Re: [appengine-java] Re: Why is it called "Google App Engine for Java" ?

2009-11-30 Thread Jess Evans
There are innovators who "attempt" to advance the field and be the first. They appeal to the desperate and the early adopters with nothing to loose and much to gain. There are guardians with deep experience who strive to ensure reliability and predictability. They appeal to those upon whom many a

Re: [appengine-java] Any rules product that works on AppEngine?

2009-11-30 Thread Jess Evans
I'm still waiting on defect 2430 wrt drools. I haven't had the opportunity yet to pull down the gae codebase and attempt to divine the root cause. Star the defect if it's important to you. On Nov 30, 2009 2:16 PM, "niraj" wrote: Based on query on this forum on Drools seems like DROOLS does not

Re: [appengine-java] First Request High CPU

2009-11-30 Thread Jess Evans
Will there be a way to separate start up activity from request activity, so that initial requests will not be killed prematurely with a deadline exceeded error? On Nov 30, 2009 5:15 PM, "Toby Reyelts" wrote: Hi Jeff, First, it's definitely a net win for us to spin down an application if it does

Re: [appengine-java] Re: Text Search Support for Java

2009-12-03 Thread Jess Evans
The compass solution is probably sufficient for pet projects. If I correctly recall, there are still serious scalability issues due to the way indexes are currently stored and restrictions on app store blob size. The main issue is initial timeouts due to the GAE design flaw wrt startup / initial

Re: [appengine-java] possible to split web.xml ?

2009-12-07 Thread Jess Evans
You might try leveraging one of the MVC frameworks which supports inheritance for its action mapping files. Xdoclet may be another alternative worth investigating for a lower level build time composition of web.xml (although I haven't used it in the GAE / Eclipse context). It was a great ant tool

Re: [appengine-java] Slow response time under load

2009-12-14 Thread Jess Evans
Can that be clarified a bit? GAE concurrent requests are capped below 10 and 1/3 sec response time is considered a long request? This doesn't seem realistic compared to non-trivial 3-tier JEE clusters where an installation might support upwards of 100+ open sockets and a looong transaction might

Re: [appengine-java] GetObjectByID JDO question (NucleusObjectNotFoundException)

2009-12-21 Thread Jess Evans
Be wary of a try/get/catch/persist combo. I was doing this initially, but found it triggered a memory leak. I resorted to a query by business key. I can't confirm whats most efficient. It's certainly not in terms of index storage overhead. I just wanted to throw out the warning. On Dec 21, 20

Re: [appengine-java] Newbie HttpSession questions

2009-12-28 Thread Jess Evans
The memcache is volatile without a well defined contract for expiration, so it alone is not sufficient to support session behavior. A memcached entity is more like a SoftReference in contract. Well a globally shared SoftReference with, presumably, some cross JVM network serialization overhead (t

Re: [appengine-java] Re: TaskQueue 10s limit? really?

2010-01-11 Thread Jess Evans
Swap-ping from memory to cheaper persistent storage Space...whoever heard of such a thing. (ducks) This is where a nice, easy to find architectural whitepaper would likely obviate such impertinent questioning. On Jan 11, 2010 2:26 AM, "jd" wrote: Tasks can use 30 seconds before a DeadlineExcee