Jelastic, another entrant in the quickly growing Java platform-as-a-service (PaaS) marketplace, has announced the addition of so-called “Tech All-Stars” to its roster of cloud advisers. Jelastics adviser base now includes the founder of My SQL AB and the MariaDB database server, the creator of the Groovy++ Java programming language, and the developer of the Nginx web server.

Before we go in for a deeper look at this announcement, I just wanted to go over Jelastic’s value proposition. Like Cumulogic and Cloudbees, Jelastic is built around enabling developers to run and scale Java apps in the cloud with no need for specific APIs or modifications of any kind. Unlike those two, Jelastic is promoting itself as specifically hosting provider-friendly.

According to the press release, Jelastic’s new advisers are:

That’s a pretty solid lineup of programming talent and open source vision. But will they be able to lead Jelastic to cloud success? Keep watching TalkinCloud for more updates.