Getting Started With Microservices: An Example Application
Getting Started With Microservices: An Example Application
Learn how to achieve scalability, high availability, and resilience by creating a microservice architecture in an application with the Vaadin framework.
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In my previous article about Microservices and User Interfaces, I discussed strategies for developing Vaadin-based applications in microservices architectures. In this article, I’ll show you an example application developed with a microservices architecture using Spring Boot and Vaadin Framework. The following is a screenshot of the application:
The left side is a completely separate and independent Vaadin application. The same is true for the right side of the page.
Downloading and Running the Application
Download the code from GitHub or from the command line with Git:
git clone https://github.com/alejandro-du/vaadin-microservices-demo.gitCompile the project using Maven:
cd vaadin-microservices-demo
mvn packageStart the discovery server:
cd vaadin-microservices/discovery-server
java -jar target/discovery-server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jarStart the configuration server:
cd vaadin-microservices/config-server
java -jar target/config-server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jarRun the microservices serving the actual functionality of the application:
cd vaadin-microservices/biz-application
java -Dserver.port=9601 -jar target/biz-application-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
cd vaadin-microservices/admin-application
java -Dserver.port=9401 -jar target/admin-application-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
cd vaadin-microservices/news-application
java -Dserver.port=9201 -jar target/news-application-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
cd vaadin-microservices/website-application
java -Dserver.port=9001 -jar target/website-application-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jarAnd finally, start the proxy server:
cd vaadin-microservices-demo/proxy-server
java -jar target/proxy-server-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jarNow you can request the proxy server at http://localhost:8080 and start using the application. Keep in mind that for simplicity, this demo doesn’t use any event bus communication and push features to update the tweets shown on the left. You have to reload the page to see the new data after using the CRUD web interface on the left of the page.
Scalability, High Availability, and Resilience
In order to scale parts of the system, you can simply start additional instances. For example, you can run more instances of the admin-application (the one shown on the left side in the browser):
cd vaadin-microservices-demo/admin-application
java -Dserver.port=9401 -jar target/admin-application-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jarTry stopping all instances of the biz-application and see what happens in the browser. The web applications should show error messages, when appropriate, without blocking the use of other parts of them. The news-application (the one on the right side in the browser) shows a predefined set of companies when the biz-application is not up.
You can find a more detailed tutorial at vaadin.com.
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