This web app demonstrates using asynchronous servlet techniques to reduce server resources.

The code for this tutorial is here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/java-docs-samples/managed_vms/async-rest.

First, complete the following steps:

• Create your project and have it enabled for Managed VMs.
• Obtain an app key for the Google Places WebService API.
• Download and install the Beta build of the Google Cloud SDK.
• Install the Cloud SDK app-engine-java component.
• Authenticate wth the gcloud SDK: gcloud auth login.
• Install Maven if you haven't already.

To run locally, you need to edit the pom.xml file and replace YOUR_PLACES_APP_KEY with the value of your key:

<places.appkey>YOUR_PLACES_APP_KEY</places.appkey>

To deploy to gcloud, you need to edit the src/main/appengine/app.yaml file and replace YOUR_PLACES_APP_KEY with the value of your key:

PLACES_APPKEY: 'YOUR_PLACES_APP_KEY'

The application does not use any AppEngine specific services, so you can run it simply on your local machine by doing:

 mvn jetty:run

Go to http://localhost:8080 to see the webapp.

To automatically stage and deploy the webapp to your project in the cloud do:

mvn appengine:deploy

See here for more information on the GCloud Maven Plugin.