*don't exist if you use a toolkit that maps Entities to typesafe classes.

That's not to say mapped classes aren't useful; they're probably the 95%
case. But for that 5%, it's nice to be able to pull additional tricks out of
your toolbelt.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Ikai L (Google) <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think learning the low-level API is a must for all Java developers. It
> opens your mind to possible solutions that don't exist. With
> JDO/JPA/Objectify/db.Model, every Entity has the same schema because that
> makes it easier to map data to object definitions. With the low-level API,
> you can have dynamically named properties, partial indexes (Objectify
> supports this), and you understand the distinction between empty and null
> properties.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Jaroslav Záruba <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> That's yet another 'proof' for me that Objectify should replace JDO in
>> GAE, officially! :P
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Dmitriy T. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The author of this article just underqualified.
>>>
>>> For example:
>>> "So I took to writing the service in Python. I quickly realized that
>>> Python had much more control over the datastore. It was really easy to
>>> pick which fields to index and which fields to ignore. In Java, all
>>> fields were indexed."
>>>
>>> He even don't know how to make unindexed property in Java. About Java
>>> GAE low-level API or about Objectify he probably know nothing.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 10, 1:19 am, Francois Masurel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > I've just found this article about App Engine :
>>> >
>>> > http://moderndeveloper.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-app-engine-scaling.
>>> ..
>>> >
>>> > They say that Python is 50% faster than Java for their specific use
>>> > case.
>>> >
>>> > Does that mean that we should preferably use Python for heavy traffic
>>> > services ?
>>> >
>>> > Francois
>>>
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