Playing with Spring on Windows

This repository gathers Spring code examples coming from various websites and books. It also includes several build scripts (Bash scripts, batch files, Gradle scripts) for experimenting with Spring on a Windows machine.

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Project dependencies

This project depends on the following external software for the Microsoft Windows platform:

• Apache Maven 3.9 (requires Java 8+) (release notes)
• Git 2.47 (release notes)
• Gradle 8.11 (requires Java 8+) (release notes)
• Temurin OpenJDK 17 LTS (release notes, bug fixes)

☛ Maven packages
We present the Maven package dependencies in document PACKAGES.md.

Optionally one may also install the following software:

• ConEmu 2023 (release notes)
• Spring Boot CLI 3
• Temurin OpenJDK 21 LTS (release notes, bug fixes, Java 21 API)
• Visual Studio Code 1.95 (release notes)

☛ Installation policy
When possible we install software from a Zip archive rather than via a Windows installer. In our case we defined C:\opt\ as the installation directory for optional software tools (in reference to the /opt/ directory on Unix).

For instance our development environment looks as follows (December 2024) ¹:

C:\opt\apache-maven\            ( 10 MB)
C:\opt\ConEmu\                  ( 26 MB)
C:\opt\Git\                     (367 MB)
C:\opt\gradle\                  (135 MB)
C:\opt\jdk-temurin-17.0.13_11\  (301 MB)
C:\opt\jdk-temurin-21.0.5_11\   (326 MB)
C:\opt\spring-cli\              (  6 MB)
C:\opt\VSCode\                  (341 MB)

🔎 Git for Windows provides a Bash emulation used to run git from the command line (as well as over 250 Unix commands like awk, diff, file, grep, more, mv, rmdir, sed and wc).

Directory structure ▴

This project is organized as follows:

docs\
examples\{README.md, demo, gs-rest-service, ..}
PACKAGES.md
README.md
RESOURCES.md
setenv.bat

where

• directory docs\ contains Spring related documents.
• directory examples\ contains Spring code examples (see file examples\README.md).
• file PACKAGES.md presents the Maven packages our projects depend on.
• file README.md is the Markdown document for this page.
• file RESOURCES.md is the Markdown document presenting external resources.
• file setenv.bat is the batch command for setting up our environment.

Batch/Bash commands

setenv.bat ²

We execute command setenv.bat once to setup our development environment; it makes external tools such as gradle.bat, git.exe and sh.exe directly available from the command prompt.

> setenv -verbose
Tool versions:
   javac 17.0.13, java 17.0.13, Spring CLI v3.4.0,
   gradle 8.11.1, mvn 3.9.9,
   git 2.47.1, diff 3.10, bash 5.2.37(1)
Tool paths:
   C:\opt\jdk-temurin-17.0.13_11\bin\javac.exe
   C:\opt\jdk-temurin-17.0.13_11\bin\java.exe
   C:\opt\spring-cli\bin\spring.bat
   C:\opt\gradle\bin\gradle.bat
   C:\opt\apache-maven\bin\mvn.cmd
   C:\opt\Git\bin\git.exe
   C:\opt\Git\usr\bin\diff.exe
   C:\opt\Git\bin\bash.exe
Environment variables:
   "GIT_HOME=C:\opt\Git"
   "GRADLE_HOME=C:\opt\gradle"
   "JAVA_HOME=C:\opt\jdk-temurin-17.0.13_11"
   "JAVA11_HOME=C:\opt\jdk-temurin-11.0.23_9"
   "JAVA17_HOME=C:\opt\jdk-temurin-17.0.13_11"
   "JAVA21_HOME=C:\opt\jdk-temurin-21.0.5_11"
   "MAVEN_HOME=C:\opt\apache-maven"
   "PYTHON_HOME=C:\opt\Python-3.11.1"
   "SPRING_HOME=C:\opt\spring-cli"

> where gradle mvn sh
C:\opt\gradle\bin\gradle.bat
C:\opt\apache-maven\bin\mvn
C:\opt\apache-maven\bin\mvn.cmd
C:\opt\Git\bin\sh.exe
C:\opt\Git\usr\bin\sh.exe

🔎 Subcommand help prints the following help message :

  > setenv help
  Usage: setenv { <option> | <subcommand> }
   
    Options:
      -bash       start Git bash shell instead of Windows command prompt
      -debug      print commands executed by this script
      -verbose    print progress messages
   
    Subcommands:
      help        print this help message
  

Footnotes ▴

[1] Downloads ↩

In our case we downloaded the following installation files (see section 1):

apache-maven-3.9.9-bin.zip                         ( 10 MB)
ConEmuPack.230724.7z                               (  5 MB)
gradle-8.11.1-bin.zip                              (110 MB)
OpenJDK17U-jdk_x64_windows_hotspot_17.0.13_11.zip  (176 MB)
OpenJDK21U-jdk_x64_windows_hotspot_21.0.5_11.zip   (191 MB)
PortableGit-2.47.1-64-bit.7z.exe                   ( 55 MB)
spring-boot-cli-3.4.0-bin.zip                      (  5 MB)
VSCode-win32-x64-1.95.3.zip                        (131 MB)

[2] setenv.bat usage ↩

Batch file setenv.bat has specific environment variables set that enable us to use command-line developer tools more easily.

It is similar to the setup scripts described on the page "Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt and Developer PowerShell" of the Visual Studio online documentation.

For instance we can quickly check that the two scripts Launch-VsDevShell.ps1 and VsDevCmd.bat are indeed available in our Visual Studio 2019 installation :

> where /r "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio" *vsdev*
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\Tools\Launch-VsDevShell.ps1
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\core\vsdevcmd_end.bat
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\core\vsdevcmd_start.bat

Concretely, in our GitHub projects which depend on Visual Studio (e.g. michelou/cpp-examples), setenv.bat does invoke VsDevCmd.bat (resp. vcvarall.bat for older Visual Studio versions) to setup the Visual Studio tools on the command prompt.

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