I followed the tutorial below.
https://developers.google.com/eclipse/docs/running_and_debugging_2_0
which basically added a GAE backend to my existing app.
this happen because your deploy back-end is not fully deployed. just re-deploy your back-end and make sure you got the message deploy succeed. you can check the detail deploy process on the top page header. also, you can test by visiting the url to check:
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/?base=https://[YOUR_PROJECT_ID].appspot.com/_ah/api#p/