app engine

The Google App Engine (GAE) is a wonderful playground for your apps, especially when you have no server at hand. It gives you everything you need for free, up to a certain limit. As I happened to be a Java developer it became really interesting when the GAE started supporting Java. You have to register for a GAE account and then apply for Java to be activated. There is a small waiting time but there still seem to be open slots.

As I'm working with Apache Wicket at the moment I thought it would be a nice idea to give you everything you need to get started with development with the GAE and Wicket as your frontend. So in the following lines we will set up a minimal Java / Wicket application and deploy it into the GAE.Read more