I have also been getting constant deployment errors with Java deployment for the past couple days, seems like something is funny on the google side, don't think my connection is flaky:
Nov 9, 2010 7:18:59 AM com.google.apphosting.utils.config.AbstractConfigXmlReader getTopLevelNode SEVERE: Received IOException parsing the input stream for /home/erik/ workspace/wikihop/war/WEB-INF/web.xml java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) ... SEVERE: Received exception processing /home/erik/workspace/wikihop/war/ WEB-INF/web.xml com.google.apphosting.utils.config.AppEngineConfigException: Received IOException parsing the input stream for /home/erik/workspace/wikihop/ war/WEB-INF/web.xml at com.google.apphosting.utils.config.AbstractConfigXmlReader.getTopLevelNode(AbstractConfigXmlReader.java: 210) ... Bad configuration: Received IOException parsing the input stream for / home/erik/workspace/wikihop/war/WEB-INF/web.xml Caused by: Connection timed out -- 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.