Like Ian said, don´t use Tomcat, use GAE Eclipse plugin for development.
For debuging in this enviroment, one option is testing your application through Unit Testing (http://code.google.com/intl/en/ appengine/docs/java/tools/localunittesting.html). There is no need to generate a wtp project, the plugin itself can deploy application. Maybe showing one small application with the simple deploy tool, with hot deploy and deploying different versions of your app straightforward can be good arguments for you manager. Good luck On 26 nov, 14:22, sombriks <sombr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello and thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. > > Indeed i miss so much hot swap, debug, or even the regular project > facet as seen in a ordinary wtp project. > > I just feel uncomfortable convincing my manager the real cause of > slowdown and having to re-teach the team how to work on a java-web > project. > > That's why i asked for ways to mimetize GAE server inside tomcat. More > specifically how to use a wpt project and simply deploy on the target > in the end. > > I didn't archived much, for now i have the appengine-web.xml inside > WEB-INF but the project isn''t "google-enabled". i use appcfg from > command line to deploy. > > On 9 nov, 11:46, Ian Marshall <ianmarshall...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I did this at first (using a MySQL database with my Tomcat), but this > > was a mistake. > > > Even though it was nice to step through my code during debug, I lost > > the following things by not developing using the GAE/J development web > > server: > > > · The GAE datastore behaves differently to a MySQL database, even > > though I was using JDO as my persistence abstraction layer. > > · The GAE/J dev server matches GAE/J production servers better than > > Tomcat. > > · Enqueued tasks. > > · And many more... > > > Don't make my mistake: develop against the GAE web server, and the GAE > > datastore, from the start! > > > On Nov 3, 2:50 am, sombriks <sombr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > how to develop on tomcat and deploy on GAE? > > > > anyone had such setup? if yes, pleas share your experience -- 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.
