Hi David, I assume you are referring to "Background servers capable of running for longer than 30s" item at http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html If that's the case, it's very different from the "threading" support.
-- Happy Hacking, Gaurav Vaish http://www.mastergaurav.com On Oct 22, 3:39 pm, "David Parks" <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw on the roadmap that they want to implement something like this using > background task servers, in which you can submit your tasks to a background > server without the time limitations. It's not clear if they would allow > multiple threads, but that's probably a mute point. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MasterGaurav > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 4:57 PM > To: Google App Engine > Subject: [google-appengine] Thread Support on GAE > > Hi, > > Wondering is support for Thread is somewhere down the roadmap at GAE? > > The following structure is something that would be awesome: > - Ability to start / control child threads in the app > - Definitely, an upper cap on the maximum count > - May be an upper limit on the time duration for which the thread can run > - And the fundoo stuff... ability to enlist and terminate threads from the > dashboard (may be this is too much of an ask) > > I understand there are several tough tasks related to managing them at > the server end because they may run on any of the servers in the cloud... > but nevertheless, it is doable... at least by G-Gang :) > > -- > Happy Hacking, > Gaurav Vaishhttp://www.mastergaurav.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
