With K2 it is easy to write maintainable, production-grade, modular spring based applications. You can write web apps, rest services or simple stand alone applications.
In K2 there are two main concepts: application and module. An application simply serves as a module container. Modules are isolated pieces of functionality that touch other modules and the application through very specific 'contact surfaces'.
We use travis and sonar:
We strongly recommend that you create a simple application launcher that contains your main operation:
public class ApplicationLauncher {
public static void main(final String[] args) {
new MyApplication().run(args);
}
}
Write your application:
public class MyApplication extends Application {
public TestApplication() {
super(new Module1());
}
public static void main(final String ... args) {
Application application = new TestApplication();
application.run(new String[0]);
}
}
and write your modules:
@Component("testmodule")
public static class Module1 {
@Bean public String testBean() {
return new "Module 1 private bean";
}
};
K2 provides two archetypes: k2-archetype-application, to create a sample application with one module, and k2-archetype-module to add more modules to your application.
mvn -B archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=com.github.katari \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=k2-archetype-application -DarchetypeCatalog=local \
-DgroupId=sample -DartifactId=sample \
-Dpackage=sample -DclassPrefix=Sample -Dversion=0.1-SNAPSHOT
This is the command we used to generate the k2-shiro module:
mvn -B archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=com.github.katari \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=k2-archetype-module -DarchetypeCatalog=local \
-DgroupId=com.github.katari -DartifactId=k2-shiro \
-Dpackage=com.k2.shiro -DclassPrefix=Shiro -Dversion=0.1-SNAPSHOT
You need java 8 and maven 3.3.
Most modules can be started with mvn spring-boot:run. You can play with, for example, k2-swagger by:
cd k2-swagger
mvn spring-boot:run
and then go to the browser an point it to:
http://localhost:8081/swagger/