Hi everybody I just completed a small server project using Ktor, now I want to run it on a leased server, so how can I package it as well as protect the source code, like creating a APKs on Android?

Package it as fat jar (google shadow plugin to do it for you) and deploy it as systemd (:google:) service on linux server

You can't do graalvm native for ktor easily AFAIK... Unless they added it recently? You need quarkus, micronaut etc...

Make a docker image and run that on the server

maven OR gradle?

@ql562482472 im using Gradle

gradle build,and you will have xxx.jar,copy to server ，java -jar xxx.jar

@ql562482472 Does it protect the source code?

NO, you can use proguard to protect code ; or you use kotlin ,many kotlin byte code is diffcult to Decompile

OK!, thank you guys! 😄