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Spring: Microservices with Spring Boot

You're reading from   Spring: Microservices with Spring Boot Build and deploy microservices with Spring Boot

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789132588
Length 140 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Embedded Servers


One of the important concepts Spring Boot brings in is embedded servers.

Let's first understand the difference between traditional Java web application deployment and this new concept called embedded server.

Traditionally, with Java web applications, we build Web Application Archive (WAR) or Enterprise Application Archive (EAR) and deploy them into servers. Before we can deploy a WAR on the server, we need a web server or an application server installed on the server. The application server would be on top of the Java instance installed on the server. So, we need Java and an application (or web server) installed on the machine before we can deploy our application. The following figure shows an example installation in Linux:

Spring Boot brings in the concept of embedded servers, where the web server is part of the application deployable--JAR. To deploy applications using embedded servers, it is sufficient if Java is installed on the server. The following figure shows an example...

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