Last updated: 2024-09-24
Creating a PoC for Spring Boot
A Proof of Concept (PoC) is a good way to test the viability of an idea or technology before major investments are made. The aim could be to investigate technical functionality, performance or potential risks. In this article, we take a look at how to create a PoC for Spring Boot and how Bootify can support this process.
Spring Boot basics
Spring Boot is designed to develop real applications for productive usage. Spring has a long history of open-source development, a huge community and countless libraries to support all kinds of scenarios.
As with other technologies, it is preferable to stay close to the standards and best practices and only deviate from them if there are really important reasons to do so. Spring Boot provides many starter libraries to implement functions in a particular way: Spring Data, Spring Security and much more.
Thanks to the Convention over Configuration principle, the configuration only needs to be extended where a variation from the standard is required. All types of tests are supported with suitable extensions, in particular Testcontainers for integration tests.
Building a Proof of Concept
Bootify is a tool to create modern, individual prototypes for Spring Boot in the current version 3.3.4. Start a project directly in the browser without registration and define your first settings.
- Gradle or Maven as build tool
- Java or Kotlin as language, optionally Lombok
- Technical, domain-oriented or mixed package structure
A frontend stack with Thymeleaf or Angular can also be added if required. The code of your PoC can be reviewed and downloaded at any time.
Defining the PoC settings
As a next step, the schema for your selected database can be created. If you are migrating to Spring Boot from an old application, you can directly use the SQL import.
The CRUD option for the REST API or the frontend can be activated for each table. This will show how forms are handled with Spring Boot. Best practices for Thymeleaf as well as best practices for Angular are automatically included.
Database schema of the new prototype
Final steps
Depending on the questions addressed by the Proof of Concept, further steps may be useful - such as deploying in the preferred cloud or testing scalability. Advanced features can be added to your prototype with Bootify's Professional plan. These include a complex Spring Security setup, integration tests with Testcontainers and much more.
With Bootify, a PoC for a non-trivial application is available in just a few minutes to clarify relevant aspects. At the same time, you have a high-quality basis for further development of the app for productive use.
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