You can use gwt & the App Engine Datastore but you have to use the App Engine Datastore api. There is no connection string required. Check out google docs for the app engine datastore.
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:20 PM, OS <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > This is my first posting here so I'm sorry if all this has been > covered before. > > I've come to GWT from a J2EE background. I though GWT would be a great > way of combining data mining at the backend with a nice UI at the > front. However, I've fallen over at the first hurdle. Apparently GWT > will not permit database connections with the Google App Engine. Ok, > that's pants, but I'll move over to TomCat. But this is not as easy as > it sounds either. There is no Deploy action available and I'm not a > server admin. The instructions I've found on the web appear complex > and to top it all it seems I'm going to loose debugging features. > > Have I missed the point about GWT? is it not really intended for > database driven applications?! What exactly is it for? After all, the > database and server root are on the same Intranet server and security > is pretty tight. Is it that the GAE is just not up to the job right > now but it will be coming. > > Is there an easy way of using TomCat and keeping the debugging > ability? I can deploy the application / WAR to TomCat but I can't even > figure out how to get the GWT Eclipse plugin to launch it from the new > server, let alone debug the application! > > If Eclipse won't do this then I might as well go back to doing this > long hand in NetBeans!! > > Help!!!! > > Thanks, > Owen > > -- > 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]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- Jeff -- 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.
