Time to Complete
15 minutes
Difficulty
Beginner
Spring is a powerful ecosystem for building applications in Java and other JVM-based languages, providing a flexible, modular architecture that allows you to bring in exactly the capabilities you need. We’ve seen many teams have success delivering Spring-based microservices using Cassandra. Check out these best practices and learning exercises.
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Spring Boot is the glue that holds a Spring application or microservice together, providing dependency management and wiring together the various Spring modules that you’ve selected. For example, you can build a service that exposes a RESTful API via HTTP using Spring Web, and implement the operations on the API using the DataStax Java Driver. It’s simple to configure the driver using environment variables or configuration files to connect to your Cassandra cluster, whether it’s open source, DataStax Enterprise, or DataStax Astra.
Next concept: Accessing Cassandra through Spring DataSpring Data abstracts the details of interacting directly with database drivers, allowing you instead to interact with Data Access Objects (DAOs) which you annotate with desired persistence options. For simple Cassandra database access, use Spring Data Cassandra. If you want a reactive app, Spring Data Cassandra Reactive is also available.
Next concept: Starting your Spring Project
When you’re ready to start building your Spring application, the Spring Initializr is a great tool that allows you to pick which Spring modules you want to use and automatically generates your project configuration and skeleton code.
Next: Skill BuildingThis hands on learning exercise will help you create a simple Spring Boot project using Cassandra.
This scenario is a brief introduction to Spring Boot so you can see how to create an initial project.
Do you want to set up your first Spring Boot project? Then, you're at the right place!
In this scenario, we'll learn how to:
This scenario is a brief introduction to Spring Boot so you can see how to create an initial project.
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Learn how to clone and run the Spring Reactive Pet Clinic app
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Understand the front-end of serving a single Pet Clinic Entity
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Understand the backend of serving a single Pet Clinic Entity
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Check out this example of Spring Data Cassandra REST API using DataStax Astra.
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Adopt a cloud-native approach with Java, Cassandra and microservices.
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You can start to build modern, cloud native apps today using the latest innovations from Spring, Cassandra and Kubernetes.
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Cedrick Lunven talks with Mark Paluch, Spring Data Lead at Vmware, about the origins of the Spring Framework.
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See the docs on the modern, feature-rich and highly tunable Java client library for Cassandra.
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