Launch and Automatically Scale Java Web Applications in the Cloud with a Few Clicks

Cloud Foundry is an open source “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) from VMware allowing easy deployment of cloud applications using Spring for Java developers, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby developers, Node.js and other JVM frameworks including Grails. Cloud Foundry breaks new ground in PaaS through supporting a choice of programming models; a choice of services from VMware and third parties; a choice of clouds for deployment; and being delivered in open source.

Cloud Foundry is a cloud-era application platform which includes a self-service application execution engine, an automation engine for application deployment and lifecycle management, a scriptable command line interface (CLI), integration with development tools to ease development and deployment processes and an open architecture for quick development framework integration, application services interface and cloud provider interface.

Initially Cloud Foundry will be available as:

• CloudFoundry.com - a complete hosted PaaS environment
• CloudFoundry.org - an open source project where developers and community members can collaborate and contribute to the project.
• Cloud Foundry Micro Cloud - a complete instance designed for developer’s desktops, will be forthcoming

Spring and Grails developers can find an introduction to Cloud Foundry as well updates about cloud development on the SpringSource blog under the Cloud Foundry tag