Deploy GWT App to Google App Engine

[Stefan Falk]

Can somebody tell me how I can deploy my GWT App to the Google App engine [1]?

Since I am using gwt-maven-archetype I cannot use the convenient Google Plugin for Eclipse.

I've googled a whole day but I can't find anything. I know that there is a command line tool that is supposed to do that but I can't remember where I saw it or how it's called..

BR; Stefan


[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35817916/how-to-deploy-gwt-app-to-google-app-engine

[Thomas Broyer]

Isn't the appengine-maven-plugin offering a goal to do the upload?

[Stefan Falk]

Well, I don't know. I can remember when I did it last time it was a one-liner in the command line. I think I had something like a secret or API key or something like that and I could deploy the web application to GAE. 

I was searching and searching but I can't find that anymore. How do you deploy your gwt-maven-archetype to GAE (if you do)?

[Greg]

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/maven#uploading_your_app_to_production_app_engine

[Stefan Falk]

I already have a project of type gwt-maven-archetypes. I don't want to change the whole project to another archetype.

[Thomas Broyer]

On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 4:08:37 PM UTC+1, Stefan Falk wrote:

I already have a project of type gwt-maven-archetypes. I don't want to change the whole project to another archetype.

Why would you "change the whole project to another archetype"? An archetype is only a skeleton-generator; the doc talks about the provided appengine archetype to make it easier for people knowing relatively few things about Maven; but that doesn't mean you *have* to use the archetypes.

 

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 21:16:22 UTC+1, Greg wrote:

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/maven#uploading_your_app_to_production_app_engine

From what I read here, you'd do something like:

mvn install (to make your shared and client artifacts available to the server one outside the reactor build)

cd *-server && mvn appengine:update

Of course, that's after you configured the appengine-maven-plugin in the *-server project's POM.

Otherwise, the tool seems to be the com.google.appengine.tools.admin.AppCfg class in the appengine-tools-api.jar from the AppEngine SDK, that you'd call with the "update" command and your WAR file (or exploded  WAR directory, i.e. *-server/target/*-server-*/ after a "mvn package", I can't tell) as arguments.

(note: it took me 10 minutes to find that information from the Maven and Ant documentation pages and a bit of googling; I never used AppEngine)

[Stefan Falk]

Maybe I have to ask: How can I integrate the appengine-maven-plugin correctly into the gwt-maven-archetypes archetype?

BR; Stefan

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 18:22:27 UTC+1, Thomas Broyer wrote:

[Stefan Falk]

Ah sorry, I saw that too late.

Well, okay so my assumption was right. What I did was placing the plugin into the pom.xml of my myapp-server module:

<plugin>

<groupId>com.google.appengine</groupId>

<artifactId>appengine-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<version>${appengine.version}</version>

<configuration>

<enableJarClasses>false</enableJarClasses>

<version>${app.version}</version>

</configuration>

</plugin>

<plugin>

<groupId>com.google.appengine</groupId>

<artifactId>gcloud-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<version>${gcloud.plugin.version}</version>

<configuration>

<set_default>true</set_default>

</configuration>

</plugin>

If that is correct so far I think I should be able to make it work. At the moment though maven is complaining about that it can't find the plugin "appengine" ..

[Rogelio Flores]

I started my gwt + appengine project with Brandon's archetype which already does everything for me:

https://github.com/branflake2267/Archetypes/tree/master/archetypes/gwt-basic-rpc-appengine

This uploads my app (after you build it as mentioned already in the thread)

mvn appengine:update

I don't think I changed many things in the pom.xml besides updating to the latest appengine SDK. At minimum, you can take a look at the pom.xml file to know how to configure it all.

[Stefan Falk]

Would that work for an already existing project?

My problem is this: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=Execution%20default&colspec=ID%20Type%20Component%20Status%20Stars%20Summary%20Language%20Priority%20Owner%20Log&groupby=&sort=&id=12804

at the moment. appengine is either against me or I am doing something wrong and I can't figure out what..

BR; Stefan

[Gilberto]

Hi Stefan,

Did you manage to get it working?

I put a comment on the SO question you made, but I think you didn't see yet.

I have multiple GWT projects running on App Engine, and one of them is open-sourced, maybe it can help you out: https://github.com/gilberto-torrezan/feel-vision (I didn't use any archetypes).

[Stefan Falk]

Hi Gilberto! :)

In fact I saw your comment and I planned to reply as soon as I was going to give the deployment another try XD

My project is at the moment still a little away from actually being deployed to the web but I wanted to build my own toolchain for deployment.

At the moment I am very busy with my actual work and university - but I will take a look and update my question on SO with the trace output as you suggested.

Thank you for helping me here! :)