Hi, Nice release!
I could not find any docs on the "Custom Admin Console pages" feature... Can you please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Viktor On Feb 11, 12:15 am, "Ikai L (Google)" <ika...@google.com> wrote: > Check it out! > > http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/02/app-engine-sdk-131-includ... > > <http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/02/app-engine-sdk-131-includ...>Here's > the post: > > App Engine SDK 1.3.1, Including Major Improvements to > Datastore!<http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/02/app-engine-sdk-131-includ...> > We are excited to announce the release of version 1.3.1 of the App Engine > SDK for both Python and Java. While this release contains plenty of new > features and fixes, we've concentrated on using our very first SDK release > of 2010 to improve the heart of many App Engine applications: the Datastore. > > Here are the three major improvements that 1.3.1 has in store for datastore > users: > > - *Datastore Query Cursors* - Cursors allow applications to save and > 'bookmark' their progress through a query, so that it can be resumed later. > This works great in combination with paging URLs, as well as processing in > the Task Queue API, but there are many other uses. Watch for an upcoming > blog post that explores Cursors in the near future. They're also really > handy in the context of the next change... > - *No more 1000 result limit* - That's right: with addition of Cursors > and the culmination of many smaller Datastore stability and performance > improvements over the last few months, we're now confident enough to remove > the maximum result limit altogether. Whether you're doing a fetch, > iterating, or using a Cursor, there's no limits on the number of results. > - *Reduced error rate with Automatic Datastore Retries* - We've heard a > lot of feedback that you don't want to deal with the Datastore's sporadic > errors. In response, App Engine now automatically retries all datastore > calls (with the exception of transaction commits) when your applications > encounters a datastore error caused by being unable to reach Bigtable. > Datastore retries automatically builds in what many of you have been doing > in your code already, and our tests have shown it drastically reduces the > number of errors your application experiences (by up to *3-4x error > reduction for puts, 10-30x for gets*). > > But even with our focus on the Datastore, we were able to sneak in a quite a > number of other new goodies into 1.3.1 as well: > > For Python, we've included the *AppStats* RPC instrumentation library. > AppStats lets users easily profile the performance of calls from their app > to the App Engine backend services to identify and isolate issues such as > ineffective caching, bottlenecks, and redundant RPC calls in their app. (A > Java version is in beta testing now.) > > And for Java, we've included a comprehensive new *unit-testing framework* for > your App Engine apps. The unit-testing framework enables you to test your > application code in a natural, fully supported manner, and also allows you > to integrate your App Engine apps into other existing testing and automation > frameworks. > > The list of changes in 1.3.1 goes on and on (Custom Admin Console pages! > Support for wildcard domain mappings! Java precompilation on by default for > all applications!), so make sure to > download<http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html> the > new version and read our release notes for the complete list > (Python<http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNotes> > , Java<http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkForJavaReleaseNotes> > ). > > Posted by the App Engine Team > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App > Enginehttp://googleappengine.blogspot.com|http://twitter.com/app_engine -- 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.
