I'm making my GAE app using Eclipse. All the plugins, and other functionalities involved support development for the Standard Environment. Is there a way to convert my current project to the Flexible Environment? Barring that, once uploaded to GAE, can this change be done online?
The Flexible environment is an almost entirely different beast than the Standard environment.
Support for various pieces of infra differs. You need to check each piece of infra you use in the Migrating Services from the Standard Environment to the Flexible Environment guide for an equivalent, if there is one. Effectively you'd be re-writing the app.
Note the service in above article title - the environment choice is done at the app service/module level, one can mix services with both environments inside the same app.
And no - the change can not be done online, you need to explicitly deploy the re-written app service to switch its environment.
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We are developing a java based framework, running on Linux OS
that will provide an infrastructure for developed Applications (Java)
which is very similar to Android OS architecture.
Our framework consists of services and data providers running as different processes and providing
data to the applications running also in the system.
We want to use frameworks/base sources from the Android OS and use it in our framework
after some modifications, without building the entire Android OS.
Is this task possible to achieve in a reasonable amount of time?
If so, can you please point us where to start?
Thanks
If you want to modify a portion without needing to rebuild everything i think you could trying using AOP and compile time weaving, that is AspectJ in your case. Have a look here.
It would be nice if, once new code is tested, I could release changes to either a particular subdomain of my GAE app (such as demo.my-gae-app.com instead of my live environment at my-gae-app.com) or a particular backend instance (if subdomains are prohibited or not the right solution here).
Then, I can demo new code changes to my beta testers, and run performance tests against a real-life GAE environment. I know that the GAE SDK comes with a dev appserver, but it stubs most of the API calls, and doesn't handle scaling at all like a production environment would. And although we will absolutely use it for developers' local sandboxes as well as our QA environment, I just don't feel right release code into prod that hasn't ran against an environment that really mimics production.
How do other GAE developers/teams deal with this? I'm really just looking to have a pre-production environment (like "Demo")...but actually on live GAE app servers. Of course, I need to restrict access to this code so that only myself, my developers, my beta testers and our automated perf tests can access it... (that's the kicker).
You can deploy your code to a non-default application version, either by:
changing the version tag value in appengine-web.xml
calling appcfg.sh with -V version argument
changing the version in the deploy options of Google Eclipse plugin
After doing so, you can access your application by visiting version.appid.appspot.com
Note that different versions can access the same application datastore.
I registered a new application in Google app engine and deployed the beta version to it by changing project 's settings in eclipse. Then using google's tools (see Google doc) I copied the production datastore's content to the new beta app.
datastore in read-only mode while extracting data
Entity Keys could be problematic when working with unowned relationships - does anyone have information about this?
This provides me a perfect beta live environment.
I'm quite new to develop on GAE. Need just sort out few questions about setting up development.
I'm currently using Eclipse 3.7.x, Google Suite Plugin 2.5.2 r37
Related links I found:
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1787
GAE - Development server in Eclipse doesn't update?
http://code.google.com/p/gae-wtp-plugin/
I came from standard LAMP development environment. Changes are propagated immediately to development server (usually localhost) and I can control deployment of application to production server through DCVS/SVN and attached handlers updating remote codebase.
I'd expect Google Plugin allowing us to do the same. Necessary functions I (probably) need:
On-Save handler to recompile and update development code
Production like development environment (for testing in almost-real conditions)
Deployment to production environment
The last one is simply using DCVS/SVN to tag code and save the trunk branch, and using Google > Deploy to App Engine option to push it to remote server.
But how can I solve the first two requirements? Do I really need them, or is it only my hangover from web development, and development process in GAE works differently?
If the first one is solvable through GAE WTP Plugin, can you please more elaborate on how to setup development with this plugin, as I was not able to achieve anything more, than server, which has to be restarted in the same manner as Google Plugin default GAE development server
does.
You can update development code pretty quickly with the yellow reload button. For me, with about 100 server classes, this takes 2-5 seconds.
The development environment is reasonably good - you can simulate HRD and stuff like that. Of course, it's not actually a distributed cloud environment - we do most testing on local servers, and then have a whole test app on the cloud for a last round of simulation. Of course, some things change when 1000 people are accessing it at once, but I don't know how to get around that.
You can find the reload button on the Development View pane:
I need to decide between various Java technologies to install on a Linux server.
My back end (biz logic) is a Java program that must communicate with C functions using JNI. This Java program also must communicate with Oracle database (11G) using JDBC on one side, and BlazeDS residing in a Java-based Application Server on the other side (to communicate with Flash plug-in on client side). I also need an HTTP web server.
Not knowing much about Java, I wonder what the highest performance (e.g. fastest) and/or cleanest solution might be.
For example, should I install JDK on the server to provide JNI functionality, then then use Tomcat for everything else? Or, does Tomcat also include JNI? Or would something like JBoss which includes J2EE and serveletts capability be better, since it does everything in one package?
Just trying to learn any conventional wisdom about possible solutions, and pros and cons about going one way versus another.
Any Java runtime environment can do JNI - so by implication if you have any application server (e.g. Tomcat or JBoss) running then you should be able to do JNI just fine.
Tomcat would be perfectly fine for what you are describing.
It's a popular lightweight application server
It supports servlets and JSPs so works well for serving HTML
It's probably a bit simpler to get started with than a full JBoss setup
On the other hand JBoss is great as well.
More of an "Enterprisey" focus - you can optionally get excellent commercial support from Red Hat
Might make sense if you wanted to leverage some of the other products in the JBoss ecosystem
I basically think both would serve your needs. I'd probably suggest writing a simple servlet-based application and try deploying it to both Tomcat and JBoss to see which one you prefer. If you stick to standard servlet features then your app should run on both Tomcat and JBoss so you can keep your options open.
The other thing to consider early is tool support - make sure you get comfortable and happy with your Java IDE tooling for your app development. My personal choice is Eclipse, which has great support via plugins for both JBoss and Tomcat. But most of the other major Java IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA or Netbeans should serve your purposes as well.
G-WAN is an HTTP server (critera #3) which executes Java scripts that can use Jar and other Java classes (criteria #2) while at the same time run C/C++ scripts (criteria #1).
The advantage of this solution is that you will have only one program running (no intermediate layers, no wrappers).
Disclamer: I am involved in the development of this project.
We develop Java Web-aps (Websphere, DB2) which display graphical and databased information. We would also like to offer the same application offline (distribution via CD/DVD) with online data-update. We have tried a number of alternatives in the past, but nothing has been really stable. What are the new best practices to take a Web ap plus data (in a small database) offline?
I don't know how well it works with the CD/DVD distribution front, but the first thing that comes to mind is Gears. On the .NET side of the fence there's Silverlight 2. Then there's the Mozilla Prism project, although I don't know how far advanced that is.
These are all designed for not just offline access, but mixed offline/online, talking to a server when it's available and working locally when necessary.
I'd suggest using Apache Derby as the database (also available as Sun's Java DB, and possibly still IBM Cloudscape (does that still have DB2 compatibility in place?)).
I'm sure there's plenty of Web servers/Servlet containers about. Apache Tomcat is the obvious one. An alternative approach would be to use an embedded native browser within a single Java process. That approach should be relatively hassle free for users and tech support, and you can just use WebStart to install and update.
If you're using EJBs and other nonsense, then there are similar freebies about. I understand Sun Glassfish is nice and fast starting.
You could create an image of your server as a VMware instance and distribute it with a copy of VMware player (licensing allowing of course). Personally I'd build it on top of a Linux distribution like CentOS5.
You can bundle a JRE along with JETTY server and use a different database e.g HSQLDB (that you can bundle inside the webapp itself).
If you are using an ORM tool to connect to database, you might not have to make many code changes for this.
A lot of Application server distribute their admin consoles like this.For e.g Weblogic admin console runs offline (it uses internal ldap server for its database)
Also as far as Google gears is concerned, they are also pretty much doing the same thing.
They have a server that is bundled along with SQLDB and they allow to synchronize the data between online offline app.
You can sync the data too (use webservices in the online app) and talk over https from the offline app to sync the data, if you need the sync feature.
Also you can check this link
http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/2007/pdf/TS-69700.pdf