creating a custom user database in GAE Java

Question

This is my first time attempting to make a custom user database. I am trying to make a customer user database in Java in the google app engine - I understand that GAE offers a user openID service, however, this does not work for this application.

Can anyone point me in the direction of somewhere or give me the basics behind designing a custom user database for Java in GAE, how to check people are logged in etc etc? Or any other useful places that will help me on my quest.

Cheers

Answer 1

You can look at this boilerplate for inspiration: https://github.com/davps/Spring3-GAE-boilerplate

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That said, you don't need to use OpenID with Google's user service. See the available authentication options here: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/users/#Java_Authentication_options