Very impressed with GAE so far.  It was so easy to set up and begin building with.  So my next exploring choices were

JPA  – (The GAE Tutorial used JDO.  From what I understand, they are very similar) GWT JSF

I am happy with JDO – No need to change that for now.  Although I [...]

Using Eclipse with the GAE plugin it is pretty straight forward

Register your app id (https://appengine.google.com)
Using the free appspot option your url would be http://application-id.appspot.com/. Update your appengine-web.xml file to reflect your id
Change the value of application element to be your registered application ID. Click the deploy button on the [...]

By default, App Engine makes all files in the WAR available as static files except JSPs and files in WEB-INF/

You can configure which files App Engine treats as static files using the appengine-web.xml file.

These notes are for my purposes.  Here is the link to Google’s tutorial for GAE JDO

Choices for persisting to the datastore

JDO JPA

The tutorial goes through JDO – I will later try to do the same functionality but with JPA.

Set up DataNucleus Access Platform
DataNucleus is a JDO-compliant adapter [...]

Here is the link to the JSP section of the tutorial
It’s better practice to use a template for outputting HTML rather than using the servlet code to do that. JSP’s are part of the servlet standard.
The tutorial was pretty straight forward. Ripped out the HTML from the servlet and created [...]

So this part of the tutorial was on how to integrate the Google service that allows you to authenticate a user based upon their existing google credentials.  [Tutorial on Using the Users Service]

The UserService provides facilities to check whether a user has authenticated using their Google Account, retrieve their email address, and check [...]

So this note is really a note to myself (aren’t they all) .  I just wanted to get a handle on what is created for you when you select to create a new web application project.

So the directory is created with the Java Servlet  Standard.   The files to take note of are …

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