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Francisco Javier Bonillo Ponce
Francisco Javier Bonillo Ponce

Reputation: 23

Upload jar executable to Azure and running

I have an application developed in java. I have exported it to an executable jar and I would like to upload it to azure so that it runs with a certain schedule. Until now it has been impossible for me to know how it is done. I have done a web service with eclipse and if it is easy to deploy it in azure and make it work but not executable. Can someone tell me how it is done?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1406

Answers (2)

Peter Pan
Peter Pan

Reputation: 24148

It sounds like you want to run an executable jar file with a time trigger on Azure. The simple way is to deploy your jar file as a WebJob on Azure WebApp. Here is the steps to do it as below.

  1. Create a .bat file named run.bat and write the follow commands as below.

    set JAVA_HOME=D:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_172
set CLASSPATH=.;%JAVA_HOME%\lib
set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH%
java -jar <your jar file name>.jar

  2. Compress the run.bat file and your jar file to a zip file, then to deploy it with Scheduled trigger and a CRON Expression value on Azure portal.

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Then, you can start it on Azure portal, and to see the running logs via Logs button.

Note: for more information about CRON Expression or others, please see the section CRON expressions of the offical tutorial Run Background tasks with WebJobs in Azure App Service.

Upvotes: 2

George Chen
George Chen

Reputation: 14334

From your description, i think your project missing a web.config which should be deployed at the wwwroot path.

Here is a sample web.config file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <add name="httpPlatformHandler" path="*" verb="*" modules="httpPlatformHandler" resourceType="Unspecified" />
    </handlers>
    <httpPlatform processPath="%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe"
        arguments="-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dserver.port=%HTTP_PLATFORM_PORT% -jar &quot;%HOME%\site\wwwroot\ROOT.jar&quot;">
    </httpPlatform>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

And make sure upload your jar file to home\site\wwwroot\bin folder. Further more information you could refer to this doc:Running java jar file to serve web requests on Azure App Service Web Apps.

Upvotes: 0

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