Today I read about the very cool hackfest project coming up at OpenCF Summit:
http://blog.opencfsummit.org/announcing-the-opencf-summit-2011-hackfest Since I'd never played with OpenBD on GAE, I figured this was a good opportunity to try it out. I installed the GAE plugin into Eclipse and created a new GAE project. I downloaded the openbd-gae zip. I copied the contents of the war folder from that into the war folder of the new project. Right-click > Run As... > Web Application and http://localhost:8888 is running Open BlueDragon. Nice. Edit the <application> tag and click the deploy button... and http://2.seancorfield.appspot.com/ is running OpenBD! (the first version was just Hello World! in Python :) OK, that was pretty painless. Impressive. That was on my desktop system so I repeated the process on my little Ubuntu netbook just as smoothly: http://3.seancorfield.appspot.com/ I put FW/1 up on the next version of the app but several of the examples don't work because they rely on some of the newer CFML features (struct / array literals etc). Given that the GAE stuff is being merged into the mainline, how long will it be before there's an updated GAE version with feature parity? Just curious. Anyways, I'm looking forward to the hackfest, which I think is a great idea and will be a great chance for everyone to experience GAE! -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood -- tag/function ref: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en Get to Texas in Feb for OpenCFSummit http://www.opencfsummit.org/
