Development Tools

Overview of application development tools for Java developers with Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Platform has a range of tools to span across all application development lifecycle.

A general overview of all the tools available for Java developers so that you are aware of the breadth and depth of what's available. You do not need to install any of this at the movement, or only install what you need.

IDE

	IntelliJ	VS Code	Eclipse
Plugin	Cloud Code	Cloud Code	Google Cloud Tools
App Engine Support	Yes	Yes	Yes
Kubernetes Support	Yes	Yes	No
Add Client Libraries	Yes	Yes	No

Maven / Gradle Plugins

	Maven	Gradle
App Engine Support	appengine-maven-plugin	appengine-gradle-plugin
Cloud Function Support	function-maven-plugin	N/A
Containerize with Jib	jib-maven-plugin	jib-gradle-plugin

Framework Support

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud GCP provides 10+ integrations with Spring Boot across Spring Data, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud Streams, and more to provide idiomatic access databases, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Logging.

Micronaut

Micronaut GCP provides integration with GCP services.

Concerns	GCP Service	Micronaut Abstraction
Distributed Tracing	Cloud Trace	Zipkin / Brave

Hibernate

Use Hibernate Cloud Spanner Dialect to continue use Hibernate / JPA to use Cloud Spanner in your application.

R2DBC

Use R2DBC to access database to produce highly concurrent non-blocking microservices.

Database	R2DBC Support
Cloud Spanner	cloud-spanner-r2dbc
Cloud SQL - PostgreSQL	r2dbc-postgresql with Cloud SQL Proxy
Cloud SQL - MySQL	r2dbc-mysql with Cloud SQL Proxy
Cloud SQL - Microsoft SQL Server	r2dbc-mssql with Cloud SQL Proxy

DevOps Tools

Cloud Build

Declare your CI/CD pipeline and run it with Cloud Build. See Cloud Build with Java application documentation.

Artifact Registry

Publish Java artifacts to Artifact Registry, which can host Maven repositories. See Artifact Repository section.

Cloud Trace

Use Spring Cloud Sleuth and send Distributed Tracing data to Cloud Trace, using Spring Cloud GCP. See Trace section.

Cloud Logging

Aggregate logs into a centralized logging console to easily search and view logs. See Logging section.

Error Reporting

Automatically identifies Java exceptions and produce reports. Easily see new exceptions and their frequencies. See Logging section.

Cloud Monitoring

Collect system and application metrics, build dashboards, and setup alerts. See Metrics section.

Cloud Debugger

Cloud Debugger can debug your production application without halting the application. Cloud Debugger can capture application state as a Snapshot, and also able to add additional log messages without redeploying the code. See Cloud Debugger section.

Cloud Profiler

Cloud Profiler can continuously profile CPU and heap usages in a production application with minimal overhead. The profiled flame graph can help you understand performance hotspots. See Cloud Profiler section.