This microservices branch was initially derived from AngularJS version to demonstrate how to split sample Spring application into microservices. To achieve that goal we used Spring Cloud Netflix technology stack.
Every microservice is a Spring Boot application and can be started locally using IDE or mvn spring-boot:run command. Please note that supporting services (Config and Discovery Server) must be started before any other application (Customers, Vets, Visits and API). Tracing server startup is optional.
If everything goes well, you can access the following services at given location:
- Discovery Server - http://localhost:8761
- Config Server - http://localhost:8888
- AngularJS frontend (API Gateway) - http://localhost:8080
- Customers, Vets and Visits Services - random port, check Eureka Dashboard
- Tracing Server (Zipkin) - http://localhost:9411
You can then access petclinic here: http://localhost:8080/
Our issue tracker is available here: https://github.com/spring-petclinic/spring-petclinic-microservices/issues
In its default configuration, Petclinic uses an in-memory database (HSQLDB) which gets populated at startup with data. A similar setup is provided for MySql in case a persistent database configuration is needed. Note that whenever the database type is changed, the data-access.properties file needs to be updated and the mysql-connector-java artifact from the pom.xml needs to be uncommented.
You may start a MySql database with docker:
docker run -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=petclinic -e MYSQL_DATABASE=petclinic -p 3306:3306 mysql:5.7.8
The following items should be installed in your system:
- Maven 3 (http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/installation.html)
- git command line tool (https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git)
- Eclipse with the m2e plugin (m2e is installed by default when using the STS (http://www.springsource.org/sts) distribution of Eclipse)
Note: when m2e is available, there is an m2 icon in Help -> About dialog. If m2e is not there, just follow the install process here: http://eclipse.org/m2e/download/
- In the command line
git clone https://github.com/spring-petclinic/spring-petclinic-microservices.git
- Inside Eclipse
File -> Import -> Maven -> Existing Maven project
[TBD]
Compared to the standard Petclinic based on JSP pages,
this SpringBoot AngularJS Petclinic is splitted in 2 modules - a client module and a server module:
- springboot-petclinic-client : static resources (images, fonts, style, angular JS code) packaged as a webjar.
springboot-petclinic-server : Spring MVC REST API and an index.html template
| Spring Cloud components | |
|---|---|
| Configuration server | Config server properties, Configuration repository |
| Service discovery | Eureka server, Service discovery client |
| API gateway | Zuul reverse proxy, Routing configuration |
| Circuit breaker | TBD |
| Graphite monitoring | TBD |
One of the best parts about working on the Spring Petclinic application is that we have the opportunity to work in direct contact with many Open Source projects. We found some bugs/suggested improvements on various topics such as Spring, Spring Data, Bean Validation and even Eclipse! In many cases, they've been fixed/implemented in just a few days. Here is a list of them:
| Name | Issue |
|---|---|
| Bean Validation / Hibernate Validator: simplify Maven dependencies and backward compatibility | HV-790 and HV-792 |
| Spring Data: provide more flexibility when working with JPQL queries | DATAJPA-292 |
The issue tracker is the preferred channel for bug reports, features requests and submitting pull requests.
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