Comments on: Microsoft Azure Brings on Some Support for Open Source http://www.cloudave.com/1184/microsoft-azure-brings-on-some-support-for-open-source/ Software in Business. The Business of Software. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: schultzter http://www.cloudave.com/1184/microsoft-azure-brings-on-some-support-for-open-source/#comment-2941 schultzter Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:36:00 +0000 http://www.cloudave.com/link/microsoft-azure-brings-on-some-support-for-open-source#comment-2941 I've only taken a quick look at the Java SDK but from what I can see they're using custom classes - they're not implementing a standard interface. Google's App Engine, for example, implements the JDO and JPA interfaces so the actual storage mechanism is abstracted away and you could easily take your code to any other platform that provides implementations for those standard interaces. I suppose it might not take long for someone to implement a standard Java interface on top of Microsoft's SDK but if they were really committed to open standards I would have expected them to have done it themselves for the release! I’ve only taken a quick look at the Java SDK but from what I can see they’re using custom classes – they’re not implementing a standard interface.

Google’s App Engine, for example, implements the JDO and JPA interfaces so the actual storage mechanism is abstracted away and you could easily take your code to any other platform that provides implementations for those standard interaces.

I suppose it might not take long for someone to implement a standard Java interface on top of Microsoft’s SDK but if they were really committed to open standards I would have expected them to have done it themselves for the release!

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