The world of (XPages) developer is moving fast. Customers rethinking platforms and solutions. Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". In combination with Thymeleaf can it be good alternative for your XPages applications.
In this session I give an introduction of Spring Boot and Thymeleaf and how to get started. I will show the differences and similarities between Spring Boot in combination with Thymeleaf and XPages.
I will explain the challenges I faced when moving an application.
5. How to proceed
• What is Spring boot and Thymeleaf
• Similarities and differences
• Runs everywhere
• How to start
• Syntax
• Security
• New possibilities
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8. Spring boot
• Open source, Pivotal is coordinating.
• Spring boot creates Spring (Java) based applications
• Embedded Tomcat makes it ‘just’ run everywhere
• Auto configure as much as possible
• Built in metrics and health checks
• Easy to configure with YAML or property file
• Very good documentation and code examples
• Fast creation of REST api’s
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9. Thymeleaf
• Is a template engine
• Based on Java and HTML5
• Very strict, or template will break
• Full Spring framework support
• Extensible with dialects
• Full (and extensible) internationalisation support.
• Reusable fragments, like of Custom Controls
• Extensive documentation
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XPages Spring Boot/Thymeleaf
Configure Faces-config @Autowired
Endpoints Need work or SmartNSF very strong support
Security Built-in Need Spring Security
Add-ons
Lots of 3rd party add-on
Thanks to OpenNTF
Lots of 3rd party add-on
Deployment Runs on Domino Runs everwhere
Build Pain of the Domino Designer Maven/Gradle build out-of-the box
IDE
DDE (Windows)
for OSGi plugins almost every IDE
Almost every IDE, like Netbeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ and more
(Windows, Linux, MacOS)
13. Runs everywhere
• With Embedded Tomcat as default the jar ‘just run’
• More choices of embedded web server, in the future also OpenLiberty
• Will run on Docker
• Will run on Cloud Foundry, like IBM Cloud or Pivotal on Azure
• Tomcat can by excluding to run it on Websphere Application Server,
Tomcat or WildFly (a.k.a JBoss)
• Even on Domino as OSGi plugin, http://hasselba.ch/blog/?p=2589
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15. How to start
• Install Gradle or Maven
• Move over to start.spring.io
• Or use the Starter in IntelliJ
• Fill all the fields and select the required projects (full version)
• Generate project
• Download zip, unzip and add to Git repository.
• Open project in favourite IDE, run ‘mvn clean install’
• Start coding
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22. Component scan
• Component scan will scan all the packages for @Service,
@Controller, @Repository and more @Component(s)
• @Autowired will glue everything together
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23. Thymeleaf syntax
• Include the th namespace to the page
• Every html element attribute has a th:…. Equivalent.
• Variable Expressions: ${...}
• Selection Variable Expressions: *{...}
• Message Expressions: #{...}
• Link URL Expressions: @{...}
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33. Attachments
• Forget the UploadedFile provided by IBM, learn MultipartFile
• MultipartFile has lots of similarities with UploadedFile, but easier to
use. Less code to achieve the same
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35. Spring Security
• Framework for Authentication and Authorisation
• Prevention of clickjacking, CORS, cross site request forgery
• Integrates with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf
• Customisable to the bone
• Support for Basic Authentication, SAML2, oAuth and more.
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39. Lombok
• Forget Getters and Setters
• Forget toString, hashCode and equals
• One @Annotations rules the all (@Data or @Getter and @Setter)
• Add logging by @annotations (@Log4j2 or @Slf4j)
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41. Swagger
• Part of Open API Specification, since v3
• Documentation of API’s
• Playground for testing
• Add annotation to generate the documentation dynamically
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43. Jenkins
• With Jenkins you can build automatically the application
• …But also do quality control, do load tests and even deploy.
• JenkinsFile should be in the root of the GIT Repository
• Groovy is the language for JenkinsFile
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