Merry Christmas. Surely an important use of cloud computing is creating services that can be shared?
So why not implement your "harvester" with an API that allows other apps, including your own, to read the database? i.e. other applications connect to your datastore through your application rather than some other magic. Wouldn't that be safer anyway? Michael On Dec 25, 4:46 am, Riyad <rka...@gmail.com> wrote: > bump > > On Dec 23, 9:50 pm, Riyad <rka...@gmail.com> wrote:> What is the > definedscopeof a datastore as used by your JDO/JPA code > > in a Java application deployed on GAE? Can you only insert/retrieve > > data for a pre-defined datastore associated with your running app, or > > can you connect to another application's datastore and insert/retrieve > > data from that data store as well? > > > Example: > > > Consider a very large data-mining application written and deployed on > > GAE as separate applications: > > > 1. Harvester -- application scrubs the web all day long looking for > > information and inserting it into it's data store. Lots of the new > > experiemntal Task API used here. > > > 2. Website -- website used by customers to search the compiled data, > > create accounts, and do other compelling things with it -- like rank > > it. This would be reading/updating data from App #1's datastore. > > > 3. Admin -- website used by admins to manually modify the information > > in the system -- again, manipulating the data from App #1's datastore. > > > Is this possible? Or would I just have to model this entire > > application as a single huge GAE application in order to allow all > > those pieces to share access to the datastore that the Harvester > > creates and maintains? > > > Thanks for the assist guys. > > > Best, > > Riyad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
