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and will be deprecated
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applications, even if your organization previously used an organization policy to
re-enable deployments of legacy runtimes. Your existing Java
8 applications will continue to run and receive traffic after their
deprecation date. We recommend that
you migrate to the latest supported version of Java.
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Datastore
is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and
ease of application development.
The pages in this section describe how to access Datastore with
App Engine APIs. Apps that use these APIs can only run in
App Engine and will need to upgrade to the
recommended Google Cloud APIs
before migrating to newer App Engine runtimes. The recommended APIs for
Datastore are in the Google Cloud Client Library and enable your
app to run in App Engine as well as other environments that support Java 8.
Using Objectify with Datastore
Instead of using App Engine APIs or Google Cloud APIs, you can use Objectify
to access Datastore.
Objectify
is an open-source API for Cloud Datastore that provides a higher-level of
abstraction than App Engine APIs and Google Cloud APIs. While apps that use
earlier versions of Objectify can only run in App Engine, apps that
use version 6 and later can run in App Engine as well as other
environments that support Java 8.
If you plan to use Objectify, it's recommended that you use version 6
or later.
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