Kirtan, If your app is going to be deployed on App Engine that it must be a web app. There are other Google Cloud offerings that would allow you to provision a virtual machine where a true service could run. On App Engine you could use cron jobs to run frequently and do your checking of database changes and sending of email updates. The cron would fire URL requests which would be web calls but without any user interface.
Jim On Monday, May 30, 2016 at 3:04:57 PM UTC-5, Kirtan Thakkar wrote: > > > Hi, I am a newbie in app engine. Trying to create my first app engine > project. I am finding it hard to create a module for an app engine. I am > trying to create a thread which runs in background 24x7 for some background > tasks in Java like, checking database changes to send out gcm messages and > email updates. As this is not a web application I read it fits as a module > (service) in the app engine environment. I am unable to find any sample / > docs to get started with the (default) module/service for the first time. > > I am using Eclipse with google plugin. However there isn't any option for > creating an app engine module. Only a web app option is there. Any other > software/IDE/plugins for creating a module/service? > > Am I missing something? Guide me as I am creating it for the first time. > > Any reference material/sample for getting started with the module/service > (no front-end) on app engine? > > Thank you, > Kirtan > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/22a736dc-039c-4ee4-a54c-fe3d215e700f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
