Cloudsmith, Inc., a provider of innovative Web services that help developers create and share software, today introduced the Cloudsmith service.
The site, now in public beta, is designed to make it easier and faster for developers to assemble, use and reuse software components. Cloudsmith’s infrastructure also aggregates the work of developer communities to help them create and maintain software configurations, with or without the support of a commercial vendor.
While the concept of putting software together is simple, in practice, development organizations struggle to work with external components. Such components often include parts of open source projects, which change rapidly and may be minimally documented.
The service makes it possible for developers to efficiently create custom configurations—virtual distributions or distros—of software components that come from different places. Users simply point to the components they want in their distro, locate them on the Cloudsmith map and then publish the distro to Cloudsmith.
The development team for the open source project Lomboz used Cloudsmith to help manage the process of creating and publishing the recently released Lomboz 3.3 Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE). Five distinct distributions of Lomboz 3.3—for portal, Web, BPEL and enterprise development—are available only as Cloudsmith virtual distros.
Cloudsmith was formed in 2006 and is led by experienced technology entrepreneurs. The company is a strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation.
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