Is there a way to create a simple CRUD App using Spring Boot and an Existing Database?
You could look at Spring Roo. Its entire purpose is to allow rapid application generation. There is also support for reverse engineering an app from an existing database.
Version 2 will apparently also support Spring Boot, but I don't know if database reverse engineering already made it into v2. You could always try generating your application and adding Spring Boot later on.
I haven't much used it myself so unfortunately I can't offer you much guidance on its actual use - but you should be able to find some tutorials on Google, and StackOverflow contains several questions and answers on Spring Roo as well.
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I have been trying to set up a Spring Web application to use Azure Active Directory.
All the samples that I have found online are based on Spring Boot, is there a simple example that shows setting up spring framework web app only without using Spring Boot?
I am having no luck finding stuff, I am also trying to figure out how to convert all the spring boot autoconfig. Surely there is a sample somewhere that makes it easy to use for a Spring Framework only web-app?
I was able to figure this out somewhat. I'm very new to OAuth so still trying to learn as I go.
Basically I followed the Spring Reference and got things working using the override auto-configuration sections at https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/servlet/oauth2/index.html
It also helped that I updated the Spring Framework versions to the latest and made sure I used the correct dependencies according to that reference site
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.
My team currently has an old JSF 1.1 / Spring2 / Weblogic Monolith Application. As we start towards modernizing our application they want us to take our current architecture, as is, and basically shoe horn it into Spring Boot.
We aren't talking about breaking it down into micro-services at this point, but basically a lift from our current setup, taking Weblogic out of the picture, and running it in Spring Boot with Hikari Data Sources.
Can this be easily done? I haven't found a way to do it without extensive code changes and I don't mind suggesting a "Lets break it down into a micro-services in the next Product Increment" approach.
Outside of re-architecting our application (as we plan in the future) or doing quite a lot of code change, are there any other options?
If you do not use JavaEE for Weblogic, you can migrate your application to the Spring Boot easy enough. The main thing is the correct import of configuration, components, resources and properties. See: example.
If you used in your legacy project JPA or even JDBC to rewrite backend to Spring Data is not very difficult.
From my point of view the main difficulty is the JSF version you are using. I would refuse it, because: 1) it is not fully compatible with Spring boot and 2) it is already out of date today. It takes a lot of effort to put it into the Spring Boot and still it will not work completely. If there is no time and resources to change this view technology to another, you will have to finish it to Spring Boot.
I don't see other real alternatives
As part of a new web application project, I'm planning to learn Spring. I started to read through the Spring framework reference. While I was googling, I came across Spring boot. What I understood is that spring boot helps to build application much faster than spring by reducing configuration. Now I'm little confused whether should I continue learning spring or jump to spring boot. My intention is to understand how spring works as a framework rather than a few features. So please let me know, as a beginner what should I do? First, learn Spring and then spring boot or vice-versa.
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Ok, I know it's a while since I asked this question. I kind of have an answer (personal one)
I started with Spring Boot and so far built one Spring Boot REST application. Yes, as others said, Spring Boot, helps you to get started quickly and being new to some language/technology, I would love to see a working module ASAP. So Spring boot helps you with that.
Later depending on your interest, you can start exploring in-depth how Spring boot does that magic.
So, in summary, go with Spring Boot and then deep dive to understand the underlying concept. Again this is my opinion.
Thanks, everyone for your inputs/suggestions.
If you want to develop web applications especially micro-services, I will recommend that you should learn Spring Boot first.
The first reason is that there are many resources and examples on
web, so you can easily find what you need.
The second reason is that Spring Framework (including Spring Boot) is
suitable for PaaS environment especially Pivotal. Therefore you can
rapidly deploy your applications without too much effort.
First of all, learn how Spring applications work.
Spring applications are based on the Object Relation Model. You need to understand the annotations and why we use them. Then you have to learn how Spring MVC works. Up to here, both Spring and Spring Boot are similar. Basically, Spring Boot is made so that a Spring-based application can be made very easily. Spring Boot is very good framework for the Web and other.
After learning the above things, then you can jump easily onto Spring Boot. However, if you jump directly to Spring Boot you will see there are many such things which are not described in the Spring Boot tutorials, since many of them expect that you have some prior knowledge of Spring.
Right now, I have been facing so much issue running some parts of the Spring Framework, like I have no problems running my Appengine web app with Spring MVC however have so many issues running Spring Data on top of Appengine.
I wan't to know which part of the framework have been tested to work with Appengine (AE)?
Does Spring Security work with AE?
Does Spring Data work with AE?
I'm guessing that there is no planned support for these frameworks at all for AE. However, hopefully I'm wrong.
I would suggest looking here: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/WillItPlayInJava
Spring Security is listed as SEMI-COMPATIBLE.
As for Spring Security, it works great. You'll just have to enable sessions. And if you want to apply the SPring filter on static files, make sure to exclude them from the static resources in appengine-web.xml.
As for Spring Data, I've never tried it but you might be able to use the JPA and REST sub-projects at least.