Google apps / Google app engine relations

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I've got a question concerning the two "products" Google provides : google apps (dedicated gmail, docs, calendar...) and google app engine (application in the cloud).

If I want to develop an application inside google apps, is it necessarily on google app engine ? Or can I develop a basic webapp with wathever i want (spring, grails, or anything else) ?

I understand google app engine since i've already develop on it, but google apps is more obscure.

Behind the question, i want to know if i can use something else than app engine to go on google apps, because app engine limitations are a kind of boring (file upload with blobstore is a mess : 1mb limit, upload with http...)

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as far as I remember the one with the 1mb limit is maximum individual item size inside Memcache. Blobstore max is 2 GB. - Rudy

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You don't need to use App Engine at all. See that the Google Apps Marketplace has tutorials for languages not even supported in App Engine: PHP, Ruby, .NET and Java (ok, this last one is supported ;-):

http://code.google.com/googleapps/marketplace/tutorial.html

And by the way: blobstore upload limit is not 1MB, but 2 gigabytes.