Currently i try to connect (via JPA/Datanucleus) with an application, hosted by Google App Engine, to the database service of database.com (Salesforce)
After many hours of reading and trying, i could not find any solution.
So, is it even possible??
Some Information....
Database.com provides JPA: http://forcedotcom.github.com/java-sdk/jpa-provider, but i could not found any sdk on this side, but i found a jar-file hosted by grepcode http://grepcode.com/snapshot/repo1.maven.org/maven2/com.force.sdk/force-jpa/22.0.7-BETA/ - Possibly there is currently no official release ...
The problem is that this SDK from Salesforce needs datanucleus 2.0, but Google App Engine includes only datanucleus 1.1.5. So i try to update theses libaries and found this.... code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/ . I tried a few hours to replace the old libaries and to use the newer, but unsuccessfully. The error was that eclipse could not find some libaries, because the newer libaries, provided by the side above, have different package structure -
I am thankful for any help...
Kotake
The official release of the JPA provider is available on Maven Central:
http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=com/force/sdk/force-jpa/22.0.7-BETA/force-jpa-22.0.7-BETA.jar
The external connection restriction won't be a limiting factor because the JPA adapter connects to Database.com over https using a SOAP API.
I can't speak to the challenges around getting DN 2.0 running on GAE. Perhaps GAE support can help with that?
As stated here in the App Engine docs, you cannot make direct connections to external servers from GAE (except over http or https using the app engine specific url APIs). You will need to find some other way to get data out of your remote database.
This link describes how to solve your problem:
How to use Force.com Database SDK on Google APP Engine
(He has updated the Saleforce SDK source code to allow it to work without problem on GAE.)
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I've started developing for GAE (Google App Engine) and I want to build a REST API using Google Cloud SQL. I currently have a web app in App Engine that works well with Google Cloud SQL but I need to build an API to provide REST services for Android and iOS or any other technology capable of consume web-services.
I've read many docs in Google about Mobile Backend Starter, Endpoints, etc. I'm not pretty sure how to integrate with my existing Cloud SQL Database. I think I'm almost near to get what I need.
If someone knows a tutorial or documentation to achieve what I need, please share it in here.
Thanks!
I've found what I needed!
If anyone tries to implement Google Cloud Endpoints using Google Cloud SQL, Python with Django, please follow this tutorial You will be able to build a RESTful API with your existing Django Models.
Also, here's a Youtube Video from GDL which explains very well how to use ProtoRPC for Python and build your Google Cloud Enpoints APIs. ProtoRPC is a framework for implementing HTTP-based remote procedure call (RPC) service.
i am currently doing a project as one of my university projects and it uses Google maps and right now i am using a postgresql database which is on my localhost but i want to host it some where else i couldn't find any free hosting for postgres and i don't know whether i can use Google App engine or Fusion tables to do it. i am using postgres and php to manipulate data and generate KML files. Google Maps V3 javascript API as the front end
any suggestions ?
Thanks !!
PHP is one of the most requested features, but it is not yet supported in GAE, so your PHP code is useless. In the future, hosted SQL databases seem to be part of Google plans to provide "Enterprise features" in GAE, stay tuned because that could simplify what you need to do.
Currently, in case that:
your site is implemented as a Java EE or Python web appliaction
you are already using JPA/JDO (only in the Java EE case)
you are not doing JOIN statements (not supported in GAE)
Or even if your service/dao layers are already well isolated, it would be possible to host your "denormalized" database (it would not be a postgres service) and your frontend in GAE without too much effort.
I'm trying to deploy one of my java apps in GAE and I have used MongoDB. Unfortunately GAE doesn't allow me to create databases, however it suggests using Google Datastore. Are there any plugins or add-ons to use MongoDB.
You can't run MongoDB on GAE. You need to use the Google datastore.
Matt is right. If you want to deploy to Google's servers you can't use Mongo. If you are interesting in running your own server(s), check out AppScale.
If you really want to use MongoDB anyway, you'll have to find a third-party host that provides a REST interface through which you can make your transactions. I've personally tried and recommend MongoLab on App Engine. Then, in your code, use an HttpUrlConnection object to send/receive requests if you're doing it with Java.
I think you could deploy your app on app engine and create a separate vm instance in google compute engine that would have mongo installed, then you plug your GAE app on that vm for the db connection. This would allow you to keep all your app in the google cloud. See https://cloud.google.com/solutions/mongodb/ and http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/platforms/google-compute-engine/
A lot of things have changed since this question has been asked, as of June 2021, you can use MongoDB Atlas with Google App Engine Standard running on Java 8 environment. I built my App with the Ktor framework that runs on App Engine and interacts with databases on MongoDB Atlas.
if you're still looking for an answer to this you might want to check this project that did exactly the same but in reverse, it will surely help you out with what you want to do.
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django-nonrel.html
you can use mongo, only if have something like on mongolab then use pymongo to connect and most important thing you need to enable socket api from gae dashboard.
it worked for me thanks
I want to export the datastore that I have running in App Engine into my local "standalone" version of the application. Anyone know how I can do that?
I've been looking around in the App Engine dashboard but can't find it.
Check out the docs on uploading and downloading data.
Gobo-Tools is designed for such tasks
It seems that there is no separate doc for java version of this except that it is said to do with com.google.apphosting.utils.remoteapi.RemoteApiServlet in the doc Nick provided.
Tip: If you have a Java app, you can use the Python appcfg.py tool by installing the Java
version of the remote_api handler, which is included with the Java runtime environment.
The handler servlet class is com.google.apphosting.utils.remoteapi.RemoteApiServlet.
Here is some relevant code example for java version of this API usage GAE/J datastore backup
I have my website currently hosted on paid server, but i want to transfer it on GAE.
How can i do it? Can anyone please help me in this case.I'd appreciate your help.
Thanks:)
1) First you will have to adapt your website to the GAE framework (python with django or the new Java environment). You can test your work by downloading the SDK of GAE which offer a local server.
2) Then create an account on appengine.google.com and upload your application on something.appspot.com, test it.
3) If you have a domain name, create a google apps account on this domain, and finally bind this domain with your GAE website. Here is the Google doc.
If it is just a static website which does not need server side scripts or a database, then you might want to look into Google Sites instead of Appengine. You can find out more about Sites here: http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html
If you do have some server side logic going on, you will need to convert it to either python or java and convert your relational database to Google's Data API which does not support the SQL your current database uses. You can read more about the APIs and what is supported with the Data API and tutorials at: http://code.google.com/appengine/
In response to sanorita's comment "Actually, it's generated html and not plain html. and google appengine is for static data... right?":
AppEngine can host static data, but that is far from its intent.
The purpose of AppEngine is to allow developers to easily deploy their dynamic applications on Google's infrastructure. In the end, assuming you have programmed your app in effective ways to handle scaling (basically just noting that writes to the database are expensive, and contention is the root of all evil) you can handle nearly any amount of traffic.