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Google App Engine Hello World
This is the first blog post on here, so I might as well say that this one has nothing to do with ActionScript, and honestly a lot of the posts probably won't.
I decided to check out how difficult it was to get an application running on Google App Engine, and I've found it to be surpisingly easy to do. Google has done an awesome job of integrating with the developer tools out there to make this almost as painless a process as possible. Here are some steps to getting setup:
- Check out the Google App Engine site for information: http://code.google.com/appengine/
- Go to the Download page to find the downloads you're going to need: http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html
- If you haven't already, download the latest Eclipse version. At the time of this writing it was Helios. You can find a list of the available Eclipse downloads here: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ I chose the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers
- Download and unzip the Eclipse installation. Because I have multiple Eclipse installed on my system, I placed it here: C:\apps\eclipse_helios
- Start up Eclipse and follow the instructions for installing the Google App Engine plugin found here http://code.google.com/eclipse/docs/install-eclipse-3.6.html
- After Eclipse has installed the plugin and restarted, follow the getting started with Java guide found here to get your Hello World up and running http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/creating.html
My Hello World is located here: http://alevicki.appspot.com/googleappenginealevicki
Extremely simple, but the key takeaway here was that Google has made this extremely easy to do. You can even upload your application from Eclipse to your App Engine account. I'll be looking at the other getting started topics in future posts.
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