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Managing Spring Boot Application

Jakub Kubrynski user avatar by
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May. 08, 14 · DevOps Zone · Interview
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Spring Boot is a brand new application framework from Spring. It allows fabulously quick development and rapid prototyping (even including CLI). One of its main features is to work from single "uber jar" file. By "uber jar" I mean that all dependencies, even an application server like Tomcat or Jetty are packed into a single file. In that we can start web application by typing 
java -jar application.jar
The only thing we're missing is the managing script. And now I want to dive into that topic.

Of course to do anything more than starting our application we need to know its PID. Spring Boot has a solution named ApplicationPidListener. To use it we need to tell SpringApplication we want to include this listener. And there are to ways to achieve that.


Easiest way it to create file META-INF/spring.factories containing lines:
org.springframework.context.ApplicationListener=\
org.springframework.boot.actuate.system.ApplicationPidListener

Second way allows us to customize listener by specifying own name or location for PID file.
public class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication springApplication =
new SpringApplication(Application.class);
springApplication.addListeners(
new ApplicationPidListener("app.pid"));
springApplication.run(args);
}
}

Now, when we already have our PID file we need bash script providing standard operations like stop, start, restart and status checking. Below you can find simple script solving that challenge. Of course remember to customize highlighted lines :)
#!/bin/sh
JARFile="application.jar"
PIDFile="application.pid"
SPRING_OPTS="-DLOG_FILE=application.log"
function check_if_pid_file_exists {
if [ ! -f $PIDFile ]
then
echo "PID file not found: $PIDFile"
exit 1
fi
}
function check_if_process_is_running {
if ps -p $(print_process) > /dev/null
then
return 0
else
return 1
fi
}
function print_process {
echo $(<"$PIDFile")
}
case "$1" in
status)
check_if_pid_file_exists
if check_if_process_is_running
then
echo $(print_process)" is running"
else
echo "Process not running: $(print_process)"
fi
;;
stop)
check_if_pid_file_exists
if ! check_if_process_is_running
then
echo "Process $(print_process) already stopped"
exit 0
fi
kill -TERM $(print_process)
echo -ne "Waiting for process to stop"
NOT_KILLED=1
for i in {1..20}; do
if check_if_process_is_running
then
echo -ne "."
sleep 1
else
NOT_KILLED=0
fi
done
echo
if [ $NOT_KILLED = 1 ]
then
echo "Cannot kill process $(print_process)"
exit 1
fi
echo "Process stopped"
;;
start)
if [ -f $PIDFile ] && check_if_process_is_running
then
echo "Process $(print_process) already running"
exit 1
fi
nohup java $SPRING_OPTS -jar $JARFile &
echo "Process started"
;;
restart)
$0 stop
if [ $? = 1 ]
then
exit 1
fi
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
I'm sure that there are a lot of possibilities to tune that script, so comments are welcomed :)
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