The Death of Zembly

Friday, November 20, 2009 by Matt Warman

Recently, I have been talking about the virtues of Zembly to allow application development people to deploy their Java, JavaFX, and PHP applications to social networking sites like Facebook. Well, the Zembly team has notified everyone that the service will be shut down at the end of the month. I am guessing that this is the first round of “baggage” to be cut from the Sun/Oracle merger. On the surface it makes sense, since it is not a widely known framework, and canning the people will save them money. As a Java developer, I find the situation to be very difficult. Facebook is primarily a PHP site, with lots of Flash added in, and any avenue to move other frameworks to fight Flash is a good one. Can I still perform Facebook application development? Yes, but it is poorly documented, and the documentation on Facebook is PHP biased. It was nice to use a framework to do the heavy lifting because I don't have to worry about the plumbing, just the creative aspects. This is not important when writing an accounting application, but is very important in game application development.

Goodbye Zembly, we hardly knew ye.

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