Just to build on this. More inline below...
Matthew Woodward said the following on 24/06/10 17:57:
Many of these limitations are due to the restrictions of the GAE
environment. The major things that don't currently work on GAE are:
* cfpop/cfimap/cfftp
GAE does *not* allow for arbitrary network calls so this will be hard to
impossible to support unless Google builds some "network" API that can
be called.
The only reason that cfmail works is that is wraps the GAE mail API to
send mail.
* cfimage
GAE has been a quickly moving target. Not sure when cfimage will be
supported but if you need to do image manipulation -- you need to use
the GAE api for images (Java) that is available.
* cfsearch
Yeah, this would be hard and probably Google won't let things like
Lucene run on GAE -- they want the search market for themselves. You
could easily use Google Custom Search Engine (starts at $100/yr) and
they offer on-demand indexing too.
* web services
Accessing SOAP web services (arbitrary network call) won't ever be
supported unless GAE's platform changes. Doesn't mean you can't build
REST based web services that run on GAE that outsiders can call and
consume. Also, you probably consume REST based web services using
cfhttp (which is a wrapper for the GAE Url Fetch API).
HTH,
.Peter
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