App Engine Java VM Runtime Websocket Chat Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Google Inc.

Sample websocket chat application for use with App Engine Java VM Runtime.

Requires Apache Maven 3.1 or greater, and JDK 7+ in order to run. This application needs to be deployed to the App Engine Managed VMs.

In order to run this application, you also need to configure the Compute Engine firewall to allow incoming connections to the port 65080 by default.

Here is how to configure the Compute Engine firewall.

1. Go to the [cloud console][https://cloud.google.com/console].
2. Select your Cloud project.
3. Select Compute Engine
4. Click the Network menu then click the default network.
5. Click Add Firewall rule button in the Firewalls rules section.
6. Type chatservice in the Name field, 0.0.0.0/0 in the Source IP Ranges field and tcp:65080 in the Allowed protocols or ports field, then click Create button.

Now you're good to go!

To build:

Install the Cloud SDK for Managed VMs To run the application, do the following:

1. Set the correct Cloud SDK project via gcloud config set project YOUR_PROJECT.
2. Run mvn gcloud:deploy
3. Visit http://YOUR_PROJECT.appspot.com.

For further information, consult the Java App Engine documentation.

To see all the available goals for the Cloud SDK plugin, run

mvn help:describe -Dplugin=gcloud