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Building JARs on-server with a Buildfile

You can build your application's class files and JAR(s) on the EC2 instances in your environment by invoking a build command from a Buildfile file in your source bundle.

Commands in a Buildfile are only run once and must terminate upon completion, whereas commands in a Procfile are expected to run for the life of the application and will be restarted if they terminate. To run the JARs in your application, use a Procfile.

For details about the placement and syntax of a Buildfile, see Buildfile and Procfile.

The following Buildfile example runs Apache Maven to build a web application from source code. For a sample application that uses this feature, see Java web application samples.

Example Buildfile
build: mvn assembly:assembly -DdescriptorId=jar-with-dependencies

The Java SE platform includes the following build tools, which you can invoke from your build script:

  • javac – Java compiler

  • ant – Apache Ant

  • mvn – Apache Maven

  • gradle – Gradle