SPRING BOOT – PART4

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INDEX
Memory Database

Embedded Database – H2

Spring Boot – Memory DB – H2

THYMELEAF

ModelAndView
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 CHAPTER 1

IN-MEMORY DB
WHY ANOTHER TYPE OF DB
 Typical databases involves lot of setup. For example, Oracle or MS SQL
databases will require following steps:-
 Provisioning of new Server
 Installation of database on Server
 Setting up complex configuration
 Setting up Schema, table etc
 Open network ports like 1521, 1433 etc for applications to connect
 Connect application to DB using data source and lot of other code......
 Case1 – Let’s consider a use case, where we want to perform quick POC,
but traditional database involves lot of overhead
 Case2 – We wanted to develop Microservice using lightweight database
 Case3 – Fast response time for static data
 Case4 – Need fast, cost efficient and manageable database

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MEMORY DATABASE
 In-memory databases are designed to attain minimal response
time by eliminating need to access disk over network

App Memory DB
(No n/w call)
App

App
Database Access
over Network
App

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MEMORY DATABASE ....
 In-memory or Memory database is a type of purpose-built
database that relies primarily on memory (RAM) for data
storage, in contrast to databases that store data on disk or SSDs

 In-memory database can be used to manage Caching - A cache

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MEMORY DATABASE ....
 Also known by different aliases
 IMDB – In-Memory database
 MMDB – Main memory database
 RTDB – Real-time database
 IMDS – In-Memory database system
 Memory resident database

 Downside is volatility of RAM i.e. data is lost if memory

 RAM is costlier as compared to HDD, SSD

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MEMORY DATABASE ....
 Advantages of Memory Database are :-
 Minimal Configuration & Maintenance
 Faster and real-time
 Zero project setup or infrastructure
 Easy to use for Learning, POCs and Unit Tests
 Spring Boot provides simple configuration to switch between real
database & in-memory database like H2
Popular Memory Databases are :-
 H2  Hazelcast
 Redis  Apache Ignite
 SQLite  Aerospike
 Apache Derby  PostgresSQL
 Amazon Elasticache for Redis  Google Cloud Memorystore
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H2 DATABASE
 H2 is an open-source lightweight relational Java database.
 H2 database can be configured to run as in-memory database,
which means data will not persist on disk
 H2 db is mostly used for POC, Testing, cache implementation etc.
 This database can be used in embedded mode or in server mode
 Main features of H2 db are:-
https://www.h2database.com/
 Extremely fast, open source, JDBC API
 Available in embedded & server modes; in-memory databases
 Browser-based Console application
 Small footprint − Around 2MB jar file size
 Supports clustering and multi-version concurrency

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H2 DATABASE & SPRING BOOT
 We need very little configuration to connect Spring Boot application with
H2 DB. In most situations, just adding H2 runtime jar into dependencies
should be sufficient

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 H2 CONSOLE
 H2 provides a web interface called H2
Console to see data, which is disabled by
default. It can be enabled using following
property

 H2 console can be accessed using

http://localhost:8088/h2-console

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H2 DB CONFIGURATION
 We can change default configuration using following properties

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CREATE & SELECT TABLE
 We can create table using H2 Console using SQL as shown below

CREATE TABLE COURSE (

 H2 is in-memory db, which

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H2 DB PERSISTENCE
 We can change behaviour of H2 db from memory based to file
based using following property :-

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DB OPERATIONS
 Now after restarting application, data will be retained

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DATABASE COMPARISON
Server

Network
Database Access
App over Network
Minimum Response Time
Client

Server

Memory DB - RAM
App (No n/w call)
Client Maximum Response Time
Server

App Memory DB – File system

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 CHAPTER 2

THYMELEAF
THYMELEAF
 Thymeleaf is an open-source Java library (Apache License 2.0),
which is used to create a web application
 It is a HTML5/XHTML/XML template engine
 The goal of Thymeleaf is to provide a stylish and well-formed way of
creating templates
 Thymeleaf can process six types of templates
 XML
 Valid XML
 XHTML
 Valid XHTML
 HTML5
 Legacy HTML5

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THYMELEAF SETUP
 Add dependency, Controller with unique URI, html & styling file

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THYMELEAF SETUP ....
 \resources\templates\index.html
 \resources\static\css\styles.css

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THYMELEAF OUTPUT
 In this example, request URI is /index and controller is
redirected to index.html

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THYMELEAF SWAGGER

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@RESTCONTROLLER VS @CONTROLLER
 @RestController is combination of @Controller & @ResponseBody,
whose main purpose is to create RESTful web services
 RestController returns json from method, not HTML or JSP
 For returning html or jsp, simply annotate controller class with
@Controller

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@RESTCONTROLLER VS @CONTROLLER
 @Controller
When we use spring as SpringMVC

 @RestController
When we use spring as SpringRESTfull Web Service

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MODELANDVIEW
 This is holder for both Model & View in web MVC framework
 This class merely holds both to make it possible for a controller to
return both model & view in a single return value

View

Modal

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MODELANDVIEW EXAMPLE
 First step is to create
Controller with unique URI
like /input

 Create input.html, which

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MODELANDVIEW EXAMPLE ....
 Create final html view course-
data.html
Create ModelAndView which
will hold both Model i.e. Course and
our newly created View i.e. course-
data.html

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MODELANDVIEW EXAMPLE OUTPUT

input.html

course-data.html

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THANK YOU
HAPPY LEARNING!!

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