Comments on: Java on Google app engine with intelliJ

By: SN

SN — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:09:32 +0000

Vote here if you are looking for maven support in GAE
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1296

By: nicity

nicity — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:41:52 +0000

Google App Engine Integration http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=4254

By: jettro

jettro — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:01:10 +0000

To me the biggest thing is that you cannot use threads, I haven’t seen if ThreadLocal is supported. That might have a problem as well.

By: toolman

toolman — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:58:44 +0000

Found a list of things you can’t do: http://www.byteonic.com/2009/nine-things-you-cannot-do-using-java-in-google-app-engine/

JPOX/datanucleus has got a plugin for persistence: http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/

So still good even with the limitations …

By: jettro

jettro — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:40:38 +0000

I have tried it myself, but I do not see the problem. My java process is killed with the runner. What OS are you using?

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:42:00 +0000

When I end the runner the server keeps running in the background.. any way to kill it automaticaly?

By: jettro

jettro — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:24:39 +0000

There are a few things important, I think the intro of the google docs contains them all.

With App Engine, you can build web applications using standard Java technologies and run them on Google’s scalable infrastructure. The Java environment provides a Java 6 JVM, a Java Servlets interface, and support for standard interfaces to the App Engine scalable datastore and services, such as JDO, JPA, JavaMail, and JCache. Standards support makes developing your application easy and familiar, and also makes porting your application to and from your own servlet environment straightforward.

By: toolman

toolman — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:41:18 +0000

Interesting Jettro; what does the app engine provide, and what are the restrictions?

What Im really asking is: how does it differ from any other servlet container, and what does the API provide?

I better go look at the links provided…