This is a source code of OldAms.nl - historical collection of Amsterdam photos on a map
See the Google App Engine standard environment documentation for more detailed instructions.
- Java 8
- Maven (at least 3.5)
- Google Cloud SDK (aka gcloud)
Per terms of use of the data within oldams collection, dataset is not published publically, contributors can download it here (requires contributor permission in the repository):
gcloud init
gcloud auth application-default login
mvn appengine:run
mvn appengine:deploy
mvn verify
As you add / modify the source code (src/main/java/...) it's very useful to add
unit testing
to (src/main/test/...). The following resources are quite useful:
An easy way to keep your projects up to date is to use the maven [Versions plugin][versions-plugin].
mvn versions:display-plugin-updates
mvn versions:display-dependency-updates
mvn versions:use-latest-versions
Note - Be careful when changing javax.servlet as App Engine Standard uses 3.1 for Java 8, and 2.5
for Java 7.
Our usual process is to test, update the versions, then test again before committing back.