I doubt they are going to support 'threads.' You can do basically everything you asked for using the task queue now though.
Robert On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 08:16, MasterGaurav <gaurav.va...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > I assume you are referring to "Background servers capable of running > for longer than 30s" item at > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html > If that's the case, it's very different from the "threading" support. > > > -- > Happy Hacking, > Gaurav Vaish > http://www.mastergaurav.com > > > > On Oct 22, 3:39 pm, "David Parks" <davidpark...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> I saw on the roadmap that they want to implement something like this using >> background task servers, in which you can submit your tasks to a background >> server without the time limitations. It's not clear if they would allow >> multiple threads, but that's probably a mute point. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com >> >> [mailto:google-appeng...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of MasterGaurav >> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 4:57 PM >> To: Google App Engine >> Subject: [google-appengine] Thread Support on GAE >> >> Hi, >> >> Wondering is support for Thread is somewhere down the roadmap at GAE? >> >> The following structure is something that would be awesome: >> - Ability to start / control child threads in the app >> - Definitely, an upper cap on the maximum count >> - May be an upper limit on the time duration for which the thread can run >> - And the fundoo stuff... ability to enlist and terminate threads from the >> dashboard (may be this is too much of an ask) >> >> I understand there are several tough tasks related to managing them at >> the server end because they may run on any of the servers in the cloud... >> but nevertheless, it is doable... at least by G-Gang :) >> >> -- >> Happy Hacking, >> Gaurav Vaishhttp://www.mastergaurav.com >> >> -- >> 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-appeng...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > 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-appeng...@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. > > -- 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-appeng...@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.
