diff -r fd8751c3f3ee -r a721966779be doc/book/en/B2051-intro.en.txt --- a/doc/book/en/B2051-intro.en.txt Tue Apr 28 11:22:43 2009 +0200 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ -.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- - -Introduction -============ - -What is `Google AppEngine` ? ------------------------------- - -`Google AppEngine`_ is provided with a partial port of the `Django` -framework, but Google stated at Google IO 2008 that it would not -support a specific Python web framework and that all -community-supported frameworks would be more than welcome [1]_. - -Therefore `Logilab`_ ported `CubicWeb` to run on top of `Google AppEngine`'s -datastore. - -.. _`Google AppEngine`: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html -.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/ -.. [1] for more on this matter, read our blog at http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/5216 - - -Essentials ----------- - -To build a web application for `Google App Engine`'s datastore, you -need to have a good understanding of the main concepts of our -`CubicWeb` framework. - -The main concepts are: - - - *schema* - - - *query language* - - - *result set* - - - *views* - - - *generated user interface* - - - *cube* - -You can find detailled explanation of those concepts in :ref:`TermsVocabulary`. -