Hi Owen, Whoa! Have you looked at the Expenses sample app in GWT trunk? It runs on GAE with the App Engine Datastore.
http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/browse/#svn/trunk/samples/expenses%3Fstate%3Dclosed GWT-RPC or RequestFactory let you easily make AJAX calls to any servlet-based services, and how you implement those services is completely up to you. As far as debugging, you certainly can continue to use hosted mode debugging while deploying server-side code to an external server. See http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/FAQ_DebuggingAndCompiling.html#How_do_I_use_my_own_server_in_hosted_mode_instead_of_GWT's HTH, /dmc 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]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- David Chandler Developer Programs Engineer, Google Web Toolkit http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/ -- 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.
