I for one would start to get a chill. JavaTechnology Industry