Azure Toolkit for Eclipse

The Azure Toolkit for Eclipse provides functionality that allow you to easily create, develop, configure, test, and deploy lightweight Java web apps as well as arbitrarily complex, multi-tier, highly available and scalable cloud services to Microsoft Azure using the Eclipse development environment running on Mac OS, Linux and Windows.

It also contains all the key Azure service API clients for Java, exposed as Eclipse libraries, including the Azure Management SDK, Storage SDK, Application Insights SDK, JDBC (for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database) and a supported distro of Apache QPid for Azure AMQP messaging support.

Other key features of the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse include:

• quick deployment of a Java application to an Azure Web App container
• create Spark applications for Azure HDInsight Spark Linux cluster using Java or Scala
• use any JVM with your cloud app, including the OpenJDK (e.g. Azul Zulu) or the Oracle JDK
• deploy any application server, including Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss or GlassFish; or rely on a version of Tomcat or Jetty made available in Azure by Microsoft
• use the Azure Explorer view to navigate and manage your Azure storage accounts (blobs, tables, queue), web apps and HDInsight (Spark) resources
• program against Azure's services such as Storage, Service Bus (including AMQP), Caching, Azure SQL Database and more, using the Azure SDK APIs for Java
• architect your n-tier application for multiple, independently scalable, highly available clusters ("roles") within an Azure cloud service
• enable session affinity ("sticky sessions") and SSL offloading transparently in cloud services, without worrying about configuring your application server
• generate build and publish scripts for automated cloud service deployment via Ant outside of the IDE (for example, using Jenkins or Hudson)
• customize and extend the out-of-the-box functionality of the Toolkit easily with startup scripts, templates, components, etc.
• enable automated telemetry for your applications using Application Insights logging directly into the Azure cloud, regardless of where your application is running

Learn more at our documentation site, and learn more about Java on Azure in general at the Azure Developer Center for Java.