[edwinnathaniel]

#2 it's not that puzzling. Plain and simple most of us want RDBMS not NoSQL.

#2a they _just_ offer this (private/invite beta since last year). And no, I want PostgreSQL ;)

#3 In the past, JAXB doesn't work well, ditto with some of the reflection stuff.

List of unsupported stuff: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/WillItPlayInJa...

No JMX, JMS, JAX-WS (server), iText (PDF generation). Various libraries seem to require little "tweaks" here and there, no, I want to get it from Maven and be done with it.

The problem is keeping up to date with the latest spec fast enough.

I'm not looking for perfect though, I'm looking for standard JavaEE stuff.

[stickfigure]

You sound like someone who has arrived at a steakhouse and is upset because they don't have Big Macs on the menu. Okay... you have very specific desires and GAE isn't that. That isn't necessarily a problem with GAE.

[edwinnathaniel]

Can't argue with your assessment but the top parent of our thread talks about Azure and Heroku where both platform support fully whatever their bread-and-butter (Azure with .NET and Heroku with Rails), meanwhile GAE does not.