Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-28 Thread Rafael
Hi De Witte, That would happen if you are successful. Imagine building a complex app using app engine. It's pretty difficult to stay away from modules. For example: imagine a social network scenario, where you have long running tasks competing with frontend requests. then put britney spears

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-28 Thread Rafael
sorry, my last phrase was confusing, I meant: That would happen if you are successful building a complex architecture using app engine On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Rafael mufumb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi De Witte, That would happen if you are successful. Imagine building a complex app

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-28 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
This is pretty much our experience of modules too - especially the maven integration feels half-baked. But we have a couple batch operations that run at midnight that require extra memory, and it sucks to have to pay for that all day. I think I've been one of the loudest people complaining about

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-28 Thread Rafael
Hi Jeff, I would describe mine as success too. Although, the only point of using appengine was the ease of development and that it would scale as we grew. 1) Ease of development is out of question with a big code base. 2) scale comes at the highest cost. Thanks Rafa On Feb 28, 2014 2:23 AM,

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-27 Thread de Witte
We don't use modules, why should you? Do you have a requirement which cannot be done without them? Op donderdag 27 februari 2014 02:58:56 UTC+1 schreef Rafael Sanches: De Witte, Do you have a multi module project? How do you handle that without module? The eclipse plugin doesn't work

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-27 Thread Tapir
How long is the warmup time of your app? Can you show the configuration file of your app? (appengine-web.xml) On Friday, February 28, 2014 1:02:28 AM UTC+8, de Witte wrote: We don't use modules, why should you? Do you have a requirement which cannot be done without them? Op donderdag 27

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-26 Thread de Witte
We have been working with Java and GAE for several years now and so far no problems. AngularJs + ExtJS 4.0 is a good combo for the front end. Although I prefer GWT. Spring+Maven is a headache even without GAE. We have been avoiding it and doing fine. Op maandag 24 februari 2014

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-26 Thread Rafael Sanches
De Witte, Do you have a multi module project? How do you handle that without module? The eclipse plugin doesn't work with that setup. thanks rafa On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:45 PM, de Witte wd.dewi...@gmail.com wrote: We have been working with Java and GAE for several years now and so far no

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-26 Thread Rafael
De Witte, Do you have a multi module project? How do you handle that without module? The eclipse plugin doesn't work with that setup. thanks rafa On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:45 PM, de Witte wd.dewi...@gmail.com wrote: We have been working with Java and GAE for several years now and so far no

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-23 Thread Tapir
On Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:47:28 PM UTC+8, Rafael Sanches wrote: Can you try and let us all know? it may be the solution you're looking for. The Google App Engine module for Play has not been updated for 2 years! :( For another one, Objectify ,

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-23 Thread Rafael
Not being updated doesn't mean it doesn't work properly. GAE + java is definitely frustrating, but some of your statements are a bit too broad ;) On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Tapir tapir@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:47:28 PM UTC+8, Rafael Sanches wrote: Can you

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-22 Thread Nick
Emanuele, I'm not going to disagree with your points, I think there is validity to what you say. I would like to make a counter-point though. I think that there are many standard 'good software engineering practices', which are only good in a historical and pragmatic sense. What i mean is that

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-22 Thread Rafael
Can you try and let us all know? it may be the solution you're looking for. On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Tapir tapir@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, February 21, 2014 5:39:17 AM UTC+8, Rafael Sanches wrote: Have you tried playframework? They have optimizations to make your life easier

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-20 Thread Rafael
Have you tried playframework? They have optimizations to make your life easier when developing. My life is living hell right now when developing with maven and appengine. The play framework solves that by running their own thing. Read more: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/1.0/gae

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-20 Thread Tapir
On Friday, February 21, 2014 5:39:17 AM UTC+8, Rafael Sanches wrote: Have you tried playframework? They have optimizations to make your life easier when developing. My life is living hell right now when developing with maven and appengine. The play framework solves that by running their

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-19 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:43:56 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:56:51 PM UTC+8, Rafael Sanches wrote: very interesting... can you tell me how you did that? in a maven build or only via eclipse? neither, I did it manually. ok, the new test result: 1. if

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-19 Thread Emanuele Ziglioli
Great stuff hope you don't move to Go too soon! On Thursday, 20 February 2014 03:52:33 UTC+13, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:43:56 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:56:51 PM UTC+8, Rafael Sanches wrote: very interesting... can you tell me how you

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-19 Thread Tapir
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 6:26:52 AM UTC+8, Emanuele Ziglioli wrote: Great stuff hope you don't move to Go too soon! Why? It is a way of no ways. On Thursday, 20 February 2014 03:52:33 UTC+13, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:43:56 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-18 Thread Tapir
Ok, I removed all core GAE jar files under SDK/lib/user Now the warmup time dropped from 5-7 seconds to 3-4 seconds. What is appengine-api-labs-1.x.x.jar? is it essential? And must the appengine-api-1.0-sdk-1.x.x.jar be included in the project war directory? On Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-18 Thread Rafael
very interesting... can you tell me how you did that? in a maven build or only via eclipse? On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Tapir tapir@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I removed all core GAE jar files under SDK/lib/user Now the warmup time dropped from 5-7 seconds to 3-4 seconds. What is

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-18 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:56:51 PM UTC+8, Rafael Sanches wrote: very interesting... can you tell me how you did that? in a maven build or only via eclipse? neither, I did it manually. ok, the new test result: 1. if I remove all jar files from the war/WEB-INF/lib, the warmup time is

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-18 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:43:56 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:56:51 PM UTC+8, Rafael Sanches wrote: very interesting... can you tell me how you did that? in a maven build or only via eclipse? neither, I did it manually. ok, the new test result: 1. if

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-18 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:43:56 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:56:51 PM UTC+8, Rafael Sanches wrote: very interesting... can you tell me how you did that? in a maven build or only via eclipse? neither, I did it manually. ok, the new test result: 1. if

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-18 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:43:56 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:56:51 PM UTC+8, Rafael Sanches wrote: very interesting... can you tell me how you did that? in a maven build or only via eclipse? neither, I did it manually. ok, the new test result: 1. if

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-18 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:43:56 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:56:51 PM UTC+8, Rafael Sanches wrote: very interesting... can you tell me how you did that? in a maven build or only via eclipse? neither, I did it manually. ok, the new test result: 1. if

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Friday, February 14, 2014 2:37:02 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Friday, February 14, 2014 2:13:20 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Friday, February 14, 2014 6:23:38 AM UTC+8, Nick wrote: Hi Tapir, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this '*I think it can't solve the warmup problem*'.

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-17 Thread Emanuele Ziglioli
Our warmup time was 15 seconds, then I looked at the hello world project that the GAE plugin generates with one servlet. That took 2 seconds to startup (once the servlet was hit). Then I added all the jars from our project but kept the same web.xml configuration. Startup time went up to almost

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:57:37 AM UTC+8, Emanuele Ziglioli wrote: Our warmup time was 15 seconds, then I looked at the hello world project that the GAE plugin generates with one servlet. That took 2 seconds to startup (once the servlet was hit). On F2 instance? Then I added all

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:04:16 AM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:57:37 AM UTC+8, Emanuele Ziglioli wrote: Our warmup time was 15 seconds, then I looked at the hello world project that the GAE plugin generates with one servlet. That took 2 seconds to startup

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-17 Thread Emanuele Ziglioli
Not sure where my reply went. On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:57:37 AM UTC+8, Emanuele Ziglioli wrote: Our warmup time was 15 seconds, then I looked at the hello world project that the GAE plugin generates with one servlet. That took 2 seconds to startup (once the servlet was hit). On F2

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-17 Thread Nick
I think (and previous guidance supports this) that it isn't the loading of the jars that is taking time, its actually fetching your war (and the files in it, so *down*loading the jars) that is taking so much elapsed time. The smaller your overall artifact, the quicker it can be pulled in and

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-17 Thread Emanuele Ziglioli
On Tuesday, 18 February 2014 11:50:20 UTC+13, Nick wrote: I think (and previous guidance supports this) that it isn't the loading of the jars that is taking time, its actually fetching your war (and the files in it, so *down*loading the jars) that is taking so much elapsed time. The

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-17 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:33:16 AM UTC+8, Emanuele Ziglioli wrote: Not sure where my reply went. On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:57:37 AM UTC+8, Emanuele Ziglioli wrote: Our warmup time was 15 seconds, then I looked at the hello world project that the GAE plugin generates with one

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-17 Thread Nick
Unfortunately no, i can't provide links. Working with appengine for a few years now, you tend to soak stuff up. Who knows whether it's current info. If i get some time I might try a basic benchmark. On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 10:31:17 AM UTC+11, Emanuele Ziglioli wrote: On Tuesday, 18

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-13 Thread Warren Strange
If you have a very large and complex Java application, it might be easier to simply run it (unchanged) on GCE rather than attempt to shorehorn it in to App Engine's architecture. You could migrate functionality to App Engine over time. You still have to manage GCE instances (they don't

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-13 Thread Nick
Hi Tapir, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this '*I think it can't solve the warmup problem*'. Unfortunately (for everyone) there's no real avoiding waiting for startup of your app with appengine right now. The best you can do is make it as quick as possible. The key is to avoid any

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-13 Thread Tapir
On Friday, February 14, 2014 6:23:38 AM UTC+8, Nick wrote: Hi Tapir, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this '*I think it can't solve the warmup problem*'. Unfortunately (for everyone) there's no real avoiding waiting for startup of your app with appengine right now. The best

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-13 Thread Tapir
On Friday, February 14, 2014 2:13:20 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Friday, February 14, 2014 6:23:38 AM UTC+8, Nick wrote: Hi Tapir, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this '*I think it can't solve the warmup problem*'. Unfortunately (for everyone) there's no real avoiding waiting

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-13 Thread Tapir
On Friday, February 14, 2014 2:13:20 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Friday, February 14, 2014 6:23:38 AM UTC+8, Nick wrote: Hi Tapir, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this '*I think it can't solve the warmup problem*'. Unfortunately (for everyone) there's no real avoiding waiting

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-13 Thread Tapir
On Friday, February 14, 2014 2:37:02 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Friday, February 14, 2014 2:13:20 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: On Friday, February 14, 2014 6:23:38 AM UTC+8, Nick wrote: Hi Tapir, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this '*I think it can't solve the warmup problem*'.

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-12 Thread Rafael
Warren, Compute engine wouldn't work with big table. Would it? It would require a large migration. In that case people would probably go full aws. On Feb 12, 2014 11:52 AM, Warren Strange warren.stra...@gmail.com wrote: Google Compute Engine would probably be a better option for a large

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-12 Thread Vinny P
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Rafael mufumb...@gmail.com wrote: Compute engine wouldn't work with big table. Would it? BigTable is available through the Cloud Datastore service. There's much more configuration involved than accessing it through App Engine, but it is possible:

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-12 Thread Tapir
On Thursday, February 13, 2014 7:17:18 AM UTC+8, Vinny P wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Rafael mufu...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Compute engine wouldn't work with big table. Would it? BigTable is available through the Cloud Datastore service. There's much more

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-12 Thread Tapir
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 11:48:44 PM UTC+8, Warren Strange wrote: Google Compute Engine would probably be a better option for a large legacy Java code base. Haven't noticed your reply before. Could you please explain more? On Friday, February 7, 2014 12:16:14 AM UTC-4, Tapir

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-11 Thread Warren Strange
Google Compute Engine would probably be a better option for a large legacy Java code base. On Friday, February 7, 2014 12:16:14 AM UTC-4, Tapir wrote: For the size of my project, I think it is impractical to port it to other languages. :( I tried python and go, their warmup time is very

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-11 Thread PK
Please define what is a large legacy Java code base”… PK http://www.gae123.com On February 11, 2014 at 6:52:14 PM, Warren Strange (warren.stra...@gmail.com) wrote: a large legacy Java code base -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-10 Thread Tapir
I really like the basic part of your framework, the python route config style and the simple view files. For it is also based on servlet, I think it can't solve the warmup problem. Bit I would give it a try in my later new projects. On Monday, February 10, 2014 5:29:32 AM UTC+8, Nick wrote:

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-10 Thread Tapir
On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:32:23 PM UTC+8, Tapir wrote: I really like the basic part of your framework, the python route config style and the simple view files. For it is also based on servlet, I think it can't solve the warmup problem. Bit I would give it a try in my later new

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-09 Thread Nick
Hi Tapir, You could give porting your spring app over to the thundr framework a go: http://3wks.github.io/thundr/ (usual disclaimer, I'm a maintainer) The basic concepts are very similar to spring, so it should be relatively simple. Its designed specifically to have fast boot up times on

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-08 Thread Rafael
Welcome to the club. People have been waiting for this for years. On Feb 6, 2014 8:16 PM, Tapir tapir@gmail.com wrote: For the size of my project, I think it is impractical to port it to other languages. :( I tried python and go, their warmup time is very short. For python, it is less

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-06 Thread Rafael
Depends on the size of your project. I started with plain java/jsp. As the project grew the overhead of maintenance was so big that we opted to moving everything to spring-mvc. That move increased the instance boot time from 7 to 35 seconds. In order to overcome cold startups we had to add 6

Re: [google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-06 Thread Tapir
For the size of my project, I think it is impractical to port it to other languages. :( I tried python and go, their warmup time is very short. For python, it is less than one second, for go, it is less than 0.5 second I think. But Java still has a big advantage: large quantity of libraries. So

[google-appengine] Have anyone tried to port a java project with heavy framworks, such as struts and spring, to a pure jsp/servlet project?

2014-02-05 Thread Tapir
Is it worth dong it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to