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Embed tomcat without spring boot

Embed tomcat without spring boot

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Embed tomcat without spring boot

Add Tomcat dependencies

<properties>
      <tomcat.version>9.0.43</tomcat.version>
      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
      <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
      <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
</properties>
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
      <artifactId>tomcat-embed-core</artifactId>
      <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
      <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
      <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
      <artifactId>tomcat-jasper</artifactId>
      <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
      <artifactId>tomcat-jasper-el</artifactId>
      <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
      <artifactId>tomcat-jsp-api</artifactId>
      <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
      <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
      <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
      <version>1.2</version>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
      <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
      <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
      <version>3.1.0</version>
  </dependency>

Plain tomcat is lightweight without spring dependencies. For building microservices, we can embed tomcat into a java project.

Writing REST API Controllers without spring boot

Write plain old servlets and filters to handle REST requests.

Handling JSON request

Spring boot provides RequestMapping to handle JSON requests. The incoming json payload can be accepted as string body and converted to JSON using a JSON parsing library.

String requestData = request.getReader().lines().collect(Collectors.joining());

Request payload to object mapping

The incoming json/xml request can be converted to object using jaxb. Here Moxy can come handy to do what spring boot is doing with @RequestMapping and @RequestBody annotations. In the below piece of code, you can pass the request data as stream and class name to marshal the object to.

  public Object getBodyObject(InputStream stream, Class clazz) {
      try {

          Map<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<>();
          properties.put(JAXBContextProperties.MEDIA_TYPE, "application/json");
          properties.put(JAXBContextProperties.JSON_INCLUDE_ROOT, false);
          properties.put(JAXBContextProperties.JSON_ATTRIBUTE_PREFIX, "@");
          final JAXBContext jaxbContext =
                  JAXBContextFactory.createContext(new Class<?>[]{clazz}, properties);
          Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();
          //https://stackoverflow.com/q/20962053/1097600
          return unmarshaller.unmarshal(new StreamSource(stream), clazz).getValue();
      } catch (JAXBException e) {
          Logger.getLogger(JsonBodyStrategy.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, e);
      }
      return null;
  }

JAXB can be used to convert the Object back to json during response.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
  <artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.moxy</artifactId>
  <version>2.6.0</version>
</dependency>

```xml
<dependency>
  <groupId>jakarta.xml.bind</groupId>
  <artifactId>jakarta.xml.bind-api</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.2</version>
</dependency>


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