/spring-petclinic

A sample Spring-based application

Primary LanguageJava

Spring PetClinic Sample Application Build Status

Understanding the Spring Petclinic application with a few diagrams

See the presentation here

Running petclinic locally

	git clone https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-petclinic.git
	cd spring-petclinic
	./mvnw tomcat7:run

You can then access petclinic here: http://localhost:9966/petclinic/

In case you find a bug/suggested improvement for Spring Petclinic

Our issue tracker is available here: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-petclinic/issues

Database configuration

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

Working with Petclinic in Eclipse/STS

prerequisites

The following items should be installed in your system:

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/

Steps:

  1. In the command line
git clone https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-petclinic.git
  1. Inside Eclipse
File -> Import -> Maven -> Existing Maven project

Looking for something in particular?

Java Config
Java Config branch Petclinic uses XML configuration by default. In case you'd like to use Java Config instead, there is a Java Config branch available here. Thanks to Antoine Rey for his contribution.
Inside the 'Web' layerFiles
Spring MVC - XML integration mvc-view-config.xml
Spring MVC - ContentNegotiatingViewResolver mvc-view-config.xml
JSP custom tags WEB-INF/tags createOrUpdateOwnerForm.jsp
Bower bower-install maven profile declaration inside pom.xml
JavaScript libraries are defined by the manifest file bower.json
Bower configuration using JSON
Resource mapping in Spring configuration
sample usage in JSP
Dandelion-datatables ownersList.jsp vetList.jsp PetclinicInitializer.java datatables.properties
Thymeleaf branch See here
Branch using GemFire and Spring Data GemFire instead of ehcache (thanks Bijoy Choudhury) See here
'Service' and 'Repository' layersFiles
Transactions business-config.xml ClinicServiceImpl.java
Cache tools-config.xml ClinicServiceImpl.java
Bean Profiles business-config.xml ClinicServiceJdbcTests.java PetclinicInitializer.java
JdbcTemplate business-config.xml jdbc folder
JPA business-config.xml jpa folder
Spring Data JPA business-config.xml springdatajpa folder
OthersFiles
Spring Boot branch See here
Gradle branch See here

Interaction with other open source projects

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
Spring JDBC: simplify usage of NamedParameterJdbcTemplate SPR-10256 and SPR-10257
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
Eclipse: validation bug when working with .tag/.tagx files (has only been fixed for Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler)). See here for more details. STS-3294

Contributing

The issue tracker is the preferred channel for bug reports, features requests and submitting pull requests.

For pull requests, editor preferences are available in the editor config for easy use in common text editors. Read more and download plugins at http://editorconfig.org.