Apr 08 2009

Google app engine launches Java Support

Tag: java — vish @ 6:06 am

At Campfire’09 google launches Java support for App engine. (Source: Techcrunch)

With App Engine, you can build web applications using standard Java technologies and run them on Google’s scalable infrastructure. The Java environment provides a Java 6 JVM, a Java Servlets interface, and support for standard interfaces to the App Engine scalable datastore and services, such as JDO, JPA, JavaMail, and JCache. Standards support makes developing your application easy and familiar, and also makes porting your application to and from your own servlet environment straightforward.

The Google Plugin for Eclipse adds new project wizards and debug configurations to your Eclipse IDE for App Engine projects. App Engine for Java makes it especially easy to develop and deploy world-class web applications using Google Web Toolkit (GWT). The Eclipse plugin comes bundled with the App Engine and GWT SDKs.

Checkout developers guide here.

You can download SDK from here.

Tags: google, gwt, java

Jan 31 2009

Google Glitch : This site may harm your computer.

Tag: hacking — vish @ 2:59 pm
Seems like some issue with google. On searching anything I get all search results with “This site may harm your computer.” link.

The page points you to this website :- StopBadware [dot] org

Here are screenshots :

http://gyani.info/gblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/google-glitch1.gif

http://gyani.info/gblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/google-glitch2.gif

No idea whats happening, but seems like for now i’ll have to use yahoo search :) .
Update :- Issue fixed now, Yahoo sure would have seen some hike in traffic for those 5-10mins :) .

More Updates :- On Google blog – what caused this error, and how it got fixed.

Tags: google, google search, hacking

Feb 18 2008

OpenSocial

Tag: widget/plugins — vish @ 1:31 pm

OpenSocial basically consist of a set of 3 APIs, which a site using it has to provide. Developers can use it to access

  • User Information
  • Friends Information
  • Activities on the website.

Those websites which are using OpenSocial would agree to accept the API calls and return appropriate data. OpenSocial uses normal javascript and html, unlike Facebook which has its own markup language (fbml). For the application developers, benefit of the Google approach is that they can use much of their existing front end code and it would be easy for them to just modify the code a bit and get it working with OpenSocial.

You can have a look at it over here :-

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

http://orkut-open-social.blogspot.com/

I just came to know about the youtube APIs google is providing. Its really cool and i’ll try to explore it more to get preview videos for MediaMelon :)

Tags: applications, facebook, fbml, google, OpenSocial, widgets