Deploying to App Engine

This is sooo easy (if you use Eclipse);

- Get Eclipse
- Install the App Engine Plug-in
- Create your app container on App Engnie
- Create an App Engine project in Eclipse
- Import your source into the project
- edit Web.xml and Appengine-Web.xml
- edit logging.properties
- Insert the App Name into the project
- Click the button - your app is deployed and running

Need to version your apps, easy, increment the version number & click ...

Need to roll-back on app-engine, easy ...

Need to apply access controls, easy ...

Need to deliver your app via Google Apps, easy ...

Need a secure connection to your on-premise data, easy ...

There is for sure a lesson here for EC2 (create instance -> create AMI -> ... not straight forwards - and I still have servers to administer, even if they are Virtual) ... Haven't looked at Azure yet (doing that in a couple of weeks time so stay tuned) but MS will have to go some to give a slicker apps experience than this ...