Me and my friends are planning on building a heavy database activity + heavy amount of dynamically created and stored html pages type of website in appengine. I was hoping to build the front end using gwt and the backend using java in appengine. Initially I was planning to build the backend using php and mysql but due to lack of documentation of connecting php with gwt, I decided not to proceed with that. Would a website like stackoverflow be a good idea to build on appengine? If not, then why? What are my alternatives if I absolutely want to use GWT for front-end?
Thanks.
I think you shouldn’t worry about GWT. GWT as a frontend tool won’t affect your performance.
The think that you should be careful about is your application design/architect.
Google app engine won’t do any magic. It won’t automatically make your application scalable. Your application should be designed in a way that can scale well (maybe follow a good stateless design).
That way having your website on google app engine might help you during load picks.