On Jan 9, 10:54 am, Stefan Kamphausen <ska2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Given that decision I'd like to understand the general development process. > Does one always compile to a class (ns ...gen-class ..extends ..Servlet) and > will the appengine development server pick up the changes, or will I just > recompile a function (using a setup with Emacs and SLIME), what about the > REPL mode of appengine-magic together with the datastore and other features.
I'm the author of appengine-magic, so my opinion is necessarily biased in its favor. :) appengine-magic is designed to be a self-contained, easy way to use Google App Engine with Ring, or any Ring-compliant framework. appengine-magic includes its own datastore abstraction layer, with a (reasonably) high-level Clojure syntax and API. Most other App Engine services are also included, with idiomatic Clojure wrappers. I optimized the development process for interactive use. You write code with Emacs and SLIME, recompile functions interactively, and your local development web server will show all changes. No restarts and no nasty "watch this directory for changed class files" kludges are needed. In version 0.4.0 (https://github.com/gcv/appengine-magic/tree/ v0.4.0, use "0.4.0-SNAPSHOT" as a dependency), the REPL mode works fine with the datastore and other App Engine SDK features: you can run datastore queries right from the REPL. I will probably finalize the 0.4.0 release soon, since it's a huge improvement over 0.3.x. For deployment, you will have to compile .class files, but appengine- magic provides Leiningen tasks to simplify the process. Please refer to the documentation for more information, but you basically just run "lein appengine-prepare" and then either run the SDK's deployment script or "lein appengine-update". The README file has full instructions for getting started. To get started, just install the SDK and make a Leiningen project with the correct dependencies. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
