Google AppEngine Getting XMPP, Background Processing and Receiving and Processing Email
Google AppEngine blog recently announced the 6 month roadmap. I was hoping an out of beta state was to come soon but looks like it will be a gmail type beta length. But it is still usable and more stable with high availability than anything that s small company can provide. I hope they plan to go live to 1.0 this year, I was hoping the EC2 announcements and official launch of other cloud based offerings would drive them to do that. It makes it much easier to justify using it for production code. I was also hoping for an update to the included django to 1.0.
With that said I digress, the roadmap looks very nice. Jabber/XMPP support, background processesses, sending and receiving and processing inbound and outbound email.
The App Engine team has been plugging away and we’re excited about some pretty big announcements in the near future. In the meantime, we decided to refresh our App Engine roadmap for the next six months with some of the great new APIs in our pipeline:
- Support for running scheduled tasks
- Task queues for performing background processing
- Ability to receive and process incoming email
- Support for sending and receiving XMPP (Jabber) messages
As always, keep in mind that development schedules are notoriously difficult to predict, and release dates may change as work progresses. We’ll do our best to update this roadmap as our engineers continue development and keep you abreast of any changes!
