Despite MicroProfile’s hype, KumuluzEE already offers service discovery, registration, and configuration support for microservices in a Java EE environment.
Enterprise Java seems to be a step back from the others when it comes to microservices architecture. Some weeks ago, I took a part in Code Europe – the programming conference in Warsaw. One of the speakers was Ivar Grimstad, who was talking about MicroProfile – an open initiative for optimizing Enterprise Java for a microservices architecture. This idea is very interesting, but at the moment, it is rather at the beginning of the road.
However, while I was reading about the microprofile initiative, I came across information about JavaEE framework developed by Slovenian company – KumuluzEE. The solution seemed to be interesting enough that I decided to take a closer look at it. Well, we can read on the website that KumuluzEE is the Java Duke’s Choice Award Winner, so there is still a hope for JavaEE and microservices
We should also add some KumuluzEE dependencies to the Maven pom.xml .
To enable service registration, we should add one additional dependency to our pom.xml. I chose Consul as a registration and discovery server, but you can also use etcd (kumuluzee-discovery-consul) .
Here’s the account microservice’s main class. As you probably guess, the annotation @RegisterService enables registration on the server.
We start the application by running:
java -cp target/classes; target/dependency/* com.kumuluz.ee. EeApplication
There is one pretty cool thing about discovery with KumuluzEE. As you can see in the @DiscoverService, we can specify a version and environment for account-service instance. The version and environment for the microservice is read automatically from the config.yml during registration in discovery server. So, we can maintain many versions of a single microservice and freely invoke them from other microservices. Requests are automatically load balanced between all microservice match conditions from the annotation @ServiceDiscovery.
To enable KumuluzEE Config, include the Consul implementation by adding the following dependency to your pom.xml .
I do not use a Consul agent running on the localhost, so I need to override some properties in config.yml. I also defined one configuration property, blacklist:
Here’s the class that loads the configuration properties and enables dynamic updates on any change in the configuration source by declaring @ConfigValue (watch = true) on a property.
We use the configuration property blacklist in the resource class for filtering all accounts by blacklisted ids.
environments/dev/services/account-service/1.0.0/config/rest-config/blacklist
Creating microservices with KumuluzEE is pretty easy. I showed you the main capabilities of this framework. KumulezEE has also modules for circuit breakers with Hystrix, streaming with Apache Kafka, and security with OAuth2/OpenID. I will keep a close eye on this library, and I hope it will continue to be developed.
