Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps enterprise deployment partner, has announced its support for Google's addition of Java to the Google App Engine platform. The systems integrator also announced the formation of a Google App Engine development practice dedicated to extending the utility of Google Apps in large scale, enterprise deployments.

Cloud Sherpas' announcement coincides with the April 7 Google Campfire One event where Google announced its new Java support for Google App Engine. The Cloud Sherpas team will leverage Google App Engine and the new Java language support to enable deep integrations and build new products for the Google Apps ecosystem, the company said.

"The drive to reduce cost has created a groundswell of demand for Google Apps among large institutions and enterprise customers," said Michael Cohn, CEO of Cloud Sherpas. "With Java language support, Google App Engine offers an open, scalable platform for organizations to integrate Google Apps with other applications, build custom workflow applications, and migrate legacy workloads to the cloud."

Cloud Sherpas also published a whitepaper entitled "Extending Google Apps with Java for App Engine." The whitepaper offers a high-level overview of the Google App Engine stack and describes an approach for integrating custom applications with Google Apps. Please visit the Cloud Sherpas website to download the whitepaper.

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