Google App Engine team has rolled out a major release for this year. In release of 1.4.0 they have done a lot of improvements and increased limits. I am very happy that they have increased the time limit of executing cron job (background task) from 30 seconds to 10 minute. For high demanding apps, its [...]
Just read cheat sheets (Refcard) by Dzone on Cloud Computing and Google App Engine for Java. They contain a very jumped to the point and quick reference on these things. You can read to have a quick overview. Read them here: Cloud Computing Google App Engine for Java [ad#co-2]
Recently I got two books on Google App Engine for Java. Programming Google App Engine by Oreilly and Beginning Google App Engine by Apress. There is less material and comprehensive online tutorials available on this. So its better that you read book on it. I started reading Oreilly’s book. I completed some of the basic [...]
This project will create and delete an entity record. I have chosen JPA for datastore in app engine. You can also look JDO for this purpose. But my choice to go for JPA is due to Sun standardization on it. I am using App Engine SDK version 1.2.18 Project name: engineplay URL: http://engineplay.appspot.com [ad#co-2] Project [...]
I was getting following exception while trying to code my first interaction with JPA in Google App Engine. After some searching I came to know that I should upgrade my App Engine SDK. To get datanucleus-enhancer-1.1.4.jar. But when I upgraded my SDK from 1.2.0 to 1.2.8. I got following exception. I got two problems to [...]
If you are working on developing some application on Google App Engine. You may come up with such situation to switch your production code with your local dev code. Following is my solution for this problem. I have initialized a servlet from web.xml. That set appropriate value in a static boolean. I will use this [...]
The current issue I am working on is to make my naked domain http://mydomain.com to redirect to http://www.mydomain.com in Google App Engine. With www prefix I have configured my domain. But my naked domain is not working. I just found on Google support site that they are no more supporting naked URLs for their app [...]
If you are developing web application on Google App Engine for Java. And you dont know what this exception is. You can be in trouble. The container throws this exception for those requests which take time more than 30 seconds. In other words GAE wants every requests to be fullfilled within 30 seconds. Case I [...]
Recently Google has included Java in its App Engine. Currently this release is an early look. Google is giving access to first 10,000 developers to deploy and test their Java applications and give their feedback. What is Google App Engine? Google is providing its scalable and managed deployment environment for developers. In Java environment JVM6, [...]
