The question regards an endpoint that I want to make available only for demoing and should not be part of the project in production. Therefore I need to find a way of making the piece of code that reveals this endpoint available only when it should be.
I thought of using a different .properties file when it is needed, but this requires creating another one and changing the configuration and if there is a more simple way I would like to know.
Maybe building with a different Maven profile? Can I use the Maven profile name inside the code?
I'm currently developing a webapp in spring boot with thymeleaf as templating engine. Im coming from the PHP/NodeJS(SailsJS)-World so iteratively designing html pages with css was never a problem. I could make some minor changes in the html/css code, go back to the browser and hit refresh to see the change.
I do this a lot in PHP/NodeJS. It's countless forward and backward until I get the design I was shooting for.
Now I want to do this in SpringBoot but whenever I change the HTML/CSS code (static or template) an refresh in the browser, there is no change. I have to restart the application to see the change and that needs at last 4 seconds and up to 14 seconds in some situations. That's completely unacceptable as I have to go back and forth so often that this would massively decrease my productivity but I wanted to use SpringBoot in the first place to increase my productivty.
I googled a bit and some people seem to advise the "Spring Devtools". I included this dependency but still no change. Even if it would work, it would just auto-restart the app which doesn't solve my problem. There must be a way to tell Spring not to cache my static and dynamic html content but to deploy/process them directly from their place within the project. I mean in other Frameworks like PHP-Zend or NodeJS-SailsJS this is the absolute standard.
In PHP-Zend for example there is a cache but it is disabled by default and should only be enabled for production environments by the developer. Is there a way to let Spring behave in similar manners?
And if not, how do Spring developers design their html/css efficiently?
Thanks in advance
Be warned! The following solution is something you only want in your LOCAL application.properties. You do not want to add these lines to your QA, PROD, ... application.properties files.
In your LOCAL application.properties you need to add the following 3 lines
spring.thymeleaf.cache=false
spring.thymeleaf.prefix=file:./src/main/resources/templates/
spring.resources.static-locations=file:./src/main/resources/static/
You will obviously need to adjust the paths to your folder structure and restart the server.
I saw here some questions with the same topic as mine, but they are quite old. Is there maybe nowadays a working solution? Something that makes an automatic merge of the two hooks and wont destroy the default jsp?
For people who dont know what my problem is. When you deploy two hooks on the same .jsp file, the original jsp is being deleted. And im looking for a solution which makes an merge of the two hooks and the original wont be deleted.
Thanks
There's no concept of automatically merging two different JSPs - it would only work in few cases and leave others open to the same problem.
The code that Pankajkumar Kathiriya links in the comment (my blog article) solves this problem by denying the deployment of the second hook. You'll then have to merge/resolve the conflict yourself.
Some version of Liferay (maybe the latest 6.2 CE GA) implements it as well - the blog article links to the issue. Note that Liferay's own implementation doesn't give you the full logging information that my implementation gives you, but it works. There's also an extension that also includes duplicate overridden struts actions.
I have a third party application which has lot of servlets and jsp. I wanted to debug that by putting breakpoints on my local jboss server. How do I know that, for a particular request, the request is being processed by particular java classes and jsp, so that I can put breakpoints in the right files? I am thinking of going through the code, before setting the breakpoints, to know where to put them. But I feel this is not an efficient way to do it (as it is a very big application). Can you please suggest if there is any better way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
The web.xml file contains servlet-mapping elements indicating which servlets are mapped to which URLs. So if you know the URL, you should easily find the corresponding servlet. Now you can read the servlet code to see which other classes are involved.
I think fastest way for debugging applications like this, is profiling application for specific usecase, in this way you can understand which classes used for this scenario and after finding classes, you can debug these classes.
for profiling application there are lots of tools.
commercial: Yourkit, JProfiler, JProbe
open source:VisualVM, Javacalltracer (create run-time sequence diagram)
I have a rather complex J2EE app I don't have any documentation for and I am trying to get it to run.
I have gotten the ant build script to compile a EAR file that contains a WAR file, but this application even though I get "successfully deployed" on weblogic console is still not working.
There are many required jars missing from the EAR file, hence I get errors about missing classes on the console log when I deploy the app. Sometimes even after I check a particular class is there I still get the error.
What is a best way to debug and get this application running?
Is there any shortcuts in J2EE/Java to "find all dependencies", apps anybody knows to analyze code and find dependencies or anything like that?
Is there any shortcuts in J2EE/Java to "find all dependencies", apps anybody knows to analyze code and find dependencies or anything like that?
Do you mean a compiler? I'm actually semi serious here (even if the compiler won't give you the name of a missing JAR). Indeed, if you are compiling that application successfully with Ant, then you likely have all dependencies required at compile time (you may need more of them at runtime but, well, you'll need to execute the code to identify them). Maybe you just need to add more of them in the EAR during the packaging. Or maybe you need to add more dependencies at the app server classpath level.
In both case, search engines like jarFinder.com or Docjar.com or Jarhoo.com might help you to identify missing JARs and to solve your ClassNotFoundException or NoClassDefFoundError.
You should actually give readers more details about the missing classes, I'm sure people will be able to give you some hints and point you in the right direction.
I know of no easy way to deal with this. If the application provides an ant task build the EAR then the result should be a self-contained deployable application EAR. It is possible that the EAR requires extra libraries to be added to some class path, without documentation it's really hard to know what.
This phrase is, I guess, at the heart of the problem: "Sometimes even after I check a particular class is there I still get the error." Exactly what do you mean?
You are getting a class not found error but you can see the class in the EAR file? If that's the case then things are really difficult, and may well be some kind of classloader issue. I don't know WebLogic at all, but in WebSphere when deploying an application you have a choice of whether to give precedence to JARs in the EAR or to the same JAR in WebSphere itself. Some Applications demand one or the other setting. If there's anything like that in WebLogic then this may be your problem.
Another possible problem is that the app may depend on infrastructure libraries (Eg. XML parsers) that are supplied by WebLogic, but expects a different version that is supplied with the WebLogic version you are using.
Without documentation that the app is supported on the version of WebLogic you are using, I fear you're fighting a long, hard (or even a losing) battle.
I'd assume you managed to get this application put together and compiled in an IDE, maybe Eclipse. Why not simply put all the Jars that you had available at build time, into the EAR?
If you're having to debug this by trial and error, you can look at the list of missing classes and figure out which jars they belong to by Googling for the class names, or maybe you can find them in your IDE too.
If you have a lot of trouble identifying some classes, post the class names (or the error messages) here and someone should be able to tell you where to find the Jar it belongs in.
If you are able to successfully build and deploy the app, but still getting the errors about missing classes, probably some of the jar classes are called through reflection. You may want to search for reflection API calls in the Project through your IDE.
These calls may be something like,
"Class cls = Class.forName(..); cls.newInstance()."
Sometimes even after I check a
particular class is there I still get
the error.
This may be a deployment issue. check the classpath. Some of the jars may be missing from the Classpath.
Is there any shortcuts in J2EE/Java to
"find all dependencies", apps anybody
knows to analyze code and find
dependencies or anything like that?
I'd start by having another go at getting documentation ... or help ... from the original developers, if you can find them. [IMO, people who develop / provide software without any documentation deserve to be bugged incessantly by people asking silly questions.] But I guess you've already tried that.
Then there are the jarfinder.com and other services as mentioned in another answer. (New to me!)
If that fails, I'd try doing a Google search on the FQNs. The chances are that if the missing classes are part of a commonly used library you will hit the Javadocs ... or a posting from someone else with a similar problem to yours.
If the "Google it" approach fails, use the clues in the package naming for the missing classes to try and find where they come from. If they follow the Sun recommendations, the names should map to a company or (real or pseudo-) organization that you can locate by a web search.