Question: App engine Java 11 example for deploying Helidon?

[ksurendra]

Describe the issue

Any projects in-progress or plans to create an example for Helidon at https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/java-docs-samples/tree/master/appengine-java11 ?

There was a mention of Helidon (as an example framework though) at https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/turn-it-up-to-eleven-java-11-runtime-comes-to-app-engine

[averikitsch]

Currently, there are no plans to provide a Helidon example. If the app packages as a jar, the only step you'll need to do is add an app.yaml file similar to the other framework examples (Spring Boot, Vert.x).

[barchetta]

For reference here is an example for Helidon SE and MP:

• https://github.com/barchetta/helidon-google-app-engine-example/

A couple things to note:

1. Make sure your application obeys the PORT environment variable, and configures its server to use that port.
2. Make sure your app.yaml is in the same directory as your jar and defines a custom entry point. The example above uses:

runtime: java11
entrypoint: java -Xmx64m -jar helidon-quickstart-se.jar

Helidon uses "thin" jars and App Engine seems to handle this AOK as mentioned here: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java11/runtime#application_startup

[ksurendra]

Another example i developed is at #2967