Overview

The EFP Registry Server

• is a core application providing EFP data to other systems
• accesses data or allows to modify data via the Internet providing web-services
• runs as a java web server

How to use the server

• the server is situated in the directory {efp-root}/efpRegistryServer/trunk
• you will need to start the server as a web application
  • the easiest way is to type following maven command
    

    
    mvn tomcat:run
    

  • the server will start on address
    

    
     http://localhost:8080/efpRegistryServer
    

  • you may put the address to the browser and see that the server is running
• a manipulation with data is currently accessible only via web-services.
  • you may list the web-services on the address
    

    
    http://localhost:8080/efpRegistryServer/ws/
    

• Important: Each EFP module working with server, however, does not need to call web-services directly
  • Each module contains a dependency to the EFP Registry Client module.
  • This module contains an interface EfpClient with an implementation EfpClientImpl.
  • Each module calls methods of the EfpClient interface to access data.
  • Benefit of this solution is that EfpClient provides directly EfpTypes rather than DTO objects transfered via web-services
  • Note1: the file ws.properties sets the adress of the server – it must be changed in case the server is moved to another location
  • Note2: you may study a set of JUnit test in the EfpClientTest class. It provides you with examples of usage of the EfpClient.

Technical infrastructure

The server

• uses Spring framework to design the DAO + Services pattern
  • DAO (Data acces objects) are classes in package dao and dao.impl
  • Services (business logic) are classes in package service and service.impl
• Uses Hibernate to generate database from java classes
  • java classes are stored in package entities
  • the database is generated from these classes
  • currently, for development purposes, we use only in memory database – the database is created on the server start and deleted on the server stop