Jérôme, That is really cool. I was quite sure I was missing some point !
Are you not worried nevertheless to sync compatible changes between org.restlet/ and org.restlet.gae/ in the long term ? For example when ServerResource evolves or for bug fixes. Best regards, Rémi On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:09, Jerome Louvel <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Remi, > > As long as the extension only relies on GAE's white listed JRE classes, it > will work without any modification (example: the FreeMarker extension). Your > dream can come true already :-) > > In the recent version of "org.restlet.gae.jar", the packages are the same > as in "org.restlet.jar" so it should be easy to leverage Restlet extensions > that are compatible with GAE. > > As a result, it should be possible to deploy existing Restlet applications > in GAE without any modification, as long as their are compatible with GAE's > environment of course. > > Best regards, > Jerome Louvel > -- > Restlet ~ Founder and Lead developer ~ http://www.restlet.org > Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ http://www.noelios.com > > > > ------------------------------ > *De :* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *De la part de > * Rémi Dewitte > *Envoyé :* mercredi 15 avril 2009 23:02 > *À :* [email protected] > *Objet :* Re: Re: Google AppEngine and Restlet > > Jérôme, > > As far as I understand, we can't reuse Restlet extensions made for > org.restlet.* with org.restlet.gae.* classes, can we ? > I have thought at a time that GAE would be a deployment option for our > restlet applications. With the gae copy, we may not reuse an application as > straitforward as I may have dreamed. I see Restlet extensible enough not to > have to copy the full code base. Would that dream have been possible with > 1.1 with the API and Engine separation ? > > Why should not we support this scenario ;) ? > > Thanks, > Rémi > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 22:29, Jerome Louvel <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Richy, >> >> Thanks for sharing your experience! >> >> When I did the adaptation of Restlet to GAE (resulting in the new >> "org.restlet.gae.jar" available in recent snapshots), I took the source >> code >> and had to remove many classes that didn't compile due to the lack of >> sockets and SSL support (mainly the internal connectors). >> >> I'm surprised that the "org.restlet.jar" works despite this and I'm not >> sure >> if we should support this usage scenario. In addition, >> "org.restlet.gae.jar" >> includes the ServerServlet, the JavaMail and the JDK's Net connectors. In >> the future, it will leverage other GAE APIs. >> >> Regarding FreeMarker, the ContextTemplateLoader I just added to SVN trunk >> will probably help simplifying its usage in GAE with Restlet. Let me know >> if >> you have a chance to test it. >> >> Best regards, >> Jerome Louvel >> -- >> Restlet ~ Founder and Lead developer ~ http://www.restlet.org >> Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ http://www.noelios.com >> >> >> >> -----Message d'origine----- >> De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> Envoyé : samedi 11 avril 2009 14:49 >> À : [email protected] >> Objet : RE: Re: Google AppEngine and Restlet >> >> After a bit of experimentation I have managed to get a Restlet/Freemarker >> stack running on GAE. >> >> The basic steps I took were : >> >> 1. Modify ServletConverter and ServletContextAdapter as detailed below. >> >> Basically this means replacing the calls to new ServletLogger with >> Logger.getLogger e.g. in the ServletConverter constructor do something >> like... >> >> super(new Context(Logger.getLogger(ServletConverter.class.getName()))); >> >> 2. Add org.freemarker.jar, org.restlet.jar, org.restlet.ext.servlet.jar >> and >> org.restlet.ext.freemarker.jar to the WEB-INF/lib of your google app >> project >> and add to the build path. >> >> 3. Follow usual setup for getting Restlet working in a Servlet >> environment. >> Folow the HelloWorld tutorial in the getting started docs - it should >> work >> fine locally (even without doing step 1. However, you'll need to replace >> these calls in order to get it to run in the real GAE) >> >> 4. Freemarker was a little more tricky, but not much. Create a >> freemarker >> configuration that uses the class template loader and put this in the >> Restlet Application context attributes. >> >> 5. Make sure your templates are somewhere on the class path. >> >> 6. Use the TemplateRepresentation along with your freemarker config from >> the >> context attributes >> >> 7. Make sure it works locally and upload to the app engine. >> >> Hopefully I'll get a chance to write this up properly over easter, but it >> wasn't too bad and looks promising so far. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Richy >> http://wiredupandfiredup.com >> >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> >> http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=16485 >> 97 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> >> http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=1732294 >> > > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=1743103
