I don't know the back story on ROO-1797, but the issue report is, I
think, not entirely accurate. The Expenses sample app that shipped
with Roo 1.1 and GWT 2.1.0 runs on App Engine with DataNucleus.

Given that Spring Roo seems oriented towards RDBMSs, it would not
surprise me if there were a lot of one-off code in Roo to support App
Engine's non-relational aspects. However, the Spring team demoed the
standard travel booking app running on App Engine with hosted SQL
(http://code.google.com/appengine/business/#features) at SpringOne in
October, so I don't think cloud portability is exactly a lost cause.

Even if it is, I'll take the simplicity and scalability of the
Datastore vs. the portability of an API for which required me to
consult a 408-page (and later, 841-page) reference manual every time I
started a new app. For me, Objectify made Java persistence coding fun
again, and words like "persistence manager lifecycle" and "detached
instance" are blissfully draining out of my vocabulary :-)

/dmc
http://turbomanage.wordpress.com

On Dec 5, 3:41 am, George  Moschovitis <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Dec 4, 6:56 am, John Howe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Is that another "wave" I see on the horizon ...
>
> the news on the cloud-portability front are disappointing too:
>
> https://jira.springsource.org/browse/ROO-1797
>
> Remove support for DataNucleus 1.x and Google App Engine
>
> Since none of Roo's sample apps can deploy to the app engine and given
> there are a lot of hacks in the Roo code to allow even the simplest of
> apps to run in the app engine, this task is to remove all the code
> that supports the app engine until full SQL support is available. This
> also has the added benefit of being able to drop support for JPA 1.0
> with the removal of DataNuclueus 1.x
>
> maybe another reason to update datanuclues-appengine to datanucleus
> 2.x ?
>
> -g.

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