Create a Hello World web application
If you are looking to create a simple Hello World web application with Piranha Servlet to get started then look no further!
In 5 steps you will learn how to create the web application. They are:
- Create the Maven POM file
- Add the helloworld.html page
- Add an integration test
- Test the application
- Deploy the application
Create the Maven POM file
Create an empty directory to store your Maven project. Inside of that directory create the pom.xml
file with the content as below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>cloud.piranha.guides.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>helloworld</artifactId>
<version>1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Piranha Servlet - HelloWorld web application</name>
<properties>
<java.version>17</java.version>
<junit.version>5.10.0-M1</junit.version>
<maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.11.0</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
<maven-failsafe-plugin.version>3.0.0</maven-failsafe-plugin.version>
<maven-war-plugin.version>3.3.2</maven-war-plugin.version>
<piranha.distribution>servlet</piranha.distribution>
<piranha.version>23.6.0</piranha.version>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter-api</artifactId>
<version>${junit.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
<version>${junit.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter-params</artifactId>
<version>${junit.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>helloworld</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>cloud.piranha.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>piranha-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${piranha.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>pre-integration-test</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>start</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>post-integration-test</id>
<phase>post-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>stop</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<distribution>${piranha.distribution}</distribution>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
<configuration>
<release>${java.version}</release>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven-failsafe-plugin.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven-war-plugin.version}</version>
<configuration>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Add the Hello World HTML file
Add the helloworld.html file in the src/main/webapp
directory.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<body>
<div>Hello World!</div>
</body>
</html>
Add an integration test
As we want to make sure the application gets tested before we release an integration test is added which will be executed as part of the build.
We'll add the integration test to the src/test/java
directory.
package helloworld;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse.BodyHandlers;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
class HelloWorldIT {
@Test
void testHelloWorldHtml() throws Exception {
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest
.newBuilder(new URI("http://localhost:8080/helloworld/helloworld.html"))
.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, BodyHandlers.ofString());
assertTrue(response.body().contains("Hello World!"));
}
}
Test the application
The application is setup to use JUnit to do integration testing using the Piranha Maven plugin so when you are building the application it will also execute an integration test validating the web application works.
To build and test the application execute the following command:
mvn install
Deploy the application
To deploy your application you will need 2 pieces.
- The Piranha Servlet runtime JAR.
- The WAR file you just produced.
For the WAR file see the target
directory. For the Piranha Servlet
distribution go to Maven Central. And then the following command line will
deploy your application:
java -jar piranha-dist-servlet.jar --war-file helloworld.war
Conclusion
As you can see getting started with Piranha Servlet is easy!