Cloud-Native Applications in Java

Creating a new Java functions project

Let's create a sample Java functions project. We will make use of the following Maven archetype to generate the dummy project structure:

mvn archetype:generate  -DarchetypeGroupId=com.microsoft.azure  -DarchetypeArtifactId=azure-functions-archetype  

We run the mvn command to provide the requisite inputs:

Define value for property 'groupId': : com.mycompany.product Define value for property 'artifactId': : mycompany-product Define value for property 'version': 1.0-SNAPSHOT: : Define value for property 'package': com.mycompany.product: : Define value for property 'appName': ${artifactId.toLowerCase()}-${package.getClass().forName("java.time.LocalDateTime").getMethod("now").invoke(null).format($package.Class.forName("java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter").getMethod("ofPattern", ...