Adding spring mvc to a spring java "desktop" application

Question

I have a Java desktop application which uses spring framework and I need to replace the Swing UI with a web front end. I understand that I will need to adapt many things to make things work with the MVC architecture. My concrete question is the following:

Will my application now have to run entirely in the application server?

I would appreciate if anyone could point me to some documentation that goes through a similar process.

Thanks!

Unless the application communicates (with sockets, RMI, web services or whatever) with another application, then yes, Spring MVC is servlet-based, and needs a servlet container to run. — JB Nizet
– JB Nizet, Commented Feb 4, 2015 at 17:06
My application does communicate with android clients using MQTT, would that represent a problem? — DiegoSahagun
– DiegoSahagun, Commented Feb 4, 2015 at 21:59
When you say web front end, do you mean that the application no longer runs on the desktop? — a better oliver
– a better oliver, Commented Feb 5, 2015 at 11:08
What I mean when I say "web front end" is to make the GUI accessible using a web browser so we can interact remotely with the application without the need of Remote Desktop, for example. I am not sure if that implies that the entire application will no longer run as a desktop application or not. — DiegoSahagun
– DiegoSahagun, Commented Feb 5, 2015 at 12:58

chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic- · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-04 17:17:20Z

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Technically yes, but Spring Boot makes it trivial to set up an embedded servlet container and package your entire application as a runnable jar. This is how we're deploying our applications to production; the only thing we need is a JRE on the server VM, and java -jar takes care of all of it.

I recommend using Maven with the Spring Boot plugin (there's also a Gradle plugin) with the repackage goal, and using the lightweight Undertow servlet engine instead of the default Tomcat.

answered Feb 4, 2015 at 17:17

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DiegoSahagun Over a year ago

Thanks, this is a good approach. I only had problems with multiple slf4j bindings since I was already using it but works now quite well.

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