Deploying Applications From the Command Line

Deploying an Application

As noted in section Starting an Instance, all Payara Micro actions are run for the Payara Micro JAR, all in one command; it is not possible to start an instance with one command, and deploy an application to it with another.

The general structure of starting, configuring, and deploying an application to an instance is as follows:

java -jar payara-micro.jar _--option1_ _--option2_ ...

Deploying an application package

To deploy a WAR file to an instance, you need to use the --deploy option, followed by the path to the application to deploy. See below for an example of starting a Payara Micro instance and deploying a WAR file:

java -jar payara-micro.jar --deploy /home/user/example.war

Deploying an Exploded War

An exploded war can be deployed to a Payara Micro instance just be specifying the path to the exploded war root directory on the --deploy command line or via the api. The exploded war can be redeployed by creating a file .reload in the root directory of the explded war and updating its timestamp for example using touch .reload in LINUX.

Deploying Multiple Applications

If you want to deploy multiple applications to an instance with the `--deploy option, you must use it once for each application to be deployed; it does not accept multiple paths.

For example, to deploy two applications:

java -jar payara-micro.jar --deploy /home/user/example.war --deploy /home/user/test.war

Alternatively, you can use the --deploymentDir option. This option specifies a directory to scan for deployable archives, allowing you to store all of the applications you wish to be deployed in a directory, and have them be deployed automatically upon instance startup.

java -jar payara-micro.jar --deploymentDir /home/user/deployments

Deploying Applications from a Maven repository

You can deploy an application directly from a Maven repository using the --deployFromGAV option. This option accepts a comma separated string denoting a maven artefact's groupId, artifactId, and version attributes.

java -jar payara-micro.jar --deployFromGAV "fish.payara.examples,test,1.0-SNAPSHOT"

This option can be used multiple times, and in conjunction with the standard --deploy options.

By default, Payara Micro will only search for artefacts in the Maven Central repository. If you wish to search additional repositories, you can add them to the list of repositories to search with the --additionalRepository option:

java -jar payara-micro.jar --deployFromGAV "fish.payara.examples,test,1.0-SNAPSHOT" --additionalRepository https://maven.java.net/content/repositories/promoted/

To search through multiple additional repositories, you can simply call the option multiple times:

java -jar payara-micro.jar --deployFromGAV "fish.payara.examples,test,1.0-SNAPSHOT" --additionalRepository https://maven.java.net/content/repositories/promoted/ --additionalRepository https://raw.github.com/payara/Payara_PatchedProjects/master/

From the Command Line