Google App Engine
So Iv’e gotten a few minutes to mess around with the Google App Engine for Java. so far my thoughts are as thus:
- it’s very cool but there is ALOT of room for improvement though
- I like their free quota/billed model
- I like how easy it is to build local and deploy via the eclipse plugin. the less I have to leave my unified IDE to build and deploy, the better.
- the datastore is pretty powerfull in its ability to directly push your application’s object model into it (thanks JDO!)
- there needs to be a serious increase in supported JDO features. The fact that there is no OR operator in GQL is ridiculous
- there also needs to be some tools built for direct data access. right now it all has to be done programatically for the most part (can’t seem to get the dashboard data view to work)
- I haven’t played with any of the built in services yet like memcache or the image rendering service. that should be really cool
- mashing with the GWT was a clever move on their part and I will now be forced to (finally) pay attention to it and learn it.
- I love the idea of building rapidly scalable apps that will work on a pay-as-you-go model. this is especially cool if I ever get around to working with my buddy Carmen’s Tiny FB Java Taglib
that’s all I got for now
-CWD
