GAE datastore resources

While I’m a big fan of leveraging Google’s low-level API Entity class (as decorated by Gaelyk) for persisting data into GAE’s underlying datastore, there are some up-and-coming frameworks that are worth examining. Both frameworks note the challenges with JDO and like me, prefer to work with Entity types. Each framework has a good deal of documentation too. Without further ado, check out:

• Objectify-Appengine
• Twig

It appears that at the moment, Twig is a bit less verbose (with respect to coding) but each framework supports a wide range of hip features.

Don’t forget to check out Gaelyk (which is a super slick Groovy framework for GAE) and while you’re at it, read “Schemaless data modeling with Bigtable and Groovy’s Gaelyk” for a layman’s approach to data modeling with Entity objects.

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