Failed to deploy application

[yxue8]

I was trying to deploy App Inventor 2 (Not the one from sample app, I compiled from the source) with Appscale.
It returned a error:
archive must have app.yaml

I'm not sure what to do here, the WAR directory is under appinventor2/appengine/ , clearly I can't point at appengine.

[cdonati]

If you check the appengine-web.xml file in the war directory, does it have java8 defined as the runtime parameter?

Unfortunately, we don't have support for the java8 runtime yet, but we're hoping to support it soon. We should have preliminary support for it in master within a month or so.

[yxue8]

Thank you for your reply!

I checked appengine-web.xml file, and JAVA8 is defined as the runtime parameter. My next question is what java runtime is the sample app running on? Because the sample app deployed successfully.

If Appscale have preliminary support for JAVA8, is that means App Inventor 2 will be able to deploy on Appscale (Despite the 1.9.x SDK problem)?

[cdonati]

The sample app uses the java7 runtime. It was added to the sample apps repo before GAE had the java8 runtime.

Our java8 runtime support will likely be based on a much newer SDK, so I'm hopeful that we will be able to get the latest App Inventor working without too much trouble.