Re: Database data and GWT applications

You can use gwt & the App Engine Datastore but you have to use the App Engine Datastore api. There is no connection string required. Check out google docs for the app engine datastore.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:20 PM, OS <osavill@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

This is my first posting here so I'm sorry if all this has been
covered before.

I've come to GWT from a J2EE background. I though GWT would be a great
way of combining data mining at the backend with a nice UI at the
front. However, I've fallen over at the first hurdle. Apparently GWT
will not permit database connections with the Google App Engine. Ok,
that's pants, but I'll move over to TomCat. But this is not as easy as
it sounds either. There is no Deploy action available and I'm not a
server admin. The instructions I've found on the web appear complex
and to top it all it seems I'm going to loose debugging features.

Have I missed the point about GWT? is it not really intended for
database driven applications?! What exactly is it for? After all, the
database and server root are on the same Intranet server and security
is pretty tight. Is it that the GAE is just not up to the job right
now but it will be coming.

Is there an easy way of using TomCat and keeping the debugging
ability? I can deploy the application / WAR to TomCat but I can't even
figure out how to get the GWT Eclipse plugin to launch it from the new
server, let alone debug the application!

If Eclipse won't do this then I might as well go back to doing this
long hand in NetBeans!!

Help!!!!

Thanks,
Owen

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