A developers guide to running Spring Boot applications on Open Liberty

Track: Practices and other tech

Abstract

SpringBoot is a hugely popular framework for writing applications in today’s development landscape. Choosing Open Liberty as your Java application server to run SpringBoot application offers users several advantages over the default runtimes to increase performance, save memory, and stay up to date with the latest and greatest security fixes.

In this talk, you will learn how to run SpringBoot applications on Open Liberty by discussing the following topics:

The basics of Open Liberty and how it works as a Java runtime server.

- How SpringBoot is supported on Open Liberty.
- How to package SpringBoot applications for Open Liberty.
- How to configure a SpringBoot application for Open Liberty.
- How to reduce startup time for SpringBoot applications on Open Liberty with InstantOn support.

Harry Hoots III

Harry is a Software Engineer working as the team lead on the Open Liberty Kernel team and is based at IBM's RTP Laboratory in Durham, NC. He has 25 plus years of experience working in various IBM divisions such as Global Business Services, and the IBM Cloud and Cognitive group. Harry holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. Check out this blog post to learn more about Harry's activities in open source: https://openliberty.io/blog/2021/10/07/HarryHoots_MeetTheTeam.html

Chuck Bridgham

Chuck is the development lead for WebSphere and Open Liberty Projects and is based at IBM’s RTP Laboratory in Durham, NC. Chuck has been involved in open source projects spanning 20 years including pioneering the Eclipse platform, Eclipse Web Tools Project, various Java and Node Tools for Eclipse.