I'm just trying to get the basic hello world project built and deployed by following the instructions on https://console.developers.google.com/start/appengine. I got through all the steps but the last one, Step 6, where I got this error:
D:\google-app-engine\appengine-try-java>appcfg.cmd -A aqueous-flames-561 update
target\appengine-try-java
Reading application configuration data...
Apr 24, 2014 4:27:39 PM com.google.apphosting.utils.config.AppEngineWebXmlReader
readAppEngineWebXml
SEVERE: Received exception processing target/appengine-try-java\WEB-INF/appengin
e-web.xml
com.google.apphosting.utils.config.AppEngineConfigException: Could not locate D:
\google-app-engine\appengine-try-java\target\appengine-try-java\WEB-INF\appengin
e-web.xml
at com.google.apphosting.utils.config.AppEngineWebXmlReader.getInputStre
am(AppEngineWebXmlReader.java:140)
at com.google.apphosting.utils.config.AppEngineWebXmlReader.readAppEngin
eWebXml(AppEngineWebXmlReader.java:75)
at com.google.appengine.tools.admin.Application.<init>(Application.java:
185)
at com.google.appengine.tools.admin.Application.readApplication(Applicat
ion.java:322)
at com.google.appengine.tools.admin.AppCfg.readWar(AppCfg.java:280)
at com.google.appengine.tools.admin.AppCfg.readApplication(AppCfg.java:2
71)
at com.google.appengine.tools.admin.AppCfg.<init>(AppCfg.java:209)
at com.google.appengine.tools.admin.AppCfg.<init>(AppCfg.java:121)
at com.google.appengine.tools.admin.AppCfg.main(AppCfg.java:117)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: target\appengine-try-java\WEB-INF\appe
ngine-web.xml (The system cannot find the file specified)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.google.apphosting.utils.config.AppEngineWebXmlReader.getInputStre
am(AppEngineWebXmlReader.java:137)
... 8 more
Bad configuration: Could not locate D:\google-app-engine\appengine-try-java\targ
et\appengine-try-java\WEB-INF\appengine-web.xml
Caused by: target\appengine-try-java\WEB-INF\appengine-web.xml (The system can
not find the file specified)
Please see the logs [C:\Users\MICHAE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\appcfg7867248686279117
668.log] for further information.
D:\google-app-engine\appengine-try-java>
I was able to successfully complete Step 5, Run Your App Locally (https://console.developers.google.com/start/appengine). So I’m not sure how I can run locally if I indeed am missing an appengine-web.xml file.