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hi,

I'm considering to use google web toolkit to develop my web application. It is not clear if the service is completely free for web storage under 500 mb.

Can I use google web toolkit to develop my own app, and use my own server for it ? Am I going to have some issues if I do this ?

Could you give me some feedback ? Thanks

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You can use GWT by itself and support it on your own server. I'm not too familiar with google app engine, but from the website, it says:

"Risk free trial period Not only is creating an App Engine application easy, it's free! You can create an account and publish an application that people can use right away at no charge, and with no obligation. An efficient application on a free account can use up to 1GB of storage and up to 5 million page views a month. When you are ready for more, you can enable billing, set a maximum daily budget, and allocate your budget for each resource according to your needs."

It sounds like it is free for as along as you stay below the above quotas.

Jesse
I agree with you, if you stay below the quotas it is completely free, but then why they write the word "period" ? Risk free trial period ? Probably is my english language limitation. Could you tell me what that mean ? thanks!
Patrick
one more thing: is this an alternative framework I can use on my server instead of using google servers ? Just curious... http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu/
Patrick
The language in that sentence is just informal. "Period" really offers no functional benefit to the sentence. They are essentially saying there are no exceptions to this "risk free trial"
Jesse
GWT compiles to HTML and javascript files. If you use java servlets in your application, then you will need a server that supports that functionality. See http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideDeploying.html The link gives a general idea of what you need to do to deploy yourself versus using google app engine. It looks like the link you provided is trying to accomplish the exact same thing that google app engine is accomplishing.
Jesse