Category: GAE/J
Any Interest in a Chatter / Spring / App Engine Tutorial?
June 30th, 2010, 2 Comments
Following up on yesterday’s post, Get Ready for VMForce – Here’s How!, I was thinking about putting together a series of tutorials on building a Chatter app on App Engine using Spring MVC with JDO. This will take considerable effort and I’m just wondering if it would be valuable to the Salesforce.com community. Tell me [...]
Integrate Chatter & Twitter on Google App Engine using OAuth
March 17th, 2010, No Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog. At Appirio we’ve been excited about Salesforce Chatter for quite a while. We firmly believe that Chatter has the potential to bridge the gap between enterprise applications and the way people work. We were luckily enough to receive special prerelease access to Chatter to develop our Social PS Enterprise [...]
AppWrench Thinks My Code Needs Help
December 14th, 2009, 2 Comments
One of my fellow Appirians sent me an email today pointing me to the AppWrench site. AppWrench is a profiling tool for App Engine that runs both locally (for free!) and for applications deployed on App Engine. In addition to profiling, you can also display Data Store and Memcache API calls as well as log files. [...]
Virtual File System for Google App Engine
October 23rd, 2009, 1 Comment
App Engine has a number of security restrictions that it imposes on applications. One that is often cited as a major source of frustration is the inability to read/write to a local file system. It looks like the developer community may have developed a workaround. Kyle Roche sent me a link to a GaeVFS, a [...]
Creating a Salesforce.com Robot with Google Wave and GAE/J
September 15th, 2009, No Comments
My buddy Kyle Roche has an awesome post today on how to create a Google Wave robot on App Engine that contributes to the conversation with information from Salesforce.com using the Force.com toolkit for Google App Engine. If you are not familiar with Google Wave check out this great intro video from Google I/O. You [...]
Rich Internet Applications Using Flex, Salesforce.com and Google App Engine
August 20th, 2009, 6 Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Technology Blog It’s fairly common these days to see Flex applications running inside Salesforce.com. But what if you’d like to run your Flex applications on another SaaS provider like Google App Engine or Amazon EC2. We are going to set up a simple Flex application that fetches Accounts and Opportunities from [...]
Need Input for Demo App using GWT and GAE/J
July 27th, 2009, 3 Comments
A couple of the guys and myself at Appirio are writing a beginning Google App Engine with Java book to be released this fall. We’ve locked down the functionality of the app we are going to be discussing in the book but I would like to put the app out to everyone and get any [...]












