How to use Modules in Google App Engine and add a target to them using Task Queue (Java)?

Question

I have a task that exceeds more than 10 minutes deadline of the Task Queue. Going through different documentations, I found that using modules I could run an instance that would

Answer 1

Modules and Services are the same thing, they're similar to the old backends (which still work, but are deprecated).

There are two basic ways of getting modules to work:

• Create an EAR and deploy that
• Deploy services independently as WAR files (which is probably what you're doing now to the default module)

The second option is probably easier, because it's just a matter of changing your application-web.xml. You could have a repo or branch per module, or just a build process that changes the module you're targeting.

Right now your application-web.xml probably has something like this:

@appId@
@appVersion@    
default   

change it to something like this

@appId@
@appVersion@    
long-running-service
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You configure the queue itself to target a specific module in queue.xml See here.