Running locally
You run your application locally with the native development tools that you usually use.
For details, including specific commands depending on your plugin, see Local testing for the Java 8/Jetty 9 runtime or Local testing for the Java 8 runtime.Deploying your application
Java provides several different tools to deploy to App Engine flexible environment. For command-line deployment, use the Maven or Gradle plugins. To deploy using an IDE, use the IntelliJ plugin.Manually building a container for deployment
To build your container images outside of Google Cloud Platform, you must
first upload your images to a container image repository before you can deploy
your images to App Engine with the gcloud app deploy command.
For example, if you build your container images locally with Docker, you can
push those images to Google Container
Registry and then
specify the URL of your image in the --image-url flag of the command:
gcloud app deploy --image-url gcr.io/[MY_PROJECT_ID]/[MY_CONTAINER_IMAGE]
Docker base images for Java
If you'd like to build a Java custom runtime application from scratch, you can use one of the following base images in a Dockerfile:
| Runtime | Docker command |
|---|---|
| Java 8 | FROM gcr.io/google_appengine/openjdk |
| Java 8 / Jetty 9 | FROM gcr.io/google-appengine/jetty |
Viewing your application
After you deploy your app to App Engine, you can run the following
command to launch your browser and view the app at
http://[YOUR_PROJECT_ID].appspot.com:
gcloud app browse
