Pictarine is a photo management web application, launched in 2010, that allows people to easily manage and share all of their photos from Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Twitter and other sites. Pictarine developers Guillaume Martin and Maxime Rafalimanana have contributed the following post discussing their experiences using Google App Engine and Google Web Toolkit.Building a mashup in the cloud with Google App Engine Building a fresh photo experience with Google Web Toolkit Building an universal uploader Mashable and Lifehacker were published. So we recommend it to every lean startup out there who loves developing in Java, Python or Go.Posted by The App Engine Team
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This is a great App Guys, nice work. I'd be very interest to know how you support it financially, especially after your traffic spiked. I also run a free app engine based service and I'm having trouble finding ways to make money supporting it as it gains popularity. - Ben www.nimbits.com
ReplyDeleteNice app. Do you still need the Java applet in modern web browsers?
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ReplyDelete@JoeG unfortunately yes... there is still no native way to browse your files directly in the browser, we are trying to blur the line between the cloud and your computer with this technology
Do you have any more info on the Applet - GWT RPC communication?
ReplyDeleteI would have thought that JSNI would have been sufficient for GWT to Applet communication or is the Applet communicating with the server over GWT RPC via a GWT wrapper.
Apologies for the deep tech questions but I'm investigating GWT limitations myself at the moment and this cold be useful.
Great post! Thanks for sharing your experience.
ReplyDeleteIt strengthens my choice of using both GAE and GWT together.
Awesome app that I use myself!
ReplyDeleteI'm really baffled by the way you used a Java Applet clientside and made it communicate with your GWT app. How genius!
Modern browsers allow file upload through drag and drop which i guess could be a fallback if you want to get rid of the clientside Java. But the users wouldn't get access to the file system. I wonder what gives the best user experience: drag&drop or filesystem...
Anyways, keep up the awesome work!