Applications created with the Zoho Creator Web database application tool will now run on Google App Engine.

Zoho Creator lets non-tecchie users use drag-and-drop tools to create ad-hoc Web applications and add them to Web sites and blogs. Once users create an application in Zoho Creator, using drag-and-drop tools to add fields and their names, they can select the "Deploy in Google App Engine" option from the "More Actions" link. This converts the Zoho Creator application code into Python code, which the  Google App Engine supports.

More than 130,000 applications have been created with Zoho Creator. With the integration of App Engine, users have another platform on which to run their applications. Using the Google App Engine SDK, users can deploy the Zoho Creator application they created on Google App Engine through the platform's App Launcher.

"Basically, Zoho Creator acts as an IDE [integrated development environment] for App Engine," said Zoho Evangelist Raju Vegesna. "We want to provide our users the choice to decide where to run the applications they build with Zoho Creator. We don't want to lock anybody into Zoho. Zoho CloudSQL gave users open access to their data. Now, we're giving them open access to their application code, so it can run on other vendors' infrastructure.

"Zoho Creator is a great way for casual users to check out Google App Engine. They can create the applications using Zoho Creator and then take the Python code and run it on Google without any knowledge of Python. The Deluge language in Zoho Creator is flexible to generate code in any language and can easily support other languages in the future."