Clojure Library for Google App Engine

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I'd like to take the opportunity to plug my own appengine-magic library: http://github.com/gcv/appengine-magic

It abstracts away almost all the boilerplate App Engine for Java requires, and makes Lispy, interactive, REPL-based development trivial to set up for App Engine. I have not yet finished making Clojure wrappers for all of App Engine's services, but datastore, memcache, and user authentication are already available.

I'll be giving a talk about it at the NYC Clojure Users Group meeting this coming Wednesday (October 20th).

> It is heavily refactored, so don't expect > any backwards compatibility with the original library.

Thereby defying the purpose of refactoring code.

It being a library, refactoring often means that the interfaces are now different. Refactoring should mean your functionality doesn't change, but having interfaces change is normal (and expected). Given that the author isn't modifying the code calling theirs, stuff will inevitably break. You can presumably make an adapter to make it compatible, though in this case I doubt all that's been modified is refactoring.

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