Thanks. This is very helpful. I successfully built an example Clojure service on GAE last week working from http://flowa.fi/blog/2014/04/25/clojure-gae-howto.html?lang=en . Looking forward to reading through your examples.
Cheers, Nicholas On Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 4:49:43 AM UTC+10, Gregg Reynolds wrote: > > Hi list, > > If you have any interest in Clojure on Google App Engine you might want to > take a look at migae <https://github.com/migae/migae>. Currently it just > contains several basic demos showing how to structure Clojure apps on GAE, > running from raw java interop, to ring, to compojure, to compojure-api. > Dynamic code reloading makes rapid development possible. Not quite a true > repl, but almost as good for servlet development at least. > > The technique is straightforward and surprisingly simple, but has not (to > my knowledge) been explained or demoed before. (A web search for "clojure > on app engine" turns up surprisingly few recent results.) It turns out to > be very easy to have multiple servlets, filters and a quasi-repl using > basic techniques (and some minor hackery) rather than a specialized > library. It's not at all like appengine-magic. AE-magic is fine, but it's > a little long in the tooth, and more important, Google's switch to a > gradle-based build system renders much of AE-magic's logic unnecessary. > Also, I wanted the service libs to be independently usable. > > I'd appreciate any feedback, especially on my explanation of how it works > - why dynamic loading works even though everything is aot-compiled. I'm > not entirely sure I understand how Clojure's loading mechanism dovetails > with the servlet/jvm loading mechanism, so I made an educated guess. Also, > I've tried to make the README relatively basic so those not familiar with > servlet programming can grok it. > > As for GAE service libraries, that'll take a while, and it's probably too > much for me alone, so any who wants to help out is welcome. I've got what > I think is a promising approach to the Datastore API but will describe that > in another message. > > Thanks, > > Gregg > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
