Modern Spring Boot Application Development

• Explore some new Java 17/21 features such as:
  • Records
  • Text Blocks
  • Type Inference using var
  • Virtual Threads, etc
• Spring Boot application demonstrating the following features:
  • Testcontainers Support
  • JdbcClient
  • RestClient
  • HTTP Interfaces
  • GraalVM Native Image Support

Run application

$ ./mvnw spring-boot:test-run

Run application using Docker Compose in JVM mode

$ ./mvnw spring-boot:build-image
$ docker compose -f complete-app.yml up --build -d
$ docker compose -f complete-app.yml logs -f

Run application using Docker Compose in GraalVM Native mode

$ ./mvnw -Pnative spring-boot:build-image
$ docker compose -f complete-app.yml up --build -d
$ docker compose -f complete-app.yml logs -f
$ curl http://localhost:8080/api/bookmarks | jq .

References

• Spring Boot Testcontainers Support
• Testcontainers
• Testcontainers Desktop
• Testcontainers Guides
• Testcontainers Best Practices
• JdbcClient Tutorial
• REST Clients
• RestClient
• HTTP Interfaces
• GraalVM Native Image Support