Tag Archives | appengine

Weekend fun with the Dutch Railways API

By on April 4, 2011 in General

Recently, Dutch Rail (called NS in Holland) made an API available. I thought I would put it to use.

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Tricking Google Appengine into compiling jspx files

By on June 16, 2010 in General

I ran into a little gotcha the other day. Appengine was refusing to compile and process my .jspx files. The solution was horribly simple.

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Appengine persistence: just say no to JPA and JDO?

By on March 30, 2010 in General

I have been experimenting with writing an application for the Java edition of Google Appengine, which I blogged about before. Back then, I was still trying to use JPA with the Datastore, but the longer I was trying, the more I got the feeling that JPA (and JDO)  just don’t fit Google’s Datastore very well. [...]

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Java on Appengine with Spring: not a walk in the park

By on March 16, 2010 in General

Over the past few weeks I’ve been experimenting with Google Appengine. Its benefits are well documented, but when you actually dive into development there’s a few things that are troublesome for those developers that are used to deploying Spring based applications on say, Apache Tomcat. This posting is not an appengine-bashing, it just mentions a [...]

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