Spring Boot best practices

[ralf-berger]

Check documentation for best practices in production. E.g., should the application actually be containerized as a JAR file, or is it better to have it already unpacked?

• Layered JARs (Spring Boot version ≥ 2.3.0)

[shoebjoarder]

@ralf-berger have you tried leaving it unpacked?

[ralf-berger]

@ralf-berger have you tried leaving it unpacked?

No, I didn't find any mentions of this for containers in the docs. It is mentioned, that archives come with a small startup cost, but there doesn't seem to be any difference in terms of runtime performance.

[shoebjoarder]

I have almost managed to fix the issue with the analytics framework. A built version of its jar can now read external jars (analytics and visualization). I tested this by running the jar file and in Docker. I will push the changes soon to test them on the edge.

[shoebjoarder]

In the latest commit 9ce0a2d, I implemented admin UI, where we can upload Visualization Method (completed) and Analytics Method (under development) jar files. To test, you need to log in using admin credentials first. Then you should download this file to upload to the application in Visualization Methods page. Currently, I have the jars already uploaded. The dropdown should appear to select the visualization library.

[shoebjoarder]

After some tries by selecting from the dropdown and moving to and coming back from other pages, the file loads. I am not able to understand the issue, why is this happening occasionally. This is working well in the local docker container, but not in edge.

[ralf-berger]

Can't find anything useful in the linked commit. Which issue is this about? What's the associated branch?

[shoebjoarder]

It seems to work properly in this branch. Could you have a look and test as mentioned here