Google Releases Spring Programming Model for Java on Cloud Platform

Google is making it easier for Java developers to build applications using the Spring software programming model on its cloud platform. The company on Aug. 8 announced general availability of Spring Cloud GCP 1.0 on its cloud platform. The technology, developed in collaboration with Pivotal Research, will allow developers using GCP to more easily build Spring Boot applications, Mike Eltsufin, a Google software engineer and Ray Tsang, a Google developer advocate at the company, stated in an Aug. 8 blog. Spring Cloud lets Java developers write more maintainable applications with less boilerplate code and simpler configuration and that are portable in a hybrid on-premises and cloud-based environment," they noted. Spring is a framework for developing enterprise Java applications. It has been in existence several years and allows developers to use what are known in developer-speak as Plain Old Java Objects or POJO to develop Java applications for use in enterprise settings.