Posts Tagged ‘Google App Engine’
Grails on The Google App Engine: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
I’ve been playing with Grails and the Google App Engine for about a month. Overall, I’ve been very happy about the experience. There seem to be a few questions and misconceptions about the app engine and Grails, both on forums, blogs and the Grails mailing list. I thought I would put together a quick summary for those looking for more information about deploying on this platform. Read the rest of this entry »
Flex on Grails: Building an image transformation tool with the Google App Engine, Flex and Grails
In this screencast, I show how to use Flex, Grails and the Google App Engine’s image service to quickly build an online image resizing and rotation tool.
- Part 1: Application introduction and walkthrough of the Flex Front End.
- Part 2: Embedding your swf into your Grails project for Deployment.
- Part 3:Introduction to the Google App Engine Image Service and the implementation of the Grails controller wrapper.
-LINKS-
- Link to the application: http://tomaslin.appspot.com/transformation/ ( right-click to view flex source )
- ObjectHandles: http://code.google.com/p/flex-object-handles/
- SpringSource Quickcast: http://blog.springsource.com/2009/05/14/grails-111-released-with-google-appengine-support/
- Source for Tranformation Service:http://tomaslin.googlepages.com/TransformationController.groovy
Please send any feedback or comments to tomaslin@gmail.com
5 Reasons for Flex Developers to consider a Grails / Google App Engine Backend
Today, Grails 1.1.1. was released with support for deploying applications on the Google App Engine. Here are five reasons why I think Flex Developers will fall in love with a Grails / GAE backend. Read the rest of this entry »
Flex on Grails: An one line Groovy proxy for cross domain communication for Flex
When trying to access external websites like the Flickr API or Google domains with Flex, we often run into the dreaded #2148 Security Exception error. . In this post, I show you how easy it is to solve this using Groovy and Grails ( it’s one line ). Read the rest of this entry »
Google Sets Haiku Generator
Here is a small App I built for the Google App Engine in Flex – It generates Haikus based on Google Sets suggestions:
I can haz cheesburgers now
emotional smile impact mirrors mirror’s can’t flatline
shine negative breathe lowlife dreams
Who says computers can’t poetry?
Grails Scaffolding CRUD Templates for Google App Engine / Java
Update : This code has been merged into the Grails 1.1.1. release of the App Engine Plugin, please see the Spring Source Blog for a screencast and how to use this.
I spent a few hours trying to understand how JDO works on the app engine yesterday. I had some experience tinkering with the Grails templating system, and thought it would be a neat experiment to port the Templates into JDO / Persistence Manager. Here is a full working CRUD template for Grails based on JDO. The intent here is to rewrite the controllers to use JDO while retaining complete compatibility of the views. Read the rest of this entry »
