Two good books on AppEngine development
The publisher PACKT sent me a review copy of Google App Engine Java and GWT Application Development by my friend (via email correspondence) Daniel Guermeur and co-author Amy Unruh (thanks!) and I bought Code in the Cloud Programming Google AppEngine by Mark C. Chu-Carroll. Both are very good books and complement each other. Mark's book gives an interesting insite into AppEngine from someone who works at Google. He covers both Python and Java development. I relied on the Python sections of the book when I wrote a Python based AppEngine application last December. I am not much of a Python programmer but his book got me going quickly and I had few problems. He uses Google's Django support for AppEngine for the Python examples and Google Widget Toolkit (GWT) for the Java examples. Daniel's and Amy's book is a hands-on guide to using the Eclipse IDE and GWT to develop AppEngine applications in Java. They use JDO for the book examples which is probably best for the ge