Java or Python, GAE looks like an amazingly easy platform for scalable web application development:
I wonder if this will make app engine the better free platform for facebook application development. Currently the best free hosting option for general facebook apps is Joyent, which only has the first year free. As for using GAE for facebook hosting, Python facebook libraries still seem to be in early development stages, which could be the reason we haven’t seen any significant facebook apps on GAE. The Java library is also unofficial. But it used to be official and is now maintained as an open source project, so I think it should be reasonably complete. So would the Facebook + Java + GAE combination yield some good facebook apps (assuming there is such a thing as a good facebook app)?
Having said all that, GAE Java is still in the “early access” stage and may still have some glitches. Google is giving away java access to the first 10000 who request it, probably as a soft launch. I managed to sneak one for myself - Don’t know whether I’ll do anything with it though ;-).
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