Google Launches "Mobile Backend as a Service"

Google launches "Mobile Backend as a Service" starter kit. It's called "Mobile Backend Starter" and runs on top of Google App Engine.

It's mainly a client-to-client networking and communications stack. It supports storage of state data on the server side and also Google Authentication. However, no customized server logic or extensions are supported.

References:

• http://gigaom.com/2013/06/03/google-takes-on-parse-with-new-service-for-mobile-app-backends/
• http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.sg/2013/06/get-your-mobile-application-in-the-cloud-with-mobile-backend-starter.html

Wicket on Google App Engine

According to this blog post, it can be done pretty easily.

Of course the persistence limitation (i.e. no filesystem, have to use Google's DB) still stand.