Spring Boot Web App Template

This is a web application template. Use it to start creating your new project.

Run the template

1. Download the Spring Boot Web App Template project
2. Start the application:
   • ./gradlew bootRun
3. Edit the source code and trigger a quick restart with CTRL + F9 on IntelliJ IDEA
4. Health service is available at:
   • http://localhost:8080/actuator
5. Restart the application to reload configuration:
   • curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/actuator/restart
6. The API documentation is available at:
   • http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/index.html
7. Service monitoring is available at:
   • http://localhost:8080/monitoring
8. You can test the demo service:
   • http://localhost:8080/api/v1/message/42

Create a new app

To create a new app from this template:

1. Find/replace the string springapp in all project files with a name of your choice
2. Rename the springapp package with a name of your choice

Create an executable .jar

1. Run ./gradlew bootJar
2. The application executable file will be generated under the /biuld/libs directory
3. Run the application with java -jar springapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Create distributions packages .zip

1. Run ./gradlew assembleDist
2. The application package will be generated under the /biuld/distributions directory
3. Edit build.gradle to set up different distributions for different environments

Documentation

The project documentation is under the /src/docs directory.

1. Run ./gradlew asciidoctor
2. The html documentation will be generated under the /docs directory

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