Thanks Nick :-). On Mar 30, 12:53 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Excellent article! I've posted it to the App Engine > reddit:http://www.reddit.com/r/AppEngine/comments/bk4kt/datastore_frameworks... > > 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%2B > > unsubscr...@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
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