Early experience of building a cloud platform for service oriented software development

Cloud computing is commonly characterized as a three-layer architecture including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, while service oriented approach is widely considered as a promising software development method. In this paper, we report our early experience of moving traditional service oriented software development to the cloud computing environment. Our primary goal is to provide instant development, instant deployment and instant running services for service oriented software developers. Corresponding to the three layers of cloud computing, our work includes software appliance management, app engine and online development environment. We elaborate on the design and preliminary implementation experience.