Google App Engine adds Java support. And scheduled tasks (cron). (I wrote the documentation.)
Especially check out the new Eclipse plugin with super-easy support for App Engine and GWT. GWT+AE+Eclipse = awesome. If you like Java, anyway.
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April 7, 2009