VMware Inc. and Google have announced together the upcoming release of a suite of tools that will enable developers to rapidly produce cloud portable applications. The collaborative projects should become available over the next two weeks and includes enhancements to Google Web Toolkit, a performance enhancement tool, and a plugin tool suite for the Eclipse Java development IDE.

"Developers are looking for faster ways to build and run great web applications, and businesses want platforms that are open and flexible," said Vic Gundotra, Google vice president of developer platforms. "By making deployments of Spring Java applications on Google App Engine using Google Web Toolkit generally available, developers can deploy Java applications in production environments of their choice while leveraging rich web front-end across multiple devices."

The list of upcoming projects has been posted via joint press release,

Spring Roo and Google Web Toolkit — Spring Roo, a next generation rapid application development tool, combined with the power of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) enable developers to build rich browser apps in enterprise production environments. These GWT powered applications leverage modern browser technologies such as AJAX and HTML5 to create the most compelling end user experience on both desktops and mobile browsers.

Spring Insight and Google Speed Tracer — Google’s Speed Tracer with VMware’s Spring Insight performance tracing technology enable end to end performance visibility into cloud applications. This integration provides a holistic view into the web application performance, improving the end-user experience by optimizing the client side as well as the server side.

SpringSource Tool Suite and Google Plugin for Eclipse — The integration of SpringSource Tool Suite version 2.5 and Google Plugin for Eclipse makes it easy for developers to build and maintain large scale, web-based, enterprise applications, putting tools that were previously only available when building desktop and server solutions in the hands of those building cutting edge web apps.

Between tools that will help produce more portable, rich browser experiences by leveraging HTML5, tools for Java developers to increase their own portability, and awareness API’s for applications to permit them to know how much to buffer—we should be seeing a lot of good stuff come out of this partnership.