[appengine-java] Re: why the development of java tools fall far behind that of python's?

2011-05-26 Thread Mitch Rudominer
Tapir, thanks for your feedback. I agree that there have been several cases where features have come out in Python long before Java. (There have been a few in the other direction too, but not as many.) This is something we are trying to improve upon in the future. I'm happy to tell you that one of

Re: [appengine-java] Re: why the development of java tools fall far behind that of python's?

2011-05-26 Thread Max Ross (Google)
I would also point out that it is possible for Java apps to migrate from Master/Slave to High Replication: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/datastoreadmin.html#Copying_Entities_to_Another_Application Having to create an empty Python version of your app is no doubt clunky and not

Re: [appengine-java] Re: why the development of java tools fall far behind that of python's?

2011-05-26 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
+1 The primary benefit of GAE comes from the services (datastore, task queue, memcache, etc) and the language is pretty much secondary. Don't be afraid to set up the Python SDK - it's *really* trivial (especially compared to setting up Eclipse). You don't even need to learn any Python. Chances a