We have started new project on spring stack and using latest versions. But we have workflow requirement and I used activiti in past. But as I see there is no spring boot 2 support for activiti and camunda. Can anybody suggest which BPM is best that can be integrated with spring boot 2.
You will find a bunch of Spring Boot 2 starters in the Flowable github repo.
The documentation explains step-by-step how to create a BPM enabled Spring Boot application. There is also the blog post The road to Spring Boot 2.0 that the improved support for Flowable within Spring Boot as part of the Flowable 6.3.0 release.
You ask for suggestions on which BPM is best. Well, I cannot be objective since I am part of the Flowable Team, but I can say that our Spring Boot implementation is pretty neat:
All engines are supported (BPMN, CMMN, DMN), both embedded and exposing their respective REST APIs.
There is an automatic configuration of Spring Security to use the Flowable IDM engine (in case no other custom security is configured).
There is no "EE" version of the starter. Flowable provides Spring Boot 2 support 100% Open Source.
The Spring Actuator integration is quite powerful.
Did I mention Open Source? ;-)
In order to get the all engines you would need to use the flowable-spring-boot-starter(-rest) dependency. The (-rest) needs to be used if you want the Flowable REST APIs to be automatically configured.
There is also the option to run the BPMN, CMMN or DMN engines in standalone mode. For that you would need one of the following dependencies:
flowable-spring-boot-starter-process(-rest)
flowable-spring-boot-starter-cmmn(-rest)
flowable-spring-boot-starter-dmn(-rest)
So, compare for yourself, but for me, it's pretty clear and of course I am open to discussion.
The Activiti is working on Activiti Cloud fully based on Spring Boot 2 and Spring Cloud Finchley (targeting kubernetes deployments, but it can be used outside kubernetes if that is not your thing) if you are looking for a BPMN runtime for Cloud Native applications. We are working hard on releasing the first Beta1 release at the moment, and we will very welcome feedback about it. Hope this helps.
If you use the camunda-bpm-spring-boot-starter you can write self contained services running camunda process engine with spring boot 2.
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I am in the process of building a set of shared libraries using custom Spring Boot starter auto configuration per guidance from https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.6.7/reference/htmlsingle/#features.developing-auto-configuration. Great feature offered by Spring Boot by the way! My question is that how does Spring Native support these types of custom Spring Boot Starter libraries? Are extra reflection configurations or native hints required? I have been evaluating Spring Native and I am very excited about the performance boost it brings to Spring Boot apps! I am eagerly awaiting Spring Boot 3 GA to be released! Any advice on how Spring Boot 3 and/or Spring Native handles custom Spring Boot starter libraries and if any extra configurations are required will be greatly appreciated!
I reached out to Sébastien Deleuze, one of the members on Spring Native team, and his response to my question is as follows. Thanks Sébastien!
"Spring Native and the upcoming Spring Boot 3 should support this kind of autoconfiguration if they follow certain guidelines, like using #Configuration(proxyBeanMethods=false).
See https://docs.spring.io/spring-native/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#how-to-contribute-design for more details.
Spring Boot 3 will likely define more clearly the guidelines."
I want to know what spring dependencies should I use on my website to make the work easy and spring or spring boot which one is better. also, suggest some frontend technologies that I can use to make the website smart.
It's a very broad question. And it all depends on what features you want in your web site. Just listing few basic module to give you some hints.
Spring MVC - For web application with MVC Pattern
Spring Security - To secure your app
Spring ORM - If using any ORM tool like hibernate
You need to explore more on the basis of your need.
Spring Boot vs Spring:
You should use Spring Boot if you are starting new project. Spring Boot came to make development process easier when using Spring Framework. In Spring, developer had to write lots of code to configure beans and dependencies. Spring Boot automated this process so that you no longer do it by yourself but Spring Boot will take care of it. Plus it provides some extra tools (In built Web Server, in Memory DB, tool to monitor and manage Spring Boot App )
Try to create a simple web app in Spring and Spring Boot to understand the difference.
Front-end Technologies:
JavaScript based framework/lib like Angular,React,Vue etc. are the trend for front-end now a days. Again there are pros and cons of each of them. Hence you need to evaluate, what suits you better as per your requirement.
I have a set of projects in Spring framework and I have to Find the ones which can be converted to Spring boot.
Is there anything that is related to Spring framework and cannot be converted to spring boot ? In my research, I Could not Find something like that.
But does anyone know something, like a dependency, which would force the project to stay in Spring framework ?
Spring Boot uses the Spring Framework as a foundation and improvises on it. It simplifies Spring dependencies and runs applications straight from a command line. Spring Boot provides several features to help manage enterprise applications easily. Spring Boot is not a replacement for the Spring, but it’s a tool for working faster and easier on Spring applications. It simplifies much of the architecture by adding a layer that helps automate configuration and deployment while making it easier to add new features.
Most of the changes for migrating Spring Framework application to Spring Boot are related to configurations.This migration will have minimal impact on the application code or other custom components.Spring Boot brings a number of advantages to the development.
It simplifies Spring dependencies by taking the opinionated view.
Spring Boot provides a preconfigured set of technologies/framework to reduces error-prone configuration so we as a developer focused on building our business logic and not thinking of project setup.
You really don’t need those big XML configurations for your project.
Embed Tomcat, Jetty or Undertow directly.
Provide opinionated Maven POM to simplify your configurations.
Application metrics and health check using actuator module.
Externalization of the configuration files.
Good to refer this for migrating from Spring to Spring Boot application: https://www.javadevjournal.com/spring-boot/migrating-from-spring-to-spring-boot/
I want to use ODL framework for SDN development, in that internally OSGI framework is used to (karaf). Apart from that i want to use spring boot and spring cloud to achieve cloud services also. It is possible to use these all framework as a single unit. and how we can achieve this please tell.
This questions is somewhat overly broad and generic, but I'll try to answer it anyway making two assumptions:
If you want to use Spring Boot / Cloud "in-process", that is within ODL/ Karaf, then the answer to that would be that such an architecture would make little sense. Karaf (not ODL) has some Spring support as far as I know, but you'll probably have a hard time to marry that "nicely" with ODL...
The architecture of ODL is that you define YANG models and the RPCs you define in them "automagically" get exposed as HTTP REST APIs (via something called RESTCONF), and you can then consume those from other applications.
But if by your question you just mean if you can write a separate new Spring Boot / Cloud application and from that invoke OpenDaylight services via remote RESTCONF, then the answer is that this is certainly possible - and the recommended way to write integrations.
BTW: In this context, you may also be interested in https://lighty.io.
PS: You could have a look at https://github.com/vorburger/opendaylight-simple/ for some inspiration as well; but that is a POC which is not ready for consumption by you.
It's possible to use Spring Boot in OSGI container.
Please, see my answer on similar question: Can Spring Boot be used with OSGi ? If not, any plans to have an OSGi Spring Boot?
Here's a link to Spring Boot + Apache Karaf demo app: https://github.com/StasKolodyuk/osgi-spring-boot-demo
I have started using spring boot 2.0.0-Snapshot and I see that all Metric related classes and interfaces does not exists ?
Example:
The jar spring-boot-actuator-2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar does not have package
org.springframework.boot.actuate.metrics.writer at all
Are they moved to somewhere else?
In Spring Boot 2 the previous metrics implementation has been replaced by integration with Micrometer. From the release notes:
Spring Boot’s own metrics have been replaced with support, including auto-configuration, for Micrometer and dimensional metrics. You can learn more about Micrometer in its user manual and Spring Boot’s reference guide
I can't find any guide for migrating from 1.x Spring Boot Metrics to 2.x Spring Boot Metrics but this change is quite recent so I suspect any such docs are a TODO. In the meantime, you could perhaps dig into the Pull Request or follow the Spring Boot 2 docs ...
Micrometer provides a separate module for each supported monitoring system. Depending on one (or more) of these modules is sufficient to get started with Micrometer in your Spring Boot application. To learn more about Micrometer’s capabilities, please refer to its reference documentation.