website zembly.com type of site cloud based development platform launched june 2008 current status closed down zembly styled zembly was a browser based development environment from sun microsystems 1 that enabled social programming 2 of applications for facebook meebo opensocial iphone web applications and other social platforms as well as web widgets . users of zembly interacted with one another via zembly s social networking features to engage in co development of applications for these platforms . in addition to the development environment the zembly platform provided the ability to consume web apis restful web services in zembly applications as well as externally using the open source zembly client library with language bindings for java and javafx . this functionality provided a consistent programming model across various api providers . zembly combined features from traditional ides such as a rich scripting editor with wiki and social networking based technologies to attempt to innovate on the application development paradigm for smaller sized applications . applications created at zembly were automatically and transparently deployed hosted and scaled on its underlying cloud computing infrastructure . contents 1 architecture 2 closure 3 references 4 further reading 5 external links architecture edit zembly was run as a product within sun microsystems s cloud computing organization with the hosting of the website and developer applications provided by network.com s compute cloud . it was built on a stack consisting largely of sun technologies including solaris 10 java the glassfish application server and mysql . the software stack ran on a horizontally scaled cluster of sun fire t2000 niagara and x4500 thumper servers . in addition zembly used apache and memcached . zembly had also incorporated and contributed to mozilla bespin . closure edit in november 2009 zembly announced that the site would be closed on 2009 11 30 and that once the site is shutdown all your applications and services on zembly will be unavailable . 3 some zembly developers have expressed frustration about zembly abandoning them without even open sourcing their code . 4 references edit sun sponsors social apps platform . infoworld . 2008 06 27 . retrieved 2009 01 28 . social programming interview with todd fast . redmonk . 2008 08 04 . retrieved 2009 01 28 . zembly shutdown notice . retrieved 2009 11 10 . zembly is deadpooled 2.5 yrs of effort went in vain . retrieved 2010 03 18 . further reading edit anderson gail ; anderson paul ; fast todd ; webster christopher december 29 2008 . prentice hall . isbn 978 0 13 714431 0 . oclc 246887926 . assemble the social web with zembly . external links edit zembly provides social context for web development o reilly radar web app and widget engine zembly launches mashable retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zembly & oldid 738888407 categories widget management systemsinternet properties established in 2008social networking servicessun microsystems softwarecollaborative softwareproject hosting websitesfree software websitescompanies based in menlo park california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 17 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view