At this point I really don't know. GWT + json works fine for me using DWR.
I can throw GWT under appengine at the moment calling my java sevlets for authentication and data requests. To convert the servlets to python and run it all under appengine -- I don't know that would take. Sorry. On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Omer Shakil <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Shawn. Okay, Django will help me convert python objects to JSON, and > at the GWT end, you can use a standard JSON Parser, but besides that, all of > the rest you will never ever use, correct? Nothing wrong with that, but was > just curious, all this Django capabilities are of no use to you all of a > sudden. I havent looked too much in GWT yet, but I am sure it will cover for > the empty space well. > In general, would you recommend GWT + App Engine for developing something, > although there are many plus points in creating this division between client > and server end, but there are some hurdles too: what about user logins? will > you have to develop it all at client end too? How would you do user > authentication the App Engine way which was really straight forward before? > I would like to explore these hurdles and questions before I jump in. Both > of them are really powerful alone, but together, do they make a good system > or is it just too much hassle? > Thanks in advance for your input and thoughts. > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Shawn Brown <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> > I wanted to know what are the prospects of using Google App Engine with >> > the >> > Web Toolkit. I did some searches and read up on the documentation, it >> > seems >> > that the only way is to do JSON data transmission layer in the middle. >> > What about Django then? >> >> Have you read the docs on using Django to send JSON? >> >> >> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/serialization/?from=olddocs#id1 >> >> I don't use it myself but do use JSON and find that pretty easy to >> work with in GWT. >> >> Best, >> >> Shawn >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" 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-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
