This document contains an agenda and slides for a presentation on Spring Boot. The presentation introduces Spring Boot, which allows developers to rapidly build production-grade Spring applications with minimal configuration. It demonstrates how to quickly create a "Hello World" application using Spring Boot and discusses some of the features it provides out-of-the-box like embedded servers and externalized configuration. The presentation also shows how to add additional functionality like Thymeleaf templates and actuator endpoints to monitor and manage applications.
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Agenda
Goal: Introduce developers to Spring Boot, an opinionated way to rapidly
build production grade Spring applications quickly and with minimal fuss.
Introduction to Spring Boot
• Where it fits in the Spring eco system
• Goals, high level features, etc.
Demo: Quick Start
Behind the scenes
More demos, more Boot
End bits (links and such)
ToDo: Adding new features to Boot
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What is Pivotal?
Vmware and EMC spin out
• vFabric from vmware
• Greenplum MPP DB and Hadoop from EMC
• Agile development acquisitions Pivotal Labs and Xtreme Labs
Paul Maritz CEO
• Former CEO vmware.
Custodian of various OSS projects including Spring
• and RabbitMQ, Redis, CloudFondry, Groovy/Grails, …
Commercial interests in Big/Fast Data, PaaS, Enterprise tooling
• Spring is an enabling technology
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Big Spring Diagram with Boot
WEB
Controllers, REST,
WebSocket
INTEGRATION
Channels, Adapters,
Filters, Transformers
BATCH
Jobs, Steps,
Readers, Writers
BIG DATA
Ingestion, Export,
Orchestration, Hadoop
DATA
NON-RELATIONALRELATIONAL
CORE
GROOVYFRAMEWORK SECURITY REACTOR
GRAILS
Full-stack, Web
XD
Stream, Taps, Jobs
BOOT
Bootable, Minimal, Ops-Ready
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Goals
Provide a radically faster and widely accessible getting started
experience
Be opinionated out of the box, but get out of the way quickly as
requirements start to diverge from the defaults
Provide a range of non-functional features that are common to large
classes of projects (e.g. embedded servers, security, metrics, health
checks, externalized configuration)
Absolutely no code generation and no requirement for XML
configuration
V0.5.0M4
(Question: What about Roo?)
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Getting Started REALLY Quickly
app.groovy:
@Controller
class ThisWillActuallyRun
{
@RequestMapping("/")
@ResponseBody
String home() { return "Hello World!" }
}
then
$ spring run app.groovy
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What Just Happened?
SpringApplication: convenient way to write a main() method that
loads a Spring context
@EnableAutoConfiguration: optional annotation that adds stuff to
your context, including...
EmbeddedServletContainerFactory: added to your context if a
server is available on the classpath
CommandLineRunner: a hook to run application-specific code after
the context is created
JarLauncher was added to the JAR file
It’s beginning to look a lot like Java …
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Binding to Command Line Arguments
SpringApplication binds its own bean properties to command line
arguments, and then adds them to the Spring Environment, e.g.
$ java -jar target/*.jar --server.port=9000
Externalize Config
• Just put application.properties in your classpath, e.g.
application.properties
server.port: 9000
Use YAML (if you must)
• Just put application.yml in your classpath
Both properties and YAML add entries with period-separated paths
to the Spring Environment.
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Add a Thymeleaf UI
Add Thymeleaf to the classpath and see it render a view
Spring Boot Autoconfigure has added all the boilerplate stuff
Common configuration options via spring.thymeleaf.*, e.g.
spring.thymeleaf.prefix:classpath:/templates/ (location of templates)
spring.tjymeleaf.cache:true (set to false to reload templates when
changed)
Extend and override:
add Thymeleaf IDialect beans add thymeleafViewResolver add
SpringTemplateEngine add defaultTemplateResolver
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Currently Available Auto-configured Behavior
Embedded servlet container (Tomcat or Jetty) DataSource and
JdbcTemplate
JPA
Spring Data JPA (scan for repositories) Thymeleaf
Batch processing
Reactor for events and async processing Actuator features
(Security, Audit, Metrics, Trace)
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The Actuator
Adds common non-functional features to your application and
exposes MVC endpoints to interact with them.
Security
Secure endpoints: /metrics, /health, /trace, /dump,
/shutdown, /beans Audit
/info
If embedded in a web app or web service can use the same port or a
different one (and a different network interface).
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Other
Security
• Use Actuator
• Can also use Spring Security
Logging
• Spring Boot provides default configuration files for 3 common logging
frameworks: logback, log4j and java.util.logging
• Starters (and Samples) use logback
External configuration and classpath influence runtime behaviour
LoggingApplicationContextInitializer sets it all up
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Does Anybody Use This For Real?
We do
• Spring
Boot app
• Thymeleaf
UI
• Hosted on
Cloud
Foundry