Is it possible to create a NetBeans project to run PayaraMicro? - netbeans-8

Question

I use NetBeans to create Payara Server normal Java Web projects.
But now I would like to run a new Java Web project using Payara Micro.
Today, I'm using a "main class" and I need to open this class, type
Shift+F6 to run, but it would be great if normal F6 would work.
Here is my "main":
public class Run {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
PayaraMicro.getInstance()
.addDeployment("/sistemas/sitesat2mod/build/web/")
.setHttpPort(8080)
.setHttpAutoBind(true)
.bootstrap();
} catch (BootstrapException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Answer 1

There's no direct support for Payara Micro in Netbeans to run web applications yet.
The simplest solution is to open the build.xml configuration file and insert the followin snippet right below the line with the import statement:
<target name="-run-deploy-nb"/>
<target name="run" depends="run-deploy">
<java jar="/path/to/payara-micro.jar">
<jvmarg value="-Xmx256m">
<arg value="--deploy"/>
<arg value="${dist.war}"/>
<arg value="--port"/>
<arg value="8080"/>
<arg value="--autobindhttp"/>
</java>
</target>
Instead of /path/to/payara-micro.jar specify absolute path to your payara-micro.jar, or if payara-micro.jar is inside your project dir in a lib directory, you may specify the relative path with the basedir variable like this:
<java jar="${basedir}/lib/payara-micro.jar">
After you save the build.xml file, you can press F6 and your application will be deployed with Payara Micro. You should then configure command line parameters in build.xml instead of your Run Java class (you should delete your Run class because it won't be used)
Edit:
If you want to restart (redeploy) your application, you have to press Ctrl + Shift + Del to stop the running application before pressing F6 to run the new version. So each time you want to redeploy, first press Ctrl + Shift + Del and then F6.

Answer 2

An alternative approach is to restructure your project to use Maven build system, which is directly supported by Netbeans without any plugins.
There's Payara Micro maven plugin which can be added to the build configuration and this plugin can start and stop Payara Micro. If you configure it to first stop a running instance and then start a new instance, it will restart Payara Micro in a single action.
Most of the new projects these days are based on maven because it's a standard way to structure and build projects and it's supported by many IDE's and even from command line, whereas traditional Ant-based Netbeans projects aren't supported by other IDE's automatically.