Google App Engine Java, Groovy and Gaelyk

Google App Engine,
Groovy Baby!
by Patrick Chanezon and Guillaume Laforge
from Google and SpringSource

Learn about GAE/J and
how Groovy it can be!

Discover the Google App Engine for Java cloud
solution, and how Groovy and Gaelyk can make
you more productive and bring you lots of fun
coding your app in the cloud!
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Patrick Chanezon
Google Developer Advocate
@chanezon
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Guillaume Laforge
• Groovy Project Manager
• JSR-241 Spec Lead
• Head of Groovy Development
at SpringSource
• Initiator of the Grails framework
• Co-author of Groovy in Action
• Speaker: JavaOne, QCon, JavaZone, Sun TechDays,
Devoxx, The Spring Experience, SpringOne, JAX,
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Dynamic Language World, IJTC, and more...

Agenda

• What does it take to host a Java Web application?
• Introducing Google App Engine for Java
• App Engine Review for Java
– A Complete Java development stack
• Demos
• Limitations, Issues
• Roadmap
• Scala, Clojure, JRuby
• Groovy
• Gaelyk
• Questions

3

What does it take (for a Java developer) to
host a Web application?

4

Doing it yourself in Java is still complex!

5

Hosting with Java still means hidden costs

• Idle capacity
• Software patches & upgrades
• License fees
• IT staff server wrangling
• Traffic & utilization forecasting
• Upgrades

6

Google App Engine – now with Java!

And it’s still…
• Easy to build
• Easy to maintain
• Easy to scale

7

All the same services for Java App Engine as
with Python

8

18+ months in review

Apr 2008 Python launch
May 2008 Memcache, Images API
Jul 2008 Logs export
Aug 2008 Batch write/delete
Oct 2008 HTTPS support
Dec 2008 Status dashboard, quota details
Feb 2009 Billing, larger files
Apr 2009 Java launch, DB import, cron support,
SDC

May 2009 Key-only queries
Jun 2009 Task queues
Aug 2009 Kindless queries
Sep 2009 XMPP
Oct 2009 Incoming Email
9

Same Distributed web hosting platform

10


• Parallel processing
• Scales automatically
• Available globally
• Configuration free
• Built-in DoS protections

11


SCALABILITY
for Java as well
12

Same Specialized services

13

Same App Engine Dashboard

14

Same initial free use policy as Python

• ~5M pageviews/month
• 6.5 CPU hrs/day
• 1 GB storage
• 650K URL Fetch calls
• 2,000 recipients emailed
• 1 GB/day bandwidth
• N tasks

15

App Engine and Java Standards

16

Based on Java Standards

17

Based on Java Standards

18

Extended Language support through JVM

• Java
• Scala
• JRuby (Ruby)
• Groovy
• Quercus (PHP)
• Rhino (JavaScript)
• Jython (Python) Duke, the Java mascot
Copyright © Sun Microsystems Inc., all rights reserved.

19

Development Tools for Java App Engine

20

Google’s Complete Java Development Stack

+

21

Google Plugin for Eclipse

22

Google Plugin for Eclipse

23

NeatBeans Plugin for Java App Engine

http://kenai.com/projects/nbappengine/

24

Demo

• Lolcat Wave Robot
– From the GWT client
to a Google Wave Bot!

27

Demo

• Demonstrating “Plane Crazy”
• Uses DataStore for Airplane, Activities, People data
• Uses email service for correspondence
• Uses XMPP for simple chatbot access

Live Demo: http://plane-crazy.appspot.com
Source: http://code.google.com/p/plane-crazy-demo/
28

Limitations, Issues

• No naked domains
• No SSL for domains
• First request for scripted languages is slow
• No MapReduce
• NoSQL
• No Sockets
• No Long running processes
• No Threads
• no javax.image APIs
• No Jax-WS
• Limit # of File on Apps

29

Roadmap

• Storing/serving large files
• Mapping operations across data sets
• Datastore cursors
• Notification alerts for application exceptions
• Datastore dump and restore facility

30

Tips

• Nick Johnson’s deferred lib article
– http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/deferred.html
– Python but applies to Java
– catch DeadlineExceededError and spawn a new task

31

Scala

• Modern language on top of VM (Java & .NET)
– Statically typed
– Traits -> Mixin style composition
– More functional style, but not bigot about it: closures
– Concurrency: Actors
– Type inference: less verbose than Java
– Type System
• Programming Scala, Wample & Payne, O’Reilly
• People to follow: Jonas Boner, @debasishg, Dave Pollack,
Alex Payne

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Scala/Lift

• Scala’s Web Framework
– Seaside's highly granular sessions and security
– Rails fast flash-to-bang
– Django's "more than just CRUD is included"
– Wicket's designer-friendly templating style (see Lift View First)
• Lift in Appengine
– Not all works: no Threads -> No Actors
• David Pollack & al, Lift Getting started
– http://liftweb.net/docs/getting_started/mod_master.html#x1-50001.3
• ymnk’s Books example
– git://gist.github.com/98561.git

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Scala/Lift

Author.scala
package net.liftweb.example.model

import javax.persistence._
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Key

@Entity
class Author {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(){val strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY}
var id : Key = _

@Column{val nullable = false}
var name : String = ""

@OneToMany{val mappedBy = "author", val targetEntity=classOf[Book]}
var books : java.util.List[Book] = _
}

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JRuby

• Ola Bini’s work on JRuby so that it works on appengine
– Many presos and blogs about rails on GAE (IO talk)
– Bumble / Datastore, BeeU / User service
• Ryan Brown appengine-apis gem
– http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/
– Rack::AppEngine task
– See their Railsconf talk
• Rails works
• Sinatra framework
– sudo gem install sinatra
• Sam Ruby Wave Robot in JRuby/Sinatra
– http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/06/07/Google-Wave-Robot-w-
Sinatra-JRuby-AppEngine
– Wave client lib
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JRuby

• Don’t forget to replace net/http by the Google version
– Based on UrlFetch instead of Sockets
• Curt Thompson of Best Buy’s Giftag.com
– http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/02/best-buys-giftag-
on-app-engine.html
– Real world use case

36

Guestbook in JRuby

guestbook.rb
require 'sinatra'
require 'dm-core'

# Configure DataMapper to use the App Engine datastore
DataMapper.setup(:default, "appengine://auto")

# Create your model class
class Shout
include DataMapper::Resource

property :id, Serial
property :message, Text
end

# Make sure our template can use <%=h
helpers do
include Rack::Utils
alias_method :h, :escape_html
end

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Guestbook in JRuby

get '/' do
# Just list all the shouts
@shouts = Shout.all
erb :index
end

post '/' do
# Create a new shout and redirect back to the list.
shout = Shout.create(:message => params[:message])
redirect '/'
end

views/index.erb
<% @shouts.each do |shout| %>
<p>Someone wrote, <q><%=h shout.message %></q></p>
<% end %>

<form method=post>
<textarea name="message"></textarea>
<input type=submit value=Shout>
</form>
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Clojure

• Lisp dialect on top of Java VM
• Programming Clojure, Halloway, PragProg book
• John Hume appengine-clj lib
– git://github.com/duelinmarkers/appengine-clj.git
– users, datastore, test-utils

(require '[appengine-clj.datastore :as ds])
(ds/create {:kind "Person" :name "Jimmmy" :age 25})
=> {:kind "Person" :key #<Key Person(1138)> :name "Jimmmy" :age 25}

• Compojure web framework (inspired by Sinatra)
• git://github.com/weavejester/compojure.git
• http://elhumidor.blogspot.com/2009/04/clojure-on-google-
appengine.html
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Guestbook in Clojure/Compojure

(ns guestbook.servlet
... you no longer need to import UserServiceFactory ...
(:require
[appengine-clj.users :as users]))

(defroutes guestbook-app
(GET "/"
(let [user-info (request :appengine-clj/user-info)
user (user-info :user)]
(html
[:h1 "Hello, " (if user (.getNickname user) "World") "!"]
[:p (link-to (.createLoginURL (user-info :user-service) "/")
"sign in")]
[:p (link-to (.createLogoutURL (user-info :user-service) "/")
"sign out")]))))

(defservice (users/wrap-with-user-info guestbook-app))

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Tools: Emacs

• clojure-mode, slime, swank
• Setup tools:
– http://riddell.us/tutorial/slime_swank/slime_swank.html
• Interactive Programming with Clojure, Compojure, Google
App Engine and Emacs
– http://www.hackers-with-attitude.com/2009/08/intertactive-
programming-with-clojure.html
– Edit, C-c C-c, shift-reload
• Jeff Foster Wave Robot in Clojure
– http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2009/07/google-wave-and-clojure.html

41

Wave Robot in Clojure

Jeff Foster http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2009/07/google-wave-and-clojure.html

(ns uk.co.fatvat.wave.parrot
  (:import [com.google.wave.api RobotMessageBundle EventType])
  (:gen-class :extends com.google.wave.api.AbstractRobotServlet))

(defn- add-blip
  [wavelet message]
  (.append (.getDocument (.appendBlip wavelet)) message))

(defn -processEvents
  [_ bundle]
  (let [wavelet (.getWavelet bundle)]
    (when (.wasSelfAdded bundle)
      (add-blip wavelet "Greetings. I'm alive!"))
    (let [participant-changed-events (filter
                                       (fn [e] (= (.getType e)
(EventType/WAVELET_PARTICIPANTS_CHANGED)))
                                       (.getEvents bundle))]
      (doseq [event participant-changed-events]
        (add-blip wavelet "Hey! It's me!")))))

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http://gaelyk.appspot.com

F

Gaelyk
Gaelyk is a lightweight Groovy toolkit on top of the
Google App Engine Java SDK

Gaelyk builds on Groovy’s servlet support
Groovlets: Groovy scripts instead of raw servlets!
Groovy templates: JSP-like template engine
Both allow for a clean separation of views and logic

Gaelyk provides several enhancements around the GAE Java
SDK to make life easier, thanks to Groovy’s dynamic nature
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Why Groovy?
Groovy is a dynamic language for the JVM
very ﬂexible, malleable, expressive and concise syntax
easy to learn for Java developers
deriving from the Java 5 grammar

provides powerful APIs to simplify the life of developers
possibility to dynamically enrich existing APIs

support for Groovlets and its own template engine

We worked with the Google App Engine Java team before
the ofﬁcial launch of the platform, to ensure Groovy would
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run well on this new environment

MVC: Groovlets and templates

Groovlets Templates
(controllers) (views)

Entities
(domain)
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First steps...

•Go to http://gaelyk.appspot.com
•Download the template project
•Put your first Groovlet in /WEB-INF/groovy
•And your templates at the root
•And you’re ready to go!
•Launch dev_appserver.sh
•Go to http://localhost:8080/

The web.xml
">
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" version="2.5
<servlet>
<servlet-name>GroovletServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>groovyx.gaelyk.GaelykServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>TemplateServlet</servlet-name>
-class>
<servlet-class>groovyx.gaelyk.GaelykTemplateServlet</servlet
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>GroovletServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.groovy</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>TemplateServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.gtpl</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
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<welcome-file>index.gtpl</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

A groovlet
Instead of writing full-blown servlets, just write
Groovy scripts (aka Groovlets)
def numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4]
def now = new Date()

html.html {
body {
numbers.each { number -> p number }
p now
}
}
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A template
<html>
<body>
<p><%
def message = "Hello World!"
print message %>
</p>
<p><%= message %></p>
<p>${message}</p>
<ul>
<% 3.times { %>
<li>${message}</li>
<% } %>
</ul>
</body>
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</html>

Shortcuts
Variables available Google services
request / response datastore
context / applicaiton memcache
session urlFetch
params mail
header userService
out / sout / html user
Methods available defaultQueue
include / forward queues
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print / println xmpp

Sending emails with Gaelyk

mail.send to: 'foobar@gmail.com',
from: 'other@gmail.com',
subject: 'Hello World',
htmlBody: '<bold>Hello</bold>'
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...compared to Java
Properties props = new Properties();
ops, null);
Ses sion session = Session.getDefaultInstance(pr

String msgBody = "...";

try {
Message msg = new MimeMessage(session);
m", "Admin"));
msg.se tFrom(new InternetAddress("admin@example.co
TO,
msg.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType. "Mr. User"));
new InternetAddress("user@example.com",
n activated");
msg .setSubject("Your Example.com account has bee
msg.setText(msgBody);
Transport.send(msg);
} catch (AddressException e) {}
} catch (MessagingException e) {}
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Accessing the datastore
Direct interaction with the low-level datastore API
ty
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.Enti

Entity entity = new Entity("person")

map
// subscript notation, like when accessing a
entity['name'] = "Guillaume Laforge"

// normal property access notation
entity.age = 32

entity.save()
entity.delete()

datastore.withTransaction {
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// do stuff with your entities
// within the transaction
}

Querying to be improved...
import com.google.appengine.api.datastore.*
der.*
import static com.google.appengine.api.datastore.FetchOptions.Buil

// query the scripts stored in the datastore
def query = new Query("savedscript")

// sort results by descending order of the creation date
query.addSort("dateCreated", Query.SortDirection.DESCENDING)

author
// filters the entities so as to return only scripts by a certain
r)
query.addFilter("author", Query.FilterOperator.EQUAL, params.autho

PreparedQuery preparedQuery = datastore.prepare(query)

// return only the first 10 results
def entities = preparedQuery.asList( withLimit(10) )
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...into something groovier?

def entities = datastore.createQuery {
select from: savedscript
sort DESC, on: dateCreated
where author == params.author
limit 10
} as List
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...into something groovier?

def entities = datastore.createQuery {
select from: savedscript
sort DESC, on: dateCreated
where author == params.author
te d!
limit 10 en
} as List l
p em
t Im
t Ye
N o
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Task queue API
// access a configured queue using the subscript notation
queues['dailyEmailQueue']

// or using the property access notation
queues.dailyEmailQueue

// you can also access the default queue with:
queues.default
defaultQueue

// add a task to the queue
queue << [
countdownMillis: 1000, url: "/task/dailyEmail",
taskName: "Send daily email newsletter",
method: 'PUT', params: [date: '20090914'],
payload: content
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]

Jabber / XMPP support (1/3)
Sending instant messages

String recipient = "someone@gmail.com"

// check if the user is online
if (xmpp.getPresence(recipient).isAvailable()) {
// send the message
def status = xmpp.send(to: recipient,
body: "Hello, how are you?")

// checks the message was successfully
// delivered to all the recipients
assert status.isSuccessful()
}
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Sending instant messages with an XML payload
String recipient = "service@gmail.com"

// check if the service is online
// send the message
def status = xmpp.send(to: recipient, xml: {
customers {
customer(id: 1) {
name 'Google'
}
}
})

// checks the message was successfully delivered to the service
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}

Sending instant messages with an XML payload
String recipient = "service@gmail.com"

// check if the service is online
// send the message
def status = xmpp.send(to: recipient, xml: {
customers {
customer(id: 1) { <customers>
name 'Google' <customer id=’1’>
} <name>Google</name>
} </customer>
}) </customers>

// checks the message was successfully delivered to the service
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}

Receving incoming instant messages
Conﬁgure the XmppServlet in web.xml
Add the inbound message service in appengine-web.xml
// get the body of the message
message.body
// get the sender Jabber ID
message.from
// get the list of recipients Jabber IDs
message.recipients

// if the message is an XML document instead of a raw string
message
if (message.isXml()) {
// get the raw XML
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message.stanza
// get a document parsed with XmlSlurper
message.xml
}

Memcache service
Map notation access to the cache

}
class Country implements Serialzable { String name

def countryFr = new Country(name: 'France')

in the cache
// use the subscript notation to put a country object
// (you can also use non-string keys)
memcache['FR'] = countryFr

// check that a key is present in the cache
if ('FR' in memcache) {
the cache using a key
// use the subscript notation to get an entry from
def countryFromCache = memcache['FR']
}
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What’s coming next?
A new Gaelyk 0.3 release a couple days ago
Sugar for the Memcache service
The incoming email support in GAE SDK 1.2.6
Add more sugar around...
The Datastore query system
SQL-like DSL, dynamic ﬁnders...

DSL for the URL Fetch service for accessing REST resources
More generally...
Anything that’ll come up in upcoming GAE SDK versions
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DEMO

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The use case
Collaboratively consolidated Twitter search
Send a search query to
groovydemos@appspot.com
The bot will
receive your message
store the query in the datastore
enqueue a task for processing the search
The queue handler will
parse the Twitter search feed for the query
put the results into memcache
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Browse http://groovydemos.appspot.com

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Summary
Easy access to a cloud solution
Deploying Java apps, as easily as you would with PHP

Familiar to Java folks
Your good old Servlet centric webapps style

Pretty cheap
You need a high-trafﬁced website to reach the quotas

Gaelyk provides a simpliﬁed approach to creating Servlet
centric webapps in a productive manner
Leveraging Groovy’s servlet / template support and dynamic capabilities
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Thanks for your attention!

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References:
• http://code.google.com/appengine/
• http://gaelyk.appspot.com/
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• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• http://grails.org/

Images used in this presentation
Clouds
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/627059
Duke ok GAE
http://code.google.com/images/duke-on-gae.jpg
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/ae_gwt_java.png
Python logo : http://python.org/images/python-logo.gif
Gaelyc cross with clouds : http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/37889
Speed limit : http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/18492
Warehouse : http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/85628
Snow foot steps : http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinvanmourik/2875929243/
Sugar : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ayelie/441101223/sizes/l/
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