A sample Java application to display famous quotes.

Run mvn package to create JAR, and mvn package -Pwar to create WAR.

Configuration Files

4 configuration files are provided:

• application.yml is used for local development, and configures an in memory H2 database
• deployed-application.yml is processed by Octopus during a deployment to include the environment name, and configures a PostgresSQL database
• docker-application.yml is used by the Docker image, and configures an in memory H2 database
• postgress-application.yml can be used for local development against a PostgresSQL database

Deploying to Sonatype

To deploy to Sonatype run the command:

mvn -Psonatype "-Dgpg.keyname=gpgkeyname" "-Dgpg.passphrase=keypassword" clean deploy

Note that you need to configure ~/.m2/settings.xml with your Sonatype credentials. See these instructions for details.

The WAR file has been published as com.octopus:randomquotes, and is available on Maven central.

Deploying to Google App Engine

The following app.yaml file can be saved in a directory also containing a copy of the uberjar jar file:

runtime: java
env: flex

handlers:
- url: /.*
  script: this field is required, but ignored
  
manual_scaling:
  instances: 1
  
resources:
  cpu: 1
  memory_gb: 2
  disk_size_gb: 10

It is then deployed with:

gcloud app deploy