Heroku, Java, Procfile, Could not find or load main class

dyatesdude Published at Dev

dyatesdude

I'm using heroku with maven to run a server. My goal is to have heroku run the java class server.class as a web dyno.

How would I write a procfile to execute the java program server.class as web?

My current Procfile

web: java -cp $JAVA_OPTS target/classes/v1/a1/server

My error.(From heroku logs)

Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx350m -Xss512k -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
Error: Could not find or load main class target.classes.v1.a1.server
State changed from starting to crashed

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The procfile

web: java -cp $JAVA_OPTS target/classes/v1/a1/*

Returns

Error: Could not find or load main class target.classes.v1.a1.myOtherClass

My original Procfile(Also didn't work)

web: java -cp target/classes/:target/dependency/* server

My file structure is a bit different than the example given in the heroku docs so I modified the procfile a bit.
My dependencies are not inside /target/dependencies.
My classes are inside target/classes/v1/a1/.
server.java has a main method and valid constructor method.
All my dependencies seem to be in order.
Maven does builds my .java files into .class files in the target directory.
I'm on unix so quotes and semicolons probably won't work.

codefinger

I think your Procfile should contain:

web: java -cp target/classes/:target/dependency/* v1.a1.server

This assumes the following:

Your server class is in the file target/v1/a1/server.class
The Java code for your server class includes package v1.a1;
Your class name and file name are lowercase.

A few problems I noticed in your earlier attempts included:

You are passing $JAVA_OPTS to the -cp options (incorrect)
You are using / instead of . in the fully qualified class name (incorrect)
You are including the target dir in the fully qualified class name (incorrect)

The files in the target/classes/ and target/dependency/ directory belong on the classpath (i.e. passed to -cp) while the last argument to the java command should be the fully qualified class name (in the form package.Class).

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