I want to use spring's dependency injection for now(other core functionalites later maybe) in tomcat application.
I want to set up spring 2.5.5 in tomcat7, But don't have clarity on how to do this.
Specifically I am confused because I don't know whether to use Spring MVC or use just spring in tomcat.
I found this question helpful: Tomcat with Spring, But still didn't get the whole scenario on how to setup tomcat with spring.
You can do either, using just core spring with tomcat is fine. MVC provides additional functionality.
Take a look at the spring source examples on github, and read their docs.
(BTW I thouroughy spring-MVC component - it really saves time developing webapps)
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I've started learning Spring Boot coming from a NodeJS/Express background and I'm wondering what's the difference between the server that we create ourselves in an express app that listens on a certain port, and the Tomcat server in a spring application also called a container ? Why can't we do the same in a spring boot application where we create the server ourselves ?
const app = express();
app.listen(3000, () => console.log("Server listening on port 3000"));
Welcome to the Spring Ecosystem. We hope you enjoy your stay!
My first bit of advice, forget everything you know about Express because Spring is very different. I have not used Express in a while, but I remember it had a very programmatic approach. While that is possible in Spring, the most popular approach is declarative with annotations. Or, if you are old and like old technology, you can configure everything with XML.
What's Tomcat? Tomcat is a implementation of various Jakarta EE (formally Java EE) specifications. Depending on the Spring Boot version, you may see packages that start with jakarta or javax. Tomcat implements, Jakarta Servlet, Server Pages, Expression Language, WebSocket, Annotations, and Authentications. You can read more about each specification here. Note: Spring Boot by itself does not necessary use all of these modules and mostly Spring has many abstraction layers on top of them anyway, so you rarely will work with Tomcat directly. Specifically, spring-boot-starter-tomcat is the Spring module that uses Tomcat, and is most often included as a transitive dependency through spring-boot-starter-web.
Now, to answer your question...
Spring Boot Web configures Tomcat for you. You can definitely override this behavior! One basic way is through configuration properties. Anything under server.tomcat. A good IDE should autocomplete and show you the options. You can also change the address and port of the Tomcat server with server.address and server.port. Another popular property developers change is server.error.whitelabel.enabled. They set it to false and provide their own error page. Here is a great example. By the way, Baeldung offers a lot of free Spring tutorials and guides. It is a great place to get started. They also offer paid courses with certifications.
FYI, you do not have to use Tomcat. Read more here.
we have old tomcat application in our project. I like to change it to spring boot for easing my development. but I don't know the way. Will someone helps me out, how to do that
Actually they are two different things.
You can have a Tomcat server with Spring Boot framework.
If you want to get this server setted with Spring Boot, just get a look in this link:
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-configure-tomcat
I want to create a REST web service using Jersey. I also want to use Spring in the project. Now, my questions is the following:
I don't see any reason for integrating these 2 together in my application. So, I should be able to use Spring for bean management and Jersey for creating the web service. Am I correct, or Spring and Jersey somehow have to be integrated.
I see that there is a jersey-spring maven project, and so, I assume that this is for the purpose of integrating jersey and spring together. My question here is do I get any benefit of using this integrated form rather than simply use Jersey and Spring separately each for its own functionality?
Thanks,
Cyrus
You can absolutely combine the two projects. However, I would encourage you to look at Spring-MVC for doing REST as it is very powerful and easy to use. If memory serves, the jersey-spring project was helpful in integration of JAXB and other touch points. Again, this is all built into Spring. And if you use Spring-Boot it is amazingly simple to get running.
The jersey-spring project provides integration between Jersey and Spring. It allows you to wire in any beans in your Spring context into Jersey and vice-versa.
For instance, if you are using spring-security, it will provide your spring-security principal when wiring the Jersey specific SecurityContext into any of your REST resources.
If you want to access Spring beans from your Jersey REST endpoints (or use Spring Beans as implementations for your JAX-RS interfaces) you need to integrate Spring and Jersey, otherwise it won't work. If you don't have any connections between Spring beans and your REST endpoints, then it is not necessary.
I think your first statement is correct. I have used Jersey and Sprint as separate entities.
Jersey is really awesome to create a web server.
Spring is useful for dependency injection (beans) and other cools stuff.
About your second statement, I do not know anything jersey-spring maven project.
My suggestion/opinion is to do as your first comment. Use them in a separate way. You will have the best of both worlds. Using jersey-spring maven project might be a complication and maybe it is not what you want. Libraries usually are intend to be independent.
I would like to create a Spring Boot application to be deployed on Google AppEngine infrastructure. GAE currently only supports servlet 2.5 web applications.
Is it possible to use Spring Boot - using auto-configuration - in combination with a old-fashioned web.xml?
Can I for example use a contextClass/contextConfigLocation pointing to a #Configration class including #EnableAutoConfiguration?
All Spring Boot examples seem to use a simple Application class with main method to run the application. So I would like to know if Spring Boot supports using a web.xml as start point to boot the application?
More than one question there:
There's nothing stopping you from using web.xml (it's still part of the Servlet spec). Most people prefer the Java initializers these days.
#EnableAutoConfiguration works for any application context (it just uses features of Spring).
But Spring Boot out of the box doesn't have a ContextLoaderListener that knows about SpringApplication, so you miss some of the benefits of Boot if you do as you describe. There's one you might find useful here.
Spring Boot Actuator relies on a few Servlet 3.0 features here and there so you need workarounds for a 2.5 environment (see this spring-boot-legacy prototype for details).
There's a sample app here that runs on GAE, currently deployed here: http://dsyerboot.appspot.com/.
I try to use Spring to develop liferay portlets (version 6.0.6), could i use models and services generated by ServiceBuilder as spring bean?
I tried to import generated spring context in my own, but i got many errors in tomcat log. Maybe the best way is creation of own layer model and services using hibernate for example?
I would recommend that you go ahead and create your own service and persistence classes. Those have nothing to do with UI, so you can use them whether you plunge ahead with portal or not.
If you're using Spring already, and you're planning to move on to portal, you should be thinking about Spring portal. Now it's just the same as Spring web MVC, just with different controllers.