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GAE datastore resources

Posted by: Andrew Glover on 05/13/2010

While I’m a big fan of leveraging Google’s low-level API Entity class (as decorated by Gaelyk) for persisting data into GAE’s underlying datastore, there are some up-and-coming frameworks that are worth examining. Both frameworks note the challenges with JDO and like me, prefer to work with Entity types. Each framework has a good deal of documentation too. Without further ado, check out:

It appears that at the moment, Twig is a bit less verbose (with respect to coding) but each framework supports a wide range of hip features.

Don’t forget to check out Gaelyk (which is a super slick Groovy framework for GAE) and while you’re at it, read “Schemaless data modeling with Bigtable and Groovy’s Gaelyk” for a layman’s approach to data modeling with Entity objects.

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Andrew is the founder of the easyb BDD framework and the co-author of Addison Wesley's "Continuous Integration", Manning's "Groovy in Action" and "Java Testing Patterns". He is an author for multiple online publications including IBM's developerWorks and Oreilly's ONJava and ONLamp portals. He actively blogs about software at thediscoblog.com.

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