Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse

Deploying the application in Google App Engine

App Engine is Google’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, similar to Elastic Beanstalk from Amazon. In the section Creating Elastic Beanstalk application from Eclipse, we deployed the CourseManagementREST service using Elastic Beanstalk. In this section, we will learn how to deploy the same service using Google App Engine.

Let’s make a copy of the CourseManagementREST project. Right-click on the project in Eclipse Project Explorer and select Copy. Right-click anywhere in Project Explorer and select Paste. Eclipse will prompt you to name the project. Let’s name it CourseManagementREST-GAE. We will deploy this project using Google App Engine.

Let’s configure our project as an App Engine project. ...