I am trying to split Jhipster generated project into multi module project.
I want to separate Presentation layer with angularJs into separate module.
How could I do that?
However, with a little effort you can separate the deployment of frontend and backend. i.e. use nginx for the frontend contents (configured to proxy the requests to the backend) and use tomcat for the backend.
i.e. change the dist directory and then do "grunt build". A few things will be missing (init, bower_components and i18n). aka, editing a bit the Gruntfile.js will be required in order to fix it.
JHipster is not meant to be a "multi-module" project.
Of course you can do it if you want to re-code everything, but that would be really complicated.
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I'm using Intellij IDE Ultimate and I create a Project with spring inicializer. The problem is... now I need create more microservices (Spring Boot) but idk how to do this in IDE. I the end I need 3 microservices. Have a terminal command to create a new microservice inside my project? Or a way in the IDE to do this.
What you need to do is creating several modules (normally Maven modules), each of them is a SpringBoot application with its own application context and its own configuration, directories structure, etc.
IntelliJ has a concept of Module which matches very well the Maven module concept.
If you go to File, Project Structure, Project Settings, Modules you can see a very nice view of the current modules (in your case it should be only one). You can add or remove modules there. (Also by just clicking File-New Module, but the Project Structure View is more useful).
If you decide going the Maven way, you can also create your structure in disk and its POMs and import maven project in IntelliJ.
In any case, keep in mind that you will like to deploy every microservice as a separate and autonomous deployable unit.
I´m currently building a spring-boot application, which also uses some javascript-stuff. I use yarn as a package-manager to manage the different js-libraries.
Now I wonder, how I would include these resources into my spring-boot-project? Simply including the whole node_module-folder as a resource seems to be overhead for me, as this doesn´t neccessarily contain only the required sources (for me it is more like my local maven-repo-path). How do I identify, which java-script-resources should be included in my jar in the end, so that I can also reference them in my Thymeleaf-HTML-templates.
I already found the 'frontend-maven-plugin' (https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin) which helps me to install all my yarn-dependencies during build, but it doesn´t care about the build-process, as far as I can see.
Thanks for your help!
Perhaps you should consider using webpack or some other javascript bundler/task runner to bundle your javascript and required dependencies into a single file. Then you can simply include that bundled file in your jar. For example: http://justincalleja.com/2016/04/17/serving-a-webpack-bundle-in-spring-boot/
I am having three modules in my Maven project:
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rest-api # Spring REST API
web-client # AngularJS web client
application # Project to bundle it all up for a standalone
I am not sure if I have here an "elegant" solution so please hit me with a stick if that is complete garbage, but this is how it works - or how it's supposed to work:
rest-api
Module rest-api does simply offer the REST API and other core functionality - basically it is pure server code. It is a jar artifact.
web-client
To separate client and server code I am having the module web-client. It is a war project that hold the client webapp.
application
This module is supposed to glue it all up. It depends on rest-api and web-client. It does two important things:
It's pom.xml uses the spring-boot-maven-plugin to build a standalone runnable jar - my ultimate goal
It provides the main(String args[]) method that starts the #SpringBootApplication with SpringApplication.run(EasyModelAccessServer.class, args);
What I am currently able to is tell Eclipse to run this in a servlet container. The server boots up and I my two resources, the rest-api and the web-client working. Everything is fine so far.
The issue
What is not fully working is the standalone. If I package up the whole thing and run the server:
$ path/to/application: mvn clean package
$ path/to/application: java -jar target/application.jar
Only the REST API will work. The reason is because the web-client is not added or introduced as a web app to the Spring built-in Tomcat.
The question
is how I can make this work. There are two options which come to my mind:
Somehow sneak in the web-client.war file into the application.jar such that it is available as a resource and programmatically call tomcat.addWebapp("/web-client", "path/to/web-client.war") (or something like that) to load the additional service
Hope that the spring-boot-maven-plugin or another Spring Maven plug-in can do that for me and find somebody that links me to an example.
I've tried it with 1. but I didn't succeed to move web-client.war into application.jar but I am also not sure if I should actually do that.
FAQ
Q: "Why do you separate everything instead of merge all those modules into a server module where the Spring Maven plug-in would do everything for you out of the box?"
A: I really want to separate the client code from the server code. I could however merge web-client into application but last time I tried that I had 10 other issues why this did not work out so I decided to keep it that way and that it actually shouldn't be so hard to load an additional server resource.
Q: "Can I take a look at the project?"
A: Yes, you can. Just take a look: https://github.com/silentsnooc/easy-model-access Please forgive me that I am currently using tabs instead of whitespaces - I am going to change that as soon as I got everything up and running.
I'm building "read-only" webservice (Google Cloud Endpoints as backend for an Android App) so I created a project using maven:
mvn archetype:generate -Dappengine-version=1.9.10 -Dfilter=com.google.appengine.archetypes:
and selecting archetype hello-endpoints-archetype to have some sample code to work on.
This works well and my app is correctly calling the service as expected (and the service is correctly supplying the data in return).
Now I have to implement an "update" service to periodically (4 to 6 times a dya) update the data supplied to the app. So I added a servlet to my project to be called by cron. Trouble is: one of the library used during this update uses multi-threads which cause an AccessControlException to be thrown because apparently multi-thread is only allowed in backend modules...
But after having read dozens of pages on google app engine, I still don't know how to "break" my application into modules so that particular servlet would be run as a backend module while the already existing servlet keep working as they do. So far, all I got was that I should use an EAR application composed of several WAR modules, but I don't even know if my current application is an EAR or not...
I'm using Eclipse Luna, maven 3.2.1 (embeded with Eclipse), google app engine 1.9.10, writing in Java
Could anyone please help me by explaining the directory structure and/or configuration files I have to look at, modify and/or add?
Thanks for any help provided!
You can find an example of multi-modules project here.
However, note that even in backend modules the threading is limited to 50 threads, as stated here.
I'm building web applications using Spring (scaffolded with ROO) and Velocity for the template engine.
Those applications are very similar in their flow, most of the time the logic doesn't change very much, so I can use the same controllers across multiple webapps. What needs customization is the UI side.
I want to build a flexible system that allows :
To work locally while developing
To package templates outside of the webapp
To change some templates without redeploying the webapp.
So far I have built something which uses the WebappResourceLoader and the URLResourceLoader :
resource.loader=url,webapp
webapp.resource.loader.class=org.apache.velocity.tools.view.WebappResourceLoader
webapp.resource.loader.path=/WEB-INF/views/
webapp.resource.loader.cache=true
webapp.resource.loader.modificationCheckInterval=1
url.resource.loader.class=org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.URLResourceLoader
url.resource.loader.root=http://localhost/templates/
url.resource.loader.cache=false
So basically, the "default" templates are located inside the webapp, and can be overridden by templates located somewhere accessible by URL (right now in a simple folder in Apache).
In the end, the templates for each "skin" should be packaged in a separate WAR.
Now I don't know how to be able to work locally with this architecture...
Most of the time, I'll be working on customizing the templates code, so I suppose I could have a WAR project with only templates, and use Maven's WAR Overlay to bring them to life.
But in this case, the templates are inside the WAR, and this is not what I want...
Any ideas ?