22 Jul
2009
22 Jul
'09
8:43 p.m.
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html
Java is supported via Java 6 JVM and standard libs:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/
My biggest question w/r/t Xwiki is AppEngine's database support:
The Datastore
App Engine provides a powerful distributed data storage service that
features a query engine and transactions. Just as the distributed web server
grows with your traffic, the distributed datastore grows with your data.
The App Engine datastore is not like a traditional relational database.
Data objects, or "entities," have a kind and a set of properties. Queries
can retrieve entities of a given kind filtered and sorted by the values of
the properties. Property values can be of any of the supported property
value
types<http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/typesandpro…
.
Datastore entities are "schemaless." The structure of data entities is
provided by and enforced by your application code. The Java JDO/JPA
interfaces and the Python datastore interface include features for applying
and enforcing structure within your app. Your app can also access the
datastore directly to apply as much or as little structure as it needs.
The datastore is strongly
consistent<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_model>and uses optimistic
concurrency control<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimistic_concurrency_control>ol>.
An update of a entity occurs in a transaction that is retried a fixed number
of times if other processes are trying to update the same entity
simultaneously. Your application can execute multiple datastore operations
in a single transaction which either all succeed or all fail, ensuring the
integrity of your data.
The datastore implements transactions across its distributed network using
"entity groups." A transaction manipulates entities within a single group.
Entities of the same group are stored together for efficient execution of
transactions. Your application can assign entities to groups when the
entities are created.
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/usingdatastore.ht…
App Engine includes support for two different API
standards for the
datastore: Java Data Objects <http://java.sun.com/jdo/index.jsp> (JDO) and
Java Persistence
API<http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/jpa/>(JPA);(JPA). These
interfaces are provided by DataNucleus
Access Platform <http://www.datanucleus.org/>, an open source
implementation of several Java persistence standards, with an adapter for
the App Engine datastore.
..............
Question:
What would it take to make Xwiki work on Google App-engine? Is the
"datastore" google provides compatible with xwiki's database needs?
What other Java-hosting services "out there" support Xwiki? Database and
java "hosting" issues for Xwiki can be problematic, even though it makes
more sense, to public-host using a language like Java.
I think for my own situation, I would end up "hosting" Xwiki myself, as a
$500.00 box can run a few Xwiki-based sites just fine. However, for
people/customers wanting an Xwiki-based site that don't know about system
administration, JVM's, apache, etc, it would be nice if there was an easier
path to managed hosting in an "open market." This needn't limit
xwiki.com's
hosting market, as much as it would open-up xwiki for wider deployment and
use, and make it competitive in situations where Php or RoR might have
easier buy-in, such as in the USA....
Imagine if in the future, one of the installers Xwiki.org offered worked
directly with http://appengine.google.com/ so that people would
actually have their own live, public xwiki sites hosted for them. There's
plenty of sites that would be happy with this level of free
service ( http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html ):
Resource Free Default Quota Billing Enabled Quota Daily Limit Maximum
Rate Daily
Limit Maximum Rate Requests 1,300,000 requests 7,400 requests/minute
43,000,000
requests 30,000 requests/minute Outgoing Bandwidth
(billable<http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Billable_Quot…as>,
includes HTTPS) 1 gigabyte 56 megabytes/minute 1 gigabyte free; 1,046
gigabytes maximum 740 megabytes/minute Incoming Bandwidth
(billable<http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Billable_Quot…as>,
includes HTTPS) 1 gigabyte 56 megabytes/minute 1 gigabyte free; 1,046
gigabytes maximum 740 megabytes/minute CPU Time
(billable<http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Billable_Quot…
) 6.5 CPU-hours 15 CPU-minutes/minute 6.5 CPU-hours free; 1,729 CPU-hours
maximum 72 CPU-minutes/minuteNiels
http://nielsmayer.com
PS: although at 1 gigabyte outgoing bandwidth, and some of the sizable
javascript libraries these days... you probably want to use
http://webmuch.com/how-why-you-should-use-google-cdn/ alongside :-)
22 Jul
22 Jul
9:07 p.m.
New subject: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] can/could/will Xwiki work with "Google App Engine" Java&database?
Hi Niels,
I have a prototype of XWIki partially working with some changes on app
engine
http://xwiki1.appspot.com/bin/view/Main/
I've made all the servlet / jvm part work as well as the cache subsystem.
The main missing piece is a real storage with support for querying.
We have no plans at this point to continue the work. If somebody wants
to help I can give directions.
Ludovic
Niels Mayer a écrit :
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html
Java is supported via Java 6 JVM and standard libs:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/
My biggest question w/r/t Xwiki is AppEngine's database support:
--
Ludovic Dubost
Blog: http://blog.ludovic.org/
XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com
Skype: ldubost GTalk: ldubost
The Datastore
App Engine provides a powerful distributed data storage service that
features a query engine and transactions. Just as the distributed web server
grows with your traffic, the distributed datastore grows with your data.
The App Engine datastore is not like a traditional relational database.
Data objects, or "entities," have a kind and a set of properties. Queries
can retrieve entities of a given kind filtered and sorted by the values of
the properties. Property values can be of any of the supported property
value
types<http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/typesandpro…
.
Datastore entities are "schemaless." The structure of data entities is
provided by and enforced by your application code. The Java JDO/JPA
interfaces and the Python datastore interface include features for applying
and enforcing structure within your app. Your app can also access the
datastore directly to apply as much or as little structure as it needs.
The datastore is strongly
consistent<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_model>and uses optimistic
concurrency control<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimistic_concurrency_control>ol>.
An update of a entity occurs in a transaction that is retried a fixed number
of times if other processes are trying to update the same entity
simultaneously. Your application can execute multiple datastore operations
in a single transaction which either all succeed or all fail, ensuring the
integrity of your data.
The datastore implements transactions across its distributed network using
"entity groups." A transaction manipulates entities within a single group.
Entities of the same group are stored together for efficient execution of
transactions. Your application can assign entities to groups when the
entities are created.
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/usingdatastore.ht…
App Engine includes support for two different API
standards for the
datastore: Java Data Objects <http://java.sun.com/jdo/index.jsp> (JDO) and
Java Persistence
API<http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/jpa/>(JPA);(JPA). These
interfaces are provided by DataNucleus
Access Platform <http://www.datanucleus.org/>, an open source
implementation of several Java persistence standards, with an adapter for
the App Engine datastore.
..............
Question:
What would it take to make Xwiki work on Google App-engine? Is the
"datastore" google provides compatible with xwiki's database needs?
What other Java-hosting services "out there" support Xwiki? Database and
java "hosting" issues for Xwiki can be problematic, even though it makes
more sense, to public-host using a language like Java.
I think for my own situation, I would end up "hosting" Xwiki myself, as a
$500.00 box can run a few Xwiki-based sites just fine. However, for
people/customers wanting an Xwiki-based site that don't know about system
administration, JVM's, apache, etc, it would be nice if there was an easier
path to managed hosting in an "open market." This needn't limit
xwiki.com's
hosting market, as much as it would open-up xwiki for wider deployment and
use, and make it competitive in situations where Php or RoR might have
easier buy-in, such as in the USA....
Imagine if in the future, one of the installers Xwiki.org offered worked
directly with http://appengine.google.com/ so that people would
actually have their own live, public xwiki sites hosted for them. There's
plenty of sites that would be happy with this level of free
service ( http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html ):
Resource Free Default Quota Billing Enabled Quota Daily Limit Maximum
Rate Daily
Limit Maximum Rate Requests 1,300,000 requests 7,400 requests/minute
43,000,000
requests 30,000 requests/minute Outgoing Bandwidth
(billable<http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Billable_Quot…as>,
includes HTTPS) 1 gigabyte 56 megabytes/minute 1 gigabyte free; 1,046
gigabytes maximum 740 megabytes/minute Incoming Bandwidth
(billable<http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Billable_Quot…as>,
includes HTTPS) 1 gigabyte 56 megabytes/minute 1 gigabyte free; 1,046
gigabytes maximum 740 megabytes/minute CPU Time
(billable<http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Billable_Quot…
) 6.5 CPU-hours 15 CPU-minutes/minute 6.5 CPU-hours free; 1,729 CPU-hours
maximum 72 CPU-minutes/minuteNiels
http://nielsmayer.com
PS: although at 1 gigabyte outgoing bandwidth, and some of the sizable
javascript libraries these days... you probably want to use
http://webmuch.com/how-why-you-should-use-google-cdn/ alongside :-)
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28 Jul
28 Jul
8:48 a.m.
New subject: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] can/could/will Xwiki work with "Google App Engine" Java&database?
(On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ludovic Dubost <ludovic(a)xwiki.org> wrote:
I have a prototype of XWIki partially working with some changes on app
engine http://xwiki1.appspot.com/bin/view/Main/
I've made all the servlet / jvm part work as well as the cache subsystem.
The main missing piece is a real storage with support for querying.
Ludovic -- thanks for the reply. That looks quite promising. I guess the
"real storage" issue is caused by this:(
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/web/will-it-play-in-ap…
)
limitation:
<http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/web/will-it-play-in-app-engine?pli=1>
You cannot currently use Hibernate directly. The differences between the
App Engine datastore and SQL were too great to get the standard Hibernate up
and running under App Engine. App Engine does support JDO and JPA, so you
may be able to convert your Hibernate code to use one of these ORM
interfaces.
Will Xwiki support JDO/JPA in the future? Seems like it would be part of the
XWQL<http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/XWiki+Query+Language+Spe…effort,
correct?
http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-query/jpql-par…
Mentions
"JPA2[2] specification" but it's not clear that other layers wouldn't
use
other API's.
GAE is also looking less exciting now that I look into it more. In a different
thread<http://n2.nabble.com/adding-a-new-jsr-223-scripting-language-to-x…
wrote:
* It could be very useful to employ massive parallelism
via such Clojure*
* scripts, which could achieve a xwiki-based web portal performance akin to
*
* Yahoo's, Google's, etc. For example, the
following describes how Yahoo
works*
* -- and would be quite easy to implement this kind of
processing "for
free"*
* in Clojure with very little code:
http://research.yahoo.com/files/pnuts.pdf ...*
*
*
Wondering whether Google App Engine would be able to host such a massively
parallel application, I check
http://elhumidor.blogspot.com/2009/04/clojure-on-google-appengine.html which
says:
THE BIG CAVEAT
Two unusual aspects of the Google AppEngine environment create pretty major
constraints on your ability to write idiomatic
Clojure.
First, an AppEngine application runs in a security context that doesn't
permit spawning threads, so you won't be able to
use Agents, the
clojure.parallel library, or Futures.
Second, one of the most exciting features of AppEngine is that your
application will be deployed on Google's huge
infrastructure, dynamically
changing its footprint depending on demand. That means you'll potentially be
running on many JVMs at once. Unfortunately this is a strange fit for
Clojure's concurrency features, which are most useful when you have precise
control over what lives on what JVM (and simplest when everything runs on
one JVM). Since shared references (Vars, Refs, and Atoms) are shared only
within a single JVM, they are not suitable for many of their typical uses
when running on AppEngine. You should still use Clojure's atomic references
(and their associated means of modification) for any state that it makes
sense to keep global per-JVM, since there may be multiple threads serving
requests in one JVM. But remember JVMs will come and go during the lifetime
of your application, so anything truly global should go in the Datastore or
Memcache.
The first point means closure isn't that interesting on GAE. Because GAE is
"single threaded" -- how pointless.
Regarding the second point: why would one be using shared references in code
that one wanted purely functional for the purpose of making it decompose
into parallel code without needing to worry about any of the issues raised?
How could one be doing functional programming if side-effects are happening
to the shared references? And how could one expect that code to decompose
into parallel code w/o explicitly handling locking on shared references that
are being changed?
As followup to GAE limitations, see
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/web/will-it-play-in-ap…
which
points to
https://sites.google.com/a/wildstartech.com/adventures-in-java/Java-Platfor…
<!-- Disable use of threading for single-threaded
environments such as
the Google AppEngine. -->
...
If the com.sun.faces.enableThreading context parameter is not set to false (or
omitted completely from the web.xml configuration
file) an application
deployed on the Google AppEngine will display a number of different
errors<https://sites.google.com/a/wildstartech.com/adventures-in-java/Ja…
all
caused by the JSF reference implementation's attempts to construct threads.
Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
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