Active Web Solutions are pleased to announce immediate availability of JAzure, a Java based interoperability library for the Windows Azure Services Storage API.

Windows Azure is often thought of as a Microsoft-only platform, but actually it has wide applicability. It has been possible to host Java applications in Windows Azure Compute for a while, but with this library, it is now possible to work with Azure Tables, Queues and Blobs from Java code.

"We see inter-enterprise integration as a key scenario for Windows Azure" said Rob Blackwell, R&D Director. "This library will allow us to work in cross platform environments and with legacy systems and code."

JAzure is released under a BSD style license giving systems integrators a great deal of flexibility about where and how it can be used. Both source code and binary distributions are available from Codeplex.

This work is a direct result of our successful collaboration between AWS and The University of Essex.

For more information, see http://jazure.codeplex.com/