Tutorial for integrating Windows Azure Platform and Java Web

1. Yosi Pramajaya
JAVA – AZURE INTEGRATION
TUTORIAL

2. Azure’s Cloud Services
 Build infinitely scalable apps and services
 Support rich multi-tier architectures
 Automated application management
(based on Meet WA Presentation by Scott Guthrie)

3. Windows Azure Subscription
 To deploy your application, you must have
Azure’s subscription.
 Windows Azure offered 90-days trial for free.
 Azure’s Free Trial subscription granted you
permission to every Azure’s services with
limited quotas.

4. Registering for Free Trial
 You’ll need:
 Email Address (Yahoo, Gmail, etc)
 Phone Number
 International Credit Card (VISA, Master Card)
 Visit https://www.windowsazure.com/en-
us/pricing/free-trial/, then register your self
 You must NOT use your services exceeded
your quota limit, or your account will be
disabled

5. Preparing your Environment
 For JAVA Developer you must have these:
 Eclipse (or any Eclipse-based IDE)
 JDK 6
 Server (Apache Tomcat 7 is recommended)
 Windows Azure SDK
 Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse
 Windows Azure Subscription
 Go to http://manage.windowsazure.com
 Create your own Cloud Services

6. Preparing your Java Project
 Create a new Dynamic Web Project / Maven
Web project
 Make sure that your project doesn’t have any
ERRORS
 Export your project to .WAR file

7. Preparing your Azure Project
 Create a new Windows Azure Deployment
project
 Set your project configuration:
 Copy your exported .WAR file to
“WorkerRole1/approot/”
 package.xml, find: <component
deploydir="%SERVER_APPS_LOCATION%"
deploymethod="copy" importas=“{your-war-
name}.war" type="server.app"/>, edit with your
.WAR file name

8. Preparing your Azure Project
 Continued:
 Find startupApacheTomcat7.txt in “samples/”
folder, copy all to clipboard
 Find startup.cmd in “WorkerRole1/approot”. Open
with text editor, block all text, paste it.
 Before you begin to the next step, you’ve to
know Azure’s project structure

9. Azure Project’s Structure
 Cloud Services will use “WorkerRole”, it will
have:
 “util” folder. DO NOT EDIT
 “run.cmd” DO NOT EDIT
 “startup.cmd” (You can edit this like the
instruction before this page)
 “YourApplication.war”, your Java-web project
 jdk.zip and tomcat7.zip (if you use Tomcat 7)

10. Azure Project’s Structure
 You can make startup.cmd download the zip
by itself. It will greatly reduce the size of your
project
 In startup.cmd:
 Find script below:
 ::cscript /NoLogo "utildownload.vbs"
"http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-
7/v7.0.26/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.26.zip" "tomcat7.zip“
 Remove the “::”

11. Azure Project’s Structure
 Continued:
 That script will download tomcat7.zip for you
automatically
 For jdk.zip, you should add this code AFTER
“download-tomcat” script
 cscript /NoLogo "utildownload.vbs" "http://java-azure-
for-private.googlecode.com/files/jdk.zip" "jdk.zip“
 Find this script:
 SET WAR_NAME={YourWarName).war

12. Build and Upload
 Right-Click in your Azure project
 Choose Properties, find “Windows Azure”,
change “Build For” to “Deployment to cloud”
 Click “Project” in Menu-Bar, click “Build
Project” (to activate Azure Full Build)
 Refresh, and you’ll find “deploy” folder in
your Azure Project
 Go to WindowsAzure Management Portal
(http://manage.windowsazure.com)

13. Build and Upload
 Click “Cloud Services” tab, I’m sure you have
created one
 Click “CERTIFICATES”, upload your certificate
(.pfx) that located in “AzureProject/cert”.
Default password is: “Password1”
 It’s up to you, to choose “Staging” or
“Production” Environment

14. Build and Upload
 Whether you choose Staging / Production
Environment, the way you upload your
project is the same
 In the bottom of the screen, click “UPLOAD”,
find “.cspkg” and “.cscfg” in your “deploy”
folder
 Waiting until you see the Status become:
“RUNNING”

15. Troubleshooting
 Common problem is when you deploy your
project
 Status is always “RECYCLING”:
 Maybe your web-project contains error. FIX IT
 Maybe you didn’t use the right Project Structure. FIX
IT (look from page 9-11)
 Status is always “BUSY”:
 Just wait for a while. If status become
“RECYCLING”, see above.
 If after you wait for so long, just delete the
production. Upload it again

16. start now
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