Taco Cloud is a sample application from the book Spring in Action, 5th Edition by Craig Walls. It is a website that allows users to design their custom tacos and order them online. The application is only a prototype that follows what is taught in the book.
Taco Kitchen is a supplementary application that listens for Order messages from the Taco Cloud application.
The project uses the following technologies:
- Java 11
- Maven
- Spring Boot 2
- H2 in-memory database
- Thymeleaf
- JMS (Artemis)
- AMQP (RabbitMQ)
The project demonstrates the following:
- Spring MVC using Thymeleaf
- Spring Security with JPA based user credentials
- Spring Profiles (different application properties for dev/qa/prod)
- Spring JMS messaging with Artemis and RabbitMQ
The following features are present in the project
- User registration / login
- Design Taco MVC
- Order Tacos MVC
- Messaging from Taco Cloud to Taco Kitchen using
- Artemis (JMS)
- RabbitMQ (AMQP). Default choice
The project consists of two separate applications
- Taco Cloud
- Taco Kitchen
Taco Cloud is the main application containing all the features. Taco Kitchen is a small application that only listens from messages from Taco Cloud
mvn spring-boot:run -f tacocloud-app
mvn spring-boot:run -f kitchen
To change the messaging service from rabbitMQ to artemis add the below
argument to the maven commands for both apps:
-Dmessaging.service=artemis
Launch the container using the command below
docker run -it -d --rm \
-e ARTEMIS_USERNAME=admin -e ARTEMIS_PASSWORD=admin \
-p 8161:8161 -p 61616:61616 \
--name artemis vromero/activemq-artemis
- Launch the container using the command below
- Create an exchange
tacocloud.orders - Create a queue
tacocloud.order.queue - Bind the queue to the exchange with the routing key
tacocloud.order
docker run -d --name rabbitmq \
-p 5672:5672 -p 15672:15672 \
-e RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_USER=admin -e RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_PASS=admin \
rabbitmq:3-management