[appengine-java] Re: Server Code for Chat Service / Matchmaking

2009-11-24 Thread Craig
Great, thank you for the clarification. Craig On Nov 23, 10:32 pm, Timothy Spear tsp...@green20now.com wrote: Craig,         The short answer is. No threads may not be spawned. Use the datastore   to update/change status for the users. Only use memcache for reference   information or

[appengine-java] Re: Server Code for Chat Service / Matchmaking

2009-11-23 Thread laphroaig15
I'm also interested to hear on this from more experienced GAE developers. My understanding so far is that you can only reliably maintain state by persisting data to the data store on every request. You can put objects into the memory cache, but since that's volatie, i.e. can be blown away at any