Demonstrate the use of following PaaS tool: Google App Engine

Demonstrate the use of following PaaS tool: Google App Engine

Google App Engine is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) product that provides developers and enterprises with access to Google's scalable hosting with different cloud computing advantages.

Lets see how to create a web application locally and then deploy it on the google cloud PaaS platform

Requirements

Eclipse java development

appengine-java-sdk

google account

Steps

• Install google app engine plugin in Eclipse as follows.
Go to Help-- Install New Software—Add
paste the google app engine link (as per your eclipse version) in the location and click ok
get the links here . . . .
Restart Eclipse

• Download appengine-java-sdk and unzip
get it from here

• Click on the “g” icon and create new web application. Ckeck google app engine and configure the SDK. Select app engine java sdk
• Login to google cloud. (cloud.google.com)
• Click on to consol – Menu – I AM & Admin
• Create a project and note down the project id
• In eclipse Expand war-WEB-INF
• Open appengine-web.xml file
• In this file in application tag type your project id.
• Right Click on your project then click on to “g” icon and click deploy to app engine

FAQ

Cloud Service models and its example
PaaS
Google App Engine
Web Service and its types?
SOAP & REST web service