I have come across couple of discussions here about Spring Boot setup for Struts application but did not get a valid yes or no.
I know we can migrate the struts to spring and then use it with Spring boot but considering the timelines and application complexity we need to just migrate from Legacy Websphere to Spring boot for the Struts application.
Can we integrate spring boot with a legacy Struts 1.x application ?
P.S:
So far I am able to start up tomcat for spring boot successfully for my war but I do get 404 on browser so need to understand what would be the flow after the request flow to Main class.
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I have a Spring 5 MVC application without Spring Boot that I need to migrate it's current Spring Security LDAP implementatino to a new Spring Security OAuth2 Resource Server implementation. I tried for several days without any luck to convert this application to Spring Boot and I am hoping I can do this migration without Spring Boot, the problem is that all the resources I found so far (examples,guides,etc.) only work with Spring Boot.
Any help is greatly appreciate it.
I'm in the process of migrating away from the spring-security-saml module that has been deprecated to the new SAML support built into Spring Security 5+. I'd really like to not have to migrate this entire project from Spring Framework to String Boot at this time, so does anyone know if there is documentation on how to get Spring Security with SAML working on vanilla Spring Framework, everything I've seen has been only Spring Boot. Any help would be majestic!
I got below instruction from spring boot doc:
Adding both spring-boot-starter-web and spring-boot-starter-webflux modules in your application results in Spring Boot auto-configuring Spring MVC, not WebFlux. This behavior has been chosen because many Spring developers add spring-boot-starter-webflux to their Spring MVC application to use the reactive WebClient. You can still enforce your choice by setting the chosen application type to SpringApplication.setWebApplicationType(WebApplicationType.REACTIVE)
My question is:
What if my application contains both MVC services and webflux services?
Is it supported?
For example:
I may have some existing admin service which is MVC based. Now I want to add some new services with webflux style.
No, this is not supported. Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux have different runtime models and don't support the same servers (for example, Spring WebFlux can be run with Netty, Spring MVC cannot).
Also, Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux are full web frameworks, meaning each has its own infrastructure that somehow duplicates the other. Deploying both in the same app would make it difficult to map requests (which requests should go where?).
I have a Spring web application - which doesn't use Spring-based GUI, but Wicket - and I would like to build contract-first REST services.
I already have a contract defined in Swagger and I generate model and API artifacts. Swagger codegen generates either Spring Boot artifacts, or Spring MVC ones.
My intention is to use ideally just a model, and maybe API (controllers) from this generated code. But up to my knowledge/research, there is no simple way to have just simple REST service without MVC/Boot boilerplate.
Therefore my questions are:
Is it possible to build lightweight Spring-based REST service, without having "heavy" dependency of full Spring MVC/Spring Boot?
If not, which approach is more lightweight? Spring Boot, or Spring MVC?
You are misinterpreting the Spring ecosystem.
Spring MVC is THE rest web and web service library within Spring portfolio.
The same way as Spring-WS is THE soap web service library.
They are very similar in architecture and style of use.
The fact that Spring MVC is bundled with Spring Framework does not change the situation.
Spring Boot does not bring any new REST offering. It is just a bootstrap mechanism to start Java web server with web app already deployed from a plain main() method. Therefore if you see "Building REST web services with Spring Boot", it just means that it is Spring MVC bootstrapped by Spring Boot.
Therefore, the question to what is more lightweight is straightforward: Spring MVC.
To answer the question #2:
The usage of Spring MVC is more lighweight, then usage of Spring Boot:
Size of the WAR archive:
6,1 MB for Spring MVC
9,2 MB for Spring Boot
Number of libraries in WAR archive:
12 for Spring MVC
28 for Spring Boot
I am using spring-boot to develop webservices, but I don't want to use WsConfigurerAdapter to define a WSDL and all, because I want to deploy my war into WAS7 and it does not support Servlet 3.0. So how would I add a web.xml configuration into my application.
Spring Boot doesn't support Servlet 2.5 out of the box, however you can use Spring Boot Legacy to get things working. Take a look at the Google App Engine sample application for an example of how to use Spring Boot Legacy and web.xml.
You may also be interested in this Spring Boot issue which is proposing to make Spring Boot Legacy an official part of Spring Boot.