Why isn't there a system property that can be used to detect if a program is running on appengine?
This is really a glaring oversight. I would expect something like System.getProperty("google.appengine") to be "development" or "production" (or of course null). Before someone says "check the servlet context", realize that this is grossly inadequate - library writers do not have access to the servlet context. I'm trying to get the Hessian RPC library working on appengine so we have an easy-to-use web services protocol. One of the first things the hessian java client does is teardown any keepalive connections by making a quick request expired at 10ms. This terminates with a caught IOException in the normal world, but produces an ApiDeadlineExceededException in appengine. I'd like to simply short-circuit this unnecessary behavior when running on appengine. I found the SecurityManager check but that seems unreliable. Why isn't there a nice easy system property? Thanks, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.