On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:10 AM, kusmi <[email protected]> wrote:
> But installing the "beast" is really a headache... E.g. I'm using Google > App Engine within Eclipse and expected to just use the GCS as part of the > standard Google App Engine jars - but to integrate GCS I have to install an > additional GCS client jar - so long so good, but this library has > dependencies to approx. 10 other jars... > > Of course I could just migrate everything to use Maven (and I tried to > upgrade my project to use maven) - but I don't like the automatic update of > external libraries. I would really like to see a more streamlined > GCS-client lib - make it easy for developers, not harder ;-) > You can always avoid the JARs by using Cloud Storage via the JSON <https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/> or XML <https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/xml-api-overview> APIs. They're fairly easy to use directly, especially if you don't mind manipulating requests at a low level. As for avoiding automatic updates from Maven, you can specify the version number of the external library you want using the version tag: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Importing_Dependencies ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Consultant Chicago, IL App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
