Good points! Having one year of experience with GAE my only hard complaint is the lack of polymorphism for the Java datastore (JDO queries), and the lack of strong type checking of datastore Entities (simply working with a map entity field is a nightmare if you use the low level API). This forces to re-engineer your data model in clumsy ways, any time you must model a tree data structure, even worse if your tree nodes need to contain different data (subclasses of a same base class)...of course, my app is full of these...
I guess this will be hard to get rid of, since everything seems to track back to the way keys are generated (ancestor, appID, etc.), but I hope some improvements will be available in the future. For the rest of the options, I completely agree with you. >>- JRE whitelisting - yeah, every company we've talked to has mentioned this. Unfortunately, every developer has different requirements. The whitelisting process is a bit more involved, as there are many security issues that need to be ironed out. I'd love to see the awt libraries available, personally. I hope too, since awt would open up to many PDF generation libraries and so, which are just impossible to use right now. Regards Lorenzo On Jan 11, 10:09 pm, George Moschovitis <george.moschovi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > - JDO - we've changed the documentation to show examples using the > > low-level API and are working more closely with third-party library > > developers. We've realized that there's a passionate community of open > > source developers out there solving their own itch (itches that are likely > > shared by others), and we're working on different ways of making it happen. > > Interesting, haven't noticed the changes in the docs (maybe a 'New!' marker > would help). It seems that the low level API is in the spotlight now. > No problem with that, but I 'd love to see improved support for static > typing (most probably through generics) in the API. > > -g. -- 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.
