The Trusted Cloud for Enterprise Java Developers

The Trusted Cloud for Enterprise Java Developers

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A joint offering from VMware and salesforce.com, VMforce is an enterprise cloud for Java Spring applications. Powered by VMware’s vFabric Cloud Application Platform (a set of application services including a lightweight application server, global data management, cloud-ready messaging, and application performance management.) plus Force.com, VMforce is delivered and supported by the leaders in cloud infrastructure performance and reliability.

VMforce combines the ease and familiarity of Spring with the dramatically lower costs of running your applications in the cloud. Build Java apps just as you do now—using the Eclipse-based Spring Tool Suite (STS) and standard Java code—and deploy to VMforce with a single click.

  • Speed, Simplicity, and Scalability
  • With VMforce, there’s no hardware to manage—and no software stack to install, patch, tune, or upgrade. Just drag and drop your Java app to VMforce to deploy. Using Force.com’s built-in tools, you can easily add analytics, search, reporting, and visual process management features to your apps, as well as Web 2.0 collaboration and mobile capabilities. All apps on VMforce are elastic, so you never have to worry about scaling up app servers, databases, or infrastructure.
  • Open and Flexible
  • If your company has Java development resources and skill sets, you can now easily develop enterprise Java apps locally and deploy them to the cloud. VMforce supports standard Java code, including POJOs, JSPs, and Servlets, along with the popular Spring Framework. You can also easily migrate existing enterprise Java apps to VMforce and avoid cloud lock-in.
  • Trusted and Secure
  • Force.com is the world’s most secure cloud computing platform, trusted by more than 72,500 customers every day for their most critical data and business applications. You can now run all your Java apps on this same infrastructure—verified as secure by ISO 27001, SysTrust, and SAS70 Type II certifications.

Painless Portability

Because VMforce supports open standards like Java, Spring, and JPA, developers can port existing enterprise apps from on-premises systems to the cloud—or vice versa—with minimal configuration changes.

Powerful Pre-Built Application Features

Force.com has a rich set of pre-built business app components—dashboards, analytics, reporting, search, and visual process management—plus cutting-edge collaboration features like user profiles, status updates, groups, and real-time feeds. Developers can save time, effort and cost by adding any of these capabilities to their apps without custom coding.

Robust and Easy-to-Use Database

The Force.com platform includes a powerful and developer-friendly database. Point-and-click tools let you create custom objects and fields for everything, including dates, currency, text, numbers, picklists, checklists, and more. With just a few clicks, you can add relationships, formula fields, validation rules, reporting, tagging, auditing, and searches.

Community and Ecosystem Resources

Thanks to VMforce support for standard Java and Spring, developers can continue to draw on existing code libraries and take advantage of open-source components.

Salesforce Data Access and Utilization

Tens of thousands of Salesforce CRM customers store their account, customer, contact, and deal information on the Force.com platform. Using JPA entities and a Spring template-style data access library, Java developers can easily build applications that utilize and leverage this valuable data.