com.google.appengine.tools
Class KickStart

java.lang.Object
  com.google.appengine.tools.KickStart

public class KickStart
extends java.lang.Object

Launches a process in an operating-system agnostic way. Helps us avoid idiosyncracies in scripts for different platforms. Currently this only works for DevAppServerMain. Takes a command line invocation like:

 java -cp ../lib/appengine-tools-api.jar com.google.appengine.tools.KickStart \
   --jvm_flag="-Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.props"
   com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain \
   --jvm_flag="-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,address=7000"
   --address=localhost --port=5005 appDir
 

and turns it into:

 java -cp <an_absolute_path>/lib/appengine-tools-api.jar \
   -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.props \
   -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,address=7000 \
   com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain \
   --address=localhost --port=5005 <an_absolute_path>/appDir
 

while also setting its working directory (if appropriate).

All arguments between com.google.appengine.tools.KickStart and com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain, as well as all --jvm_flag arguments after DevAppServerMain, are consumed by KickStart. The remaining options after DevAppServerMain are given as arguments to DevAppServerMain, without interpretation by KickStart. At present, the only valid option to KickStart itself is:

--jvm_flag=<vm_arg>

Passes <vm_arg> as a JVM argument for the child JVM. May be repeated.

Method Summary

static void

main(java.lang.String[] args)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)