Google Cloud Platform

Hi there

I am in the process of developing a Java application that runs on Google app engine and integrates with Business Catalyst. The reason for doing that is because I want to be able to create a better way of filtering products for my client. The application retrieves products and catalogues from BC and then stores it on GAE in the way I want it to be stored so it can be retrieved quickly.

The backend is Java and the frontend is Angluarjs. So far it works really good, I am doing a lot of caching to improve performance. I will post a link once it is finished.

Hi again

As mentioned above, this is the BC site that I have integrated with Google App Engine:

http://www.smellycat.co.nz/perfume-for-women

I am happy to answer any questions!

You can do that just with jQuery in BC without anything like the google App Engine as a note.

Liam has it correct, re-write the page in Javascript / Jquery, no serverside code needed

Thanks for the feedback guys. How would you deal with the filtering system? You'll see that the available filter options get adjusted based on previous selections. I was worried that the application would become very slow if the filtering wasn't done server side. The anticipated number of products my client has given me is 10,000.

Karin,

What is your end goal here? You've listed a few questions but not what you are trying to do overall, entering in 10,000 products isn't a problem, what did you need to do with them that you can't do right now?

Oh, I just wanted to get your input as to how you  achieve the same web application using only Javascript. I am curious to find out how I could have done the same thing without my server side code. I am happy with the way the system works now, but you know, there's always things to learn and improve My decision to use server side code was based on the fact that my client will eventually have 10,000 products in the store, and also because I didn't think I could make the filter work exactly as per requirements client side only. They currently have about 1,000 products  which is not a problem, but once they load in all the new ones (up to ~10,000) I am worried a client side only solution would not perform very well.

The reason why I posted in the first place is because someone asked about BC integration with Google, and since I was working on a Google App Engine integration, I thought I'd mention it in case someone wanted to find out more about it

Take a gander and the browse panel tag, product search and then think how awesome jQuery is....

I helped one of the guys implement that just yesterday on a site and got the guts of it going in 2 hours.

Liam, Sounds like exactley what I need.  Can you point to some examples of what can be done with the browse pannel + code samples ?