Re: Google App Engine

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Lussier
Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com writes: I was totally floored by the fact that I can deploy a servlet into Googles server farm, store data up there, and the 'free' limits are higher then many pay sites. Granted, no direct database access, but with JDO objects, they store it. Can you

Re: Google App Engine

2009-08-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Lussierp.luss...@comcast.net wrote: Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com writes:  I was totally floored by the fact that I can deploy a servlet into Googles server farm, store data up there, and the 'free' limits are higher then many pay sites.  Granted, no

Re: Google App Engine

2009-08-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 08/13/2009 12:32 PM, Paul Lussier wrote: Granted, no direct database access, but with JDO objects, they store it. Can you explain to us non-Java devs what this means exactly ? JDO is 'Java Data Objects' - a data storage abstraction. The app developer works with objects, and the back-end

Re: Google App Engine

2009-08-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Bill McGonigleb...@bfccomputing.com wrote: On 08/13/2009 12:32 PM, Paul Lussier wrote: Granted, no direct database access, but with JDO objects, they store it. Can you explain to us non-Java devs what this means exactly ? JDO is 'Java Data Objects' - a data

[GNHLUG] Request for participating in Hugo Corbucci's survey on developer communications tools

2009-08-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
It is not often that I ask for your help, and this help is not even for me, but for a young Brazilian friend of mine named Hugo Corbucci. Hugo is doing his Master's degree and is doing a survey of software tools that a developer and his team of people might use in doing communicationswell,