Hacking with Spring Boot

Using JDK 20+ and Maven 3.9.x, the Spring Boot starters to show off a few features for a series of articles.

This project will be added to over time as additional demos are created.

Demonstrations

Using Spring Shell

Running the ./run-with-spring-shell.sh script will launch the Spring Boot application and then begin a Spring Shell session. Commands are defined in the ...shellui package. The commands let the user interact with a Redis server.

Using JShell with Spring Boot

Running the ./jshell.sh script builds the project and then launches JShell, booting the Spring container and exposing it as context in the shell itself. Any Spring component can then be accessed via getBean on the context object and called.

API Choices

Spring Boot BOM
Spring boot maven plugin
Testcontainers
JUnit Jupiter
Spring boot logging starter -> SLF4J (use log4j2 if so inclined for performance and adaptability, see this article.
Spring redis starter
- Lettuce
- Jedis
Spring WebFlux starter

Build

Standard Maven build. use Maven 3.9.x.

Run all unit tests with mvn test
Run all integration / spring tests with mvn verify
Build and run with mvn spring-boot:run
Build executable war to run with java -jar using mvn package
Build docker image with mvn spring-boot:build-image

Tasks (not complete)

Do we need both the parent AND Spring BOM?