The moment i saw on dzone about the google appengine for java, i applied for an early bird account and i was promptly given an account in 24 hours. Its an coincidence or something my home ubuntu linux hosting my website was not able to be accessed , may be my port 80 was blocked by my ISP. Anyways i thought let me try to host my website on google appengine. I was able to host my website in couple of hours without any glitch.

The things i liked about the appengine are,
1. The eclipse plugin.
2. Jetty Server
3. The GWT plugin (good reason to learn GWT)
4. Ease of deployment to the cloud.
5. Gives avid java professional’s like me to use java based website instead of my previous drupal CMS based on php.
6. I saw one post on dzone about someone’s stint of seam on appengine (going to be my next task)
7. Use of google infrastructure api’s like Users authentication (in my website i use it for comments section), other things i get on appengine are my own domain email id ex. mani@maniezhilan.org (for which i had difficulties when tried postfix mailserver from my home ubuntu mainly due to my dynamic ip shooting emails…spammer mani).
8. I can use either JDO or JPA as persistence mechanism. My favorite is JPA.
9. It supports lot of different languages (including my mother tongue Tamil).


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