Google App Engine & Java

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:46:12 +0000

So I've spent a few days going over Google App Engine for Java. So far, I have to say, I'm impressed. Google has created a really cool service that lets anyone write a Java web application and host it on their multitude of servers. This is all for free, I might add. You have to be aware of a number of limitations including no threading and you're limited to their data store for persistence. Once you get over that, you'll see the advantage of it:

App Engine on The Dangling Pointer

Google App Engine & Java