Creating an App Engine Flexible Application

Cloud Tools for Eclipse provides a wizard inside Eclipse to create new applications for the App Engine flexible environment.

Before you begin

1. Sign in to your Google Account.

   If you don't already have one, sign up for a new account.

2. Select or create a GCP project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources you create in this tutorial, create a new project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project and tutorial.

   Go to the Manage resources page

3. Make sure that billing is enabled for your project.

   Learn how to enable billing

4. Ensure you have the latest version of Cloud Tools for Eclipse.

Creating a flex application

To create an App Engine application for the flex environment:

1. Click the Google Cloud Platform toolbar button .

2. Select Create New Project > Google App Engine Flexible Java Project....

   The New App Engine Flexible Project wizard displays.

   

3. Enter a Project name for your application.

4. If you want, enter values for the optional fields:

   1. Enter a Java package name.

   2. Select the Create as Maven project checkbox to generate a pom.xml and configure the Eclipse project to use the Maven builder.

   3. Enter the Group ID and Artifact ID for your Maven project.

5. Click Finish.

   The new application appears in the Eclipse Project Explorer.

What's next

• Once you've created an application, you can run and debug it on your local workstation.