Code / demo for MicroProfile Starter

[Rudy De Busscher]

Hi all,

Today I gave a quick demo on the MicroProfile Starter application on the Community Live hangout.

Idea of the application is that it generates a Maven application specific for MicroProfile with some examples of the specifications.

The application is just a POC and can be of course updated to have a better UX, MicroProfile theme colours, etc ..

Demo is available at http://mp-starter-jessie.1d35.starter-us-east-1.openshiftapps.com/mp-starter/

Code is available at https://github.com/rdebusscher/MicroProfile-start

I'm happy to move the code to MP GitHub repo and maintain/improve it together with the MP Community. 

best Regards

Rudy

[Emily Jiang]

Thank you Rudy for the followup! +1 on bringing code to MicroProfile github! The suggested repo is called microprofile-starter. Any other comments?

Emily

[John Clingan]

Thanks Rudy for creating the app! +1 on moving the code to the microprofile GitHub. By doing so, I believe this also implies that Rudy would (pragmatically) need to come up for a vote as a MicroProfile committer. Thoughts?

[Emily Jiang]

+1. I was thinking along the same line, John!

Emily

[Daniel Platz]

Hi,

My name is Daniel and I like the idea of having something like this for microprofile.

I have been developing a similar tool for personal use for demos/projects/trainings to scaffold Java EE starter-projects (https://github.com/38leinaD/jeeez; it is a bash-based commandline tool), so I have some thoughts on this for some future version maybe.

Additional support for Gradle would be good; the main reason i developed my tool was that i need gradle-project very often and there is nothing like maven archetypes in the gradle world yet.

Speaking about archetypes, is there an official mircorpropfile archetype for maven available? If not, maybe it is a good thing to have as well and ideally, the generated maven projects should be similar or ideally the same.

For the combinations/selections of app-servers i tried, the mavebn project did not contain a way to run the application. To me, the main use-case for this should be to support first-time users to get started easily. This means, the user should ideally be able to not just have a project that builds the application but also is capable of starting it (like: "mvn run"). Talking about maven, this now heavily depends on what app-server is chosen and if a plugin for maven is available. With gradle, there would be the same issue again; so, maybe maven has a plugin for liberty, but gradle does not. So, this is not easy but maybe it's just the way it is.

A way I have found around this for myself, is by including a docker-compose.yml in the project where it is much easier to run the application on different app-servers easily. But this would require the person using this to have docker. i am not sure if this is something that can be expected for the average person that wants to use the microprofile starter.

I think it would be interesting what ideas others have on how "build & run" could be supported by the tool. But i think it would really be awesome if some day the tool could cover both maven and gradle AND running/deploying on a big variety of app-servers.

Daniel

[John Clingan]

Rudy, there is a formal Eclipse Process to becoming a committer, and it starts with becoming a contributor. Rudy will need to first sign the Eclipse Contributor Agreement if he hasn't already. Then he can request that we create a new MicroProfile repo, create a pull request, and then we can get the project moving forward. See "Committers and Contributors"

[Rudy De Busscher]

John,

ECA is already signed earlier (for Jakarta EE, https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/rdebusscher/eca). So should I then request the creation of microprofile-starter at Eclipse infra? (a link would be great where I need to do that)

Thx

Regards

Rudy

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[Emily Jiang]

Hi Rudy,

Follow the instruction here.

Thanks
Emily

[Rudy De Busscher]

Done, see: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=538396

I guess it will need a +1 from the Project lead before they will start on it.

Regards

Rudy

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[Emily Jiang]

John, Kevin,

Can either of you provide a +1 on the ticket Rudy raised?

Thanks

Emily