axon-springboot-websocket

The goal of this project is play with Axon. For it, we will implement a food-ordering app that consists of three Spring Boot applications: customer-service, restaurant-service and food-ordering-service. These services were implemented with CQRS and Event Sourcing in mind so, in order to achieve it, we used Axon Framework. The three services are connected to axon-server that is the Event Store and Message Routing solution used.

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Project Diagram

Applications

• customer-service

  Spring Boot application that exposes a REST API to manage Customers. It also has a UI implemented using Javascript, JQuery and Semantic UI.

  

  customer-service was implemented using Axon Framework. Everytime a customer is added, updated or deleted, the service emits the respective event, i.e, CustomerAddedEvent, CustomerUpdatedEvent or CustomerDeletedEvent.

  customer-service uses MySQL to store customer's data. Besides, it listens to order events, collects the order information that it needs and stores them in an order table present in its own database, so that it doesn't need to call another service to get this information.

• restaurant-service

  Spring Boot application that exposes a REST API to manage Restaurants. It also has a UI implemented using Javascript, JQuery and Semantic UI.

  

  restaurant-service was implemented using Axon Framework. Everytime a restaurant is added, updated or deleted, the service emits the respective event, i.e, RestaurantAddedEvent, RestaurantUpdatedEvent or RestaurantDeletedEvent. The same applies to the restaurant dishes, whose events are: RestaurantDishAddedEvent, RestaurantDishUpdatedEvent or RestaurantDishDeletedEvent

  restaurant-service uses PostgreSQL to store restaurant/dish data. Besides, it listens to order events, collects the order information that it needs and stores them in an order table present in its own database, so that it doesn't need to call another service to get this information.

• food-ordering-service

  Spring Boot application that exposes a REST API to manage Orders. It has a UI implemented using Javascript, JQuery and Semantic UI.

  

  food-ordering-service was implemented using Axon Framework. Everytime an order is created, the service emits the respective event, i.e, OrderCreatedEvent.

  food-ordering-service uses MongoDB to store order data. Besides, it listens to customer and restaurant/dish events, collects the information that it needs and stores them in a customer or restaurant/dish table present in this own database, so that it doesn't need to call another service to get this information.

• axon-event-commons

  Maven project where all events mentioned above are defined. It generates a JAR file that is added as a dependency in the pom.xml of customer-service, restaurant-service and food-ordering-service.

Prerequisites

• Java 17+
• Docker

Start Environment

• Open a terminal and inside axon-springboot-websocket root folder run

  docker compose up -d
  

• Wait for Docker containers to be up and running. To check it, run

  docker compose ps
  

Running applications with Maven

Inside axon-springboot-websocket root folder, run the following commands in different terminals.

• axon-event-commons

  ./mvnw clean install --projects axon-event-commons
  

• customer-service

  ./mvnw clean spring-boot:run --projects customer-service -Dspring-boot.run.jvmArguments="-Dserver.port=9080"
  

• restaurant-service

  ./mvnw clean spring-boot:run --projects restaurant-service -Dspring-boot.run.jvmArguments="-Dserver.port=9081"
  

• food-ordering-service

  ./mvnw clean spring-boot:run --projects food-ordering-service -Dspring-boot.run.jvmArguments="-Dserver.port=9082"
  

Running applications as Docker containers

• Build Docker images

  • In a terminal, make sure you are in axon-springboot-websocket root folder
  • Run the following script to build the Docker images
    • JVM

      ./docker-build.sh
      

    • Native (it's not implemented yet)

      ./docker-build.sh native
      

• Environment Variables

  • customer-service

    Environment Variable	Description
    MYSQL_HOST	Specify host of the MySQL database to use (default localhost)
    MYSQL_PORT	Specify port of the MySQL database to use (default 3306)
    AXON_SERVER_HOST	Specify host of the Axon Server to use (default localhost)
    AXON_SERVER_PORT	Specify port of the Axon Server to use (default 8124)

  • restaurant-service

    Environment Variable	Description
    POSTGRES_HOST	Specify host of the Postgres database to use (default localhost)
    POSTGRES_PORT	Specify port of the Postgres database to use (default 5432)
    AXON_SERVER_HOST	Specify host of the Axon Server to use (default localhost)
    AXON_SERVER_PORT	Specify port of the Axon Server to use (default 8124)

  • food-ordering-service

    Environment Variable	Description
    MONGODB_HOST	Specify host of the Mongo database to use (default localhost)
    MONGODB_PORT	Specify port of the Mongo database to use (default 27017)
    AXON_SERVER_HOST	Specify host of the Axon Server to use (default localhost)
    AXON_SERVER_PORT	Specify port of the Axon Server to use (default 8124)

• Start Docker containers

  • In a terminal, make sure you are inside axon-springboot-websocket root folder
  • Run following command

    ./start-apps.sh
    

Application URLs

Application	URL	Swagger
customer-service	http://localhost:9080	http://localhost:9080/swagger-ui.html
restaurant-service	http://localhost:9081	http://localhost:9081/swagger-ui.html
food-ordering-service	http://localhost:9082	http://localhost:9082/swagger-ui.html

Demo

The GIF below shows a user creating a customer in customer-service UI. Then, in restaurant-service UI, he creates a restaurant and adds a dish. Finally, using food-ordering-service UI, he submits an order using the customer and restaurant/dish created. Note that as soon as a customer or restaurant/dish is created, an event is sent and, the consumer of this event updates its UI in realtime using WebSockets.

Useful Commands & Links

• Axon Server

  Axon Server dashboard can be accessed at http://localhost:8024

  

• MySQL

  docker exec -it -e MYSQL_PWD=secret mysql mysql -uroot --database customerdb
  
  SELECT * FROM customers;
  SELECT * FROM orders;
  

  Type exit to exit

• PostgreSQL

  docker exec -it postgres psql -U postgres -d restaurantdb
  
  SELECT * FROM restaurants;
  SELECT * FROM dishes;
  SELECT * FROM orders;
  

  Type \q to exit

• MongoDB

  docker exec -it mongodb mongo foodorderingdb
  
  db.customers.find()
  db.restaurants.find()
  db.orders.find()
  

  Type exit to exit

Shutdown

• To stop applications
  • If you start them with Maven, go to the terminals where they are running and press Ctrl+C
  • If you start them as Docker containers, make sure you are inside axon-springboot-websocket root folder and run the following script

    ./stop-apps.sh
    

• To stop and remove docker compose containers, network and volumes, go to a terminal and, inside axon-springboot-websocket root folder, run the command below

  docker compose down -v
  

Cleanup

To remove the docker images created by this project, go to a terminal and, inside axon-springboot-websocket root folder, run the following script

./remove-docker-images.sh

References

• https://sgitario.github.io/axon-by-example/
• https://blog.nebrass.fr/playing-with-cqrs-and-event-sourcing-in-spring-boot-and-axon/