Jelastic says it has released a plugin tying the Jelastic Java cloud hosting platform into the Eclipse integrated development environment
Java cloud hosting platform developer Jelastic announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with the Eclipse integrated development environment, a move it says will make it easier for users to deploy Java apps to the Jelastic Java cloud hosting platform.
Launched in the US in the early part of 2012 – in April, ServInt announced it would be the first web hosting partner to distribute the Jelastic java cloud hosting platform in the US – Jelastic is a platform-as-a-service cloud computing environment designed originally around the Java programming language. Unlike other PaaS environments, Jelastic from the start targeted hosting providers as the channel through which the platform would be distributed.
The model is also interesting in the sense that, unlike some platform tools aimed at hosting providers, the platform isn’t a white label product, or an effort to capture the largest number of hosting providers. The product is delivered as “Jelastic” through a set of pretty deep partnerships with a relatively small number of geographically distributed hosting partners.
While the original focus was on Java, Jelastic has said all along it planned to expand the platform to include support for other developing environments. In September, the company revealed plans to expand the Jelastic Java cloud platform to include support for PHP applications.
The partnership with Eclipse, says the company, ties Jelastic in to the most popular integrated development environment for Java development, enabling developers to manage their deployments and hosting deployments without having to switch between the IDE and browser.
According to Jelastic, the plugin can be installed automatically from within Eclipse (users can also download the Jelastic plugin from the Eclipse marketplace), and it enables users to log into the Jelastic java cloud hosting platform and deploy their app into the cloud from within the Eclipse environment. Eclipse users can also start and stop Jelastic instances, and access log files and other functions of the Jelastic service from with Eclipse.
While the main advantage to users is the simplification of the development process by eliminating the need to switch between environments to deploy and manage the Jelastic instances. For Jelastic’s hosting partners, the simplified customer experience may increase the likelihood that developers using eclipse rely on Jelastic to complete the actual deplopyment.
Jelastic says it plans to launch integration with other development environments in the future.
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