# Zembly

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zembly Type of site Cloud-based Development Platform Headquarters Menlo Park, CA Created by Sun Microsystems Industry Computer software URL zembly.com Launched June 2008 Current status closed down

**Zembly** (styled **zembly**) was a browser-based development environment from [Sun Microsystems](/source/Sun_Microsystems) [1] that enabled social programming [2] of applications for [Facebook](/source/Facebook), [Meebo](/source/Meebo), [OpenSocial](/source/OpenSocial), [iPhone](/source/IPhone) web applications, and other social platforms, as well as [web widgets](/source/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. It was available from 2008 to 2009.

In addition to the development environment, the zembly platform, provided the ability to consume Web APIs ([RESTful web services](/source/RESTful)) in zembly applications as well as externally using the open source zembly client library (with language bindings for [Java](/source/Java_(programming_language)) and [JavaFx](/source/JavaFx)). This functionality provided a consistent programming model across various API providers.

Zembly combined features from traditional [IDEs](/source/Integrated_Development_Environment) (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](/source/Cloud_computing) infrastructure.

## Architecture

Zembly was run as a product within [Sun Microsystems](/source/Sun_Microsystems)'s cloud computing organization, with the hosting of the website and developer applications provided by [Network.com](/source/Network.com)'s compute cloud. It was built on a stack consisting largely of Sun technologies, including [Solaris](/source/Solaris_(operating_system)) 10, [Java](/source/Java_(programming_language)), the [GlassFish](/source/GlassFish) application server, and [MySQL](/source/MySQL). The software stack ran on a horizontally scaled cluster of [Sun Fire](/source/Sun_Fire) T2000 ("Niagara") and [X4500](/source/X4500) ("Thumper") servers. In addition, zembly used [Apache](/source/Apache_HTTP_Server) and [memcached](/source/Memcached). Zembly had also incorporated (and contributed to) [Mozilla Bespin](/source/Mozilla_Bespin).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Closure

In November 2009 zembly announced that the site would be closed on November 30, 2009 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

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Sun sponsors social apps platform"](http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/27/Sun-sponsors-social-apps-platform_1.html). [InfoWorld](/source/InfoWorld). 2008-06-27. Retrieved 2009-01-28.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Social Programming - Interview with Todd Fast"](http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/08/04/social-programming-interview-with-zemblycoms-todd-fast/). Redmonk. 2008-08-04. Retrieved 2009-01-28.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Zembly Shutdown Notice"](http://zembly.com/static/suspend/index.html). Retrieved 2009-11-10.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["zembly is deadpooled – 2.5 yrs of effort went in vain :("](http://hasin.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/zembly-is-deadpooled-2-5-yrs-of-effort-went-in-vain/). 10 November 2009. Retrieved 2010-03-18.

## Further reading

- Anderson, Gail; Anderson, Paul; Fast, Todd; Webster, Christopher (December 29, 2008). Prentice Hall. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-13-714431-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-13-714431-0). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [246887926](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246887926). Assemble the Social Web with zembly.

## External links

- [zembly Provides Social Context for Web Development - O'Reilly Radar](https://web.archive.org/web/20080709044654/http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/06/zembly-provides-social-context.html)

- [Web App And Widget Engine Zembly Launches - Mashable](http://mashable.com/2008/06/07/zembly/)

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