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Here a short tutorial on Google Cloud Endpoints (briefly presented in the previous post ( http://googlielmo.blogspot.it/2013/04/google-cloud-endpoints.html )). For this tutorial I am referring to Eclipse Indigo and the Google Eclipse Plugin with the App Engine SDK 1.7.6. A little knowledge of the Google Plugin and the Google App Engine is required to better understand this tutorial. Project creation Open Eclipse and then create a new Web Application Project through the Google Plugin button. Select a name and the default package for the project and uncheck the GWT usage: we don't need a front end. The project name chosen for this tutorial is endpointtutorial . Coding Suppose you have this simple entity: public class MyEntity { public String entityName; public String entityDescr; } and the business logic to access this kind of object: public class MyBusinessClass { public MyEntity getMyEntity() { MyEntity myEntity = new MyEntity(); myEntity.entityName = ...

Saturday March 23rd I attended an interactive Google Lab @ Codemotion 2013 in Rome held by Alfredo Morresi about the Google Cloud Endpoints. This is a new feature for Google App Engine (GAE). It consists of tools, libraries and capabilities that allow you to generate Endpoints and client libraries from an App Engine backend to simplify client access to that web app. Endpoints makes it easier to create a web backend for web clients and mobile clients such as Android or Apple's iOS. Mobile developers will spare a lot of time and work while developing shared backends for their apps and benefit from all the services and features provided by the GAE infrastructure. The figure below shows the basic Endpoints architecture: The backend is an App Engine application that performs business logic and other functions for Android and iOS clients, as well as JavaScript web clients. The functionality of the backend is made available to clients through Endpoints, which exposes an API that clien...