In the meantime, you might consider Google Base-- it's far from ideal in many ways, but it works for many apps and I've launched several high volume apps on it. http://base.google.com/
For apps with requirements Base can't meet including commercial apps, I've heard good things about Lucene, and you could run this on a commercial VPS (I've had good luck with linode.com) or hosting facility, e.g. Amazon EC2. adam (Google engineer) On Apr 8, 9:21 pm, surya <suryapraka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yea I completely agree , why don,t they allow us to tap into the > search prowess , instead addding questionable language support . I am > a java programmer by day , but I was comfortable with python in few > days , not sure if there is even a demand for new languages by serious > users. > > On Apr 8, 9:15 am, Jonathan Feinberg <e.e.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Long ago I attracted a flame-fest when I expressed my opinion that > > adding support for other programming languages should be given less > > priority than fixing bugs and adding infrastructural features. Here we > > are, months later, and the big announcements are > > > 1) Java (my God, why?) > > > and > > > 2) Cron jobs (...but I could already write cron jobs to hit a URL) > > > In the meantime, full-text search is not even on the roadmap. > > > I'm torn. As the creator of Wordle, I'm truly grateful to Google and > > the GAE team for the use of an automatically-scaling app > > infrastructure. It has been a pleasure to use. On the other hand, the > > lack of search has been a huge problem for Wordle users, and I've got > > no good options. > > > I acknowledge that search is my pet issue; I don't claim to represent > > a community or interest group with these comments. Then again, I can't > > think of a CRUD-style app that doesn't require or benefit from text > > search. So, while I'd consider using GAE in the future for some > > stateless utility micro-site, or maybe a static site, I won't use it > > again for anything with user-created data. While I've begun to regret > > having used it for Wordle, I admit that it's my own fault for not > > having thought through the implications of having no full-text search > > available. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
