Hi Andreas, Excellent article! I've posted it to the App Engine reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/AppEngine/comments/bk4kt/datastore_frameworks_the_interview/
Please feel free to post the followup article(s) there, too, to make sure they get a wide distribution! -Nick Johnson On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Andreas Borglin <andreas.borg...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all. > > I recently decided to migrate away from JDO to one of the third party > datastore frameworks. At first I had only heard about objectify, but > after some further digging I found out about 5 other frameworks as > well (Twig, SimpleDS, siena, slim3, cloud2db). > > I was only interested in simple wrapper frameworks that acted as a > convenience layer above the AppEngine low-level API. I _want_ the > framework to expose the true nature of the datastore, but at the same > time relieve the developer of the tedious tasks that's involved when > working with the low-level API directly. It is much easier to work > with the AppEngine datastore when its concepts, features, constraints > and limitations are exposed directly. You can read more about the > reasons for this in the article. > > This left me with objectify, Twig and SimpleDS. (siena and cloud2db > are multi-platform and slim3 is more than just a datastore framework) > > I spent some time researching these when I got the idea to write an > article about them. I contacted the authors for each framework and > asked if they would be interested in participating. Passionate as they > are, they agreed :-). Thanks to Jeff Schnitzer (objectify), John > Patterson (Twig) and Ignacio Coloma (SimpleDS) for this. > > The goal is to publish two articles; one interview with the authors, > and one where I solve some typical scenario with each framework. > The interview article has now been published and can be found at > http://borglin.net/gwt-project/?page_id=604 . > The code example article will be posted sometime in the upcoming two > weeks. > > -- > 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<google-appengine-java%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 -- 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.
