I mentioned already how to set up Eclipse to get code completion for the Google App Engine development environment. To run the application from inside Eclipse has some advantages, too: All errors are logged to the console and you can directly jump to the error location in the code.
The run configuration needs to use the following main module:
/Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine/dev_appserver.py
In addition to this article, on Mac OS X the setup should look like this:
As CloudMe will not just focus on Java development, but will also utilize GAE (Google App Engine), I had to modify my development environment to support Python. I decided to use Eclipse as I’m already familiar with it from the Java development (I tried NetBeans, which is also really good, and needs less memory, but being more familiar with Eclipse made the difference). For this project I did a clean install:
For GAE, some documentation is required (considering that I’m new to Python):