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Spring Boot Auto-Configuration for the Solace Java API
This project provides Spring Boot Auto-Configuration and an associated Spring Boot Starter for the Solace Java API. The goal of this project is to make it easy to auto wire the Solace Java API within your application so you can take advantage of all the benefits of Spring Boot auto-configuration.
Contents
- Overview
- Using Auto-Configuration in your App
- Building the Project Yourself
- Running the Sample
- Contributing
- Authors
- License
- Resources
Overview
As stated this project provides a Spring Boot Auto-Configuration implementation and a Spring Boot Starter pom for the Solace Java API. The goal of this project is to make it easier to use the Solace Java API with Spring Boot auto-configuration through the @Autowired annotation.
The artifacts are published to Maven Central so it should be familiar and intuitive to use this project in your applications.
One item to note as described below is that this project introduces a new factory for Solace Java API sessions: SpringJCSMPFactory. Overtime the Solace Java API may introduce a similar factory and remove the need for this custom extension. For now however, this is included in the auto-configuration jar for ease of use.
Using Auto-Configuration in your App
See the associated solace-java-sample-app for an example of how this is all put together in a simple application. You'll need to do three steps:
- Update your build.
- Autowire a
SpringJCSMPFactory. - Configure the application to use a Solace PubSub+ service.
Updating your build
The releases from this project are hosted in Maven Central
The easiest way to get started is to include the solace-java-spring-boot-starter in your application. For an examples see the Java Sample App in this project.
Here is how to include the latest spring boot starter in your project using Gradle and Maven. You can also add a specific version from Maven Central. Note that you'll neeed to include version 3.1.0 or later to use Spring Boot release 2.x.
Using it with Gradle
// Solace Java API & auto-configuration
compile("com.solace.spring.boot:solace-java-spring-boot-starter:3.2.1")
Using it with Maven
<!-- Solace Java API & auto-configuration-->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.solace.spring.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>solace-java-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1</version>
</dependency>
Using Spring Dependency Auto-Configuration (@SpringBootApplication & @Autowired)
Now in your application code, you can simply declare the SpringJCSMPFactory and annotate it so that it is autowired:
@Autowired
private SpringJCSMPFactory solaceFactory;
Once you have the SpringJCSMPFactory, it behaves just like the JCSMPFactory and can be used to create sessions. For example:
final JCSMPSession session = solaceFactory.createSession();
The SpringJCSMPFactory is a wrapper of the singleton JCSMPFactory which contains an associated JCSMPProperties. This facilitates auto-wiring by Spring but otherwise maintains the familiar JCSMPFactory interface known to users of the Solace Java API.
Alternatively, you could autowire one or more of the following to create your own customized SpringJCSMPFactory:
/* A factory for creating SpringJCSMPFactory. */
@Autowired
private SpringJCSMPFactoryCloudFactory springJcsmpFactoryCloudFactory;
/* A POJO describing the credentials for the first detected Solace PubSub+ service */
@Autowired
private SolaceServiceCredentials solaceServiceCredentials;
/* The properties of a JCSMP connection for the first detected Solace PubSub+ service */
@Autowired
private JCSMPProperties jcsmpProperties;
However note that the SolaceServiceCredentials will only provide meaningful information if the application is configured by exposure of a Solace PubSub+ service manifest, and not by using the application properties file.
Configure the Application to use your Solace PubSub+ Service Credentials
Deploying your Application to a Cloud Platform
By using Spring Cloud Connectors, this library can automatically configure a SpringJCSMPFactory using the detected Solace PubSub+ services when deployed on a Cloud Platform such as Cloud Foundry.
Currently, the Solace Cloud Foundry Cloud Connector is the only connector that is supported by default in this library, but could easily be augmented by adding your own Solace Spring Cloud Connectors as dependencies to the auto-configuration's POM.
For example:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.solace.cloud.cloudfoundry</groupId>
<artifactId>solace-spring-cloud-connector</artifactId>
<version>4.0.0</version>
</dependency>
Exposing a Solace PubSub+ Service Manifest in the Application's Environment
Configuration of the SpringJCSMPFactory can be done through exposing a Solace PubSub+ service manifest to the application's JVM properties or OS environment.
For example, you can set a SOLCAP_SERVICES variable in either your JVM properties or OS's environment to directly contain a VCAP_SERVICES-formatted manifest file. In which case, the autoconfigure will pick up any Solace PubSub+ services in it and use them to accordingly configure your SpringJCSMPFactory.
The properties provided by this externally-provided manifest can also be augmented using the values from the application's properties file.
For details on valid manifest formats and other ways of exposing Solace service manifests to your application, see the Manifest Load Order and Expected Formats section in the Solace Services Info project.
Updating your Application Properties
Alternatively, configuration of the SpringJCSMPFactory can also be done through the application.properties file. This is where users can control the Solace Java API properties. Currently this project supports direct configuration of the following properties:
solace.java.host
solace.java.msgVpn
solace.java.clientUsername
solace.java.clientPassword
solace.java.clientName
solace.java.connectRetries
solace.java.reconnectRetries
solace.java.connectRetriesPerHost
solace.java.reconnectRetryWaitInMillis
Where reasonable, sensible defaults are always chosen. So a developer using a Solace PubSub+ message broker and wishing to use the default message-vpn may only set the solace.java.host.
See SolaceJavaProperties for the most up to date list.
Any additional Solace Java API properties can be set through configuring solace.java.apiProperties.<Property> where <Property> is the name of the property as defined in the Solace Java API documentation for com.solacesystems.jcsmp.JCSMPProperties, for example:
solace.java.apiProperties.reapply_subscriptions=false
solace.java.apiProperties.ssl_trust_store=/path/to/truststore
Note that the direct configuration of solace.java. properties takes precedence over the solace.java.apiProperties..
Building the Project Yourself
This project depends on maven for building. To build the jar locally, check out the project and build from source by doing the following:
git clone https://github.com/SolaceProducts/solace-java-spring-boot.git
cd solace-java-spring-boot
mvn package
This will build the auto-configuration jar and associated sample.
Note: As currently setup, the build requires Java 1.8. If you want to use another older version of Java adjust the build accordingly.
Running the Sample
The simplest way to run the sample is from the project root folder using maven. For example:
cd solace-java-sample-app
mvn spring-boot:run
Hint: look for "Sending Hello World" and "TextMessage received: Hello World" in the displayed logs.
Note: the JMS sample will automatically provision the queue used for testing on the message broker.
Contributing
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on the process for submitting pull requests to us.
Authors
See the list of contributors who participated in this project.
License
This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. - See the LICENSE file for details.
Code of Conduct
Resources
For more information about Spring Boot Auto-Configuration and Starters try these resources:
- Spring Docs - Spring Boot Auto-Configuration
- Spring Docs - Developing Auto-Configuration
- GitHub Tutorial - Master Spring Boot Auto-Configuration
For more information about Solace technology in general please visit these resources:
- The Solace Developer Portal website at: http://dev.solace.com
- Understanding Solace technology.
- Ask the Solace community.
