cloud services such as: payment service, image manipulation service etc.
Such services are gaining popularity in PaaS marketplaces ( Heroku,
engineyard, Amazon) and thought it would be nice to create a cloud API
(similar to jcouds) for each of those services.
If you're looking at the potential intersection of jclouds and PaaS,
the following two old threads might be useful:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/jclouds/cGSxOKEHCzw/6Vv4yXghYYYJ
Nirmal Fernando has also recently submitted a provider for docker to
jclouds-labs, which has been generating a very enthusiastic response:
http://apache.markmail.org/thread/g4sfgahigav757a6
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