SpringBlog

SpringBlog is a very simple blog system implemented with Spring MVC. It's one of my learning projects which took me two days to develop the first minimal and runnable version. I've put it on production for my personal website http://raysmond.com.

I think I need to emphasized that it's a learning project to learn and apply awesome and new features in Java web programming, especially with Spring Framework. A blog site is just a good place to get started.

SpringBlog is powered by many powerful frameworks and third-party projects:

• Spring Boot + Spring MVC + Spring JPA + Hibernate - Powerful frameworks
• HikariCP - A solid high-performance JDBC connection pool
• Bootstrap - A very popular and responsive front-end framework
• Pegdown - A pure-java markdown processor
• ACE Editor - A high performance code editor
• Pygments - Python syntax highlighter
• Jade4j - Jade is an elegant template language
• Webjars - A client-side web libraries packaged into JAR files. A easy way to manage JavaScript and CSS vendors in Gradle.
• Redis - A very powerful in-memory data cache server.

Development

Before development, please install the following service software:

• MySQL5
• Redis
  • how-to-install-and-use-redis-on-ubuntu
• Pygments
  • A python library for highlighting code syntax

Edit application configuration file src/main/resources/dev_app.properties according to your settings.

And start MySQL, Redis and Pygments first before running the application.

# If you're using Ubuntu server
sudo service mysql start
sudo service redis_6379 start
sudo pip install pygments

This is a Gradle project. Make sure Gradle is installed in your machine. Try gradle -v command. Otherwise install in from http://www.gradle.org/. I recommend you import the source code into Intellij IDE to edit the code.

# Start the web application
./gradlew bootRun

View http://localhost:8080/ on your browser.

Todo

• Convert to Spring Boot project. Try to keep the configuration simple using automated configurations. And try to separate different application configuration environment (e.g. dev/production/staging)
• Handling static web resources with ResourceSolvers and ResourceTransformers introduced in Spring Framework 4.1.
• Post tagging implementation
• Awesome features are always welcome.

Deployment

Use gradle to build a production war and deploy it on Jetty9 server in Linux. Before deployment, please install Java8, Jetty9 and the latest version of Redis server.

./gradlew build

TODO deployment with Spring Boot