Cloud computing is revolutionizing the software development industry, no more so than in the Java application space. The Platform-as-a-Service model allows developers to concentrate more on application development and then deploy that application to a managed application execution environment in the cloud without needing to deal with provisioning and configuring machines, operating systems and application servers. The Platform-as-a-Service market for Java applications has exploded in 2011 with a flurry of vendors announcing offerings and a lot of merger and acquisition activity.
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