README.md



Distributed version of the Spring PetClinic Sample Application built with Spring Cloud 

This microservices branch was initially derived from AngularJS version to demonstrate how to split sample Spring application into microservices. To achieve that goal we used Spring Cloud Netflix technology stack.

Starting services locally
Every microservice is a Spring Boot application and can be started locally using IDE or mvn spring-boot:run command. Please note that supporting services (Config and Discovery Server) must be started before any other application (Customers, Vets, Visits and API). Tracing server startup is optional.
If everything goes well, you can access the following services at given location:

Discovery Server - http://localhost:8761

Config Server - http://localhost:8888

AngularJS frontend (API Gateway) - http://localhost:8080

Customers, Vets and Visits Services - random port, check Eureka Dashboard
Tracing Server (Zipkin) - http://localhost:9411


Understanding the Spring Petclinic application with a few diagrams
See the presentation here
You can then access petclinic here: http://localhost:8080/


In case you find a bug/suggested improvement for Spring Petclinic
Our issue tracker is available here: https://github.com/spring-petclinic/spring-petclinic-microservices/issues

Database configuration
In its default configuration, Petclinic uses an in-memory database (HSQLDB) which
gets populated at startup with data. A similar setup is provided for MySql in case a persistent database configuration is needed.
Note that whenever the database type is changed, the data-access.properties file needs to be updated and the mysql-connector-java artifact from the pom.xml needs to be uncommented.
You may start a MySql database with docker:

docker run -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=petclinic -e MYSQL_DATABASE=petclinic -p 3306:3306 mysql:5.7.8


Working with Petclinic in Eclipse/STS

prerequisites
The following items should be installed in your system:

Maven 3 (http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/installation.html)
git command line tool (https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git)
Eclipse with the m2e plugin (m2e is installed by default when using the STS (http://www.springsource.org/sts) distribution of Eclipse)

Note: when m2e is available, there is an m2 icon in Help -> About dialog.
If m2e is not there, just follow the install process here: http://eclipse.org/m2e/download/