Java Web Server consists of multiple applications and APIs that are all custom implemented.
- Apache Tomcat -> Javache Web Server
- TomEE -> Javache Embedded
- Catalina -> Broccolina
- Coyote -> Toyote
- Spring MVC -> Summer Framework
- Custom Http API
- Custom Servlet API -> Solet API
Create a simplified but still functional web server platform and by doing that also help me and visitors better understand how things such as IOC, HTTP and Resource handling work under the hood.
Similar to Tomcat, Javache can
-
Put websites in a webapps (name of the folder is configurable) folder, extract them and then run them.
-
Have multiple resource handlers (Broccolina and Toyote) just by implementing ResourceHandler interface
Broccolina and Toyote jar files are placed in a folder where javache will read and execute them upon running.
Summer MVC is a fully custom MVC framework that has a templating engine, Dependency Container, Path variables, Binding Models, Validation, Security, Interceptors, Custom data adapters and more.
Multipart encoding is also supported.
Javache Embedded is an embedded version of Javache web server, which provides better debugging and much faster build times while developing. Javache Embedded can also be used in production.
Another benefit of the embedded server is that it can be used to create desktop applications with html, css and javaScript. For example we can have an embedded browser (CEF) that will be in the same app and it will browse on localhost and the server behind will act as it is a normal browser and will return views or JSON data. This is a much better approach for creating desktop applications for people that are more familiar with HTML rather than Java FX / Swing.
* Java 11
* Maven
* nio-multipart-parser used in Toyote for parsing multipart requests.
* Jackson Databind used in SummerMVC (Gson in older versions).
* Apache Tika used in Toyote for detecting media types.
* jTwig (org.jtwig) used as a templating engine in SummerMVC.
Magic-IoC-Container - Independent Depenency Container library that is used by javache since version 1.3. I have the code in my profile and a video on my YouTube channel demonstrating how to build one.
First, run build-and-deploy.bat, which is located in automated-build-scripts folder. This will create a folder named build-output. There you can find two folders (for javache standard and javache embedded). Go inside javache-standard. By default you need to put your app in the 'webapps' directory.
Your app has to be .jar and has to be structured like so:
- classes - put the compiled output there (classes, resources)
- lib - you can put the .jar libraries here or put them instead in javache's lib folder.
After you put your app, run StartJavache.bat. This will start the server and load your applications (by default on port 8000).
To better understand, you can extract some of the provided example applications and/or read the documentation inside Documentation folder.
In the examples folder you can find a working javache demo with everything set up.
If you are having trouble running the app, contact me at ceci2205@abv.bg . Check out this repo: https://github.com/Cyecize/White-Goods-Backend-Javache It is a REST application fully built on this framework using the best practices for REST and WEB development.
The idea for this project came from a workshop in a software academy that I went to.
The web server that we made there was intended to show really vaguely the idea behind web servers and how they operate. We had about 5 labs and the final app was really buggy and slow, and it lacked many functionalities that are essential, such as asynchronous requests, uploading files, dependency injection, template engine, exception handling, security, interceptors, embedded version of the server and basically the whole app was really primitive.
So I decided to start from the ground up and create somewhat similar application, but more functional which resulted in something that was totally different than the original project except the names of the mini applications such as Summer, Javache and so on.