Configure a Spring Boot Project

The CIB seven Spring Boot Application created in previous step uses the default and best practice configuration, embedded in a starter. There are several ways to customize or override the configuration. The easiest is to provide a set of parameters in the application.yaml (or application.properties) file. The full list of supported configuration parameters can be found here.

Customize Configuration

Let’s create an application.yaml file in the src/main/resources folder with the following content:

camunda.bpm:
  admin-user:
    id: demo
    password: demo
    firstName: Demo
  filter:
    create: All tasks
  run:
    auth:
      enabled: true
      authentication: composite

spring:
  config:
    import:
      - optional:classpath:cibseven-webclient.properties

cibseven:
  webclient:
    services:
      basePath: /webapp/services/v1
    # Engine rest
    engineRest:
      url: http://localhost:8080

This configuration will result in the following:

1. Admin user “demo” with the provided password and first name will be created.
2. Default filter with the name “All tasks” will be created for Tasklist.
3. Composite authentication will be enabled.
4. Properties from the cibseven-webclient.properties configuration file will be imported.
5. The base path for services will be defined so that Spring Boot can correctly map the endpoints.
6. The Engine REST URL will be set to http://localhost:8080

Additionaly, let’s create a cibseven-webclient.properties file in the same directory as application.yaml with the following content:

# do not use this jwtSecret value in production
cibseven.webclient.authentication.jwtSecret=RtURHZ7SQYfLoX902wcjlvduW2qe9g0bjMUczmffjiTjzU9phbv3mK54zHMqeGK6cqgoEBTIUE6RqwvemSqbpD40qUPXVRElvDHGhn4OAEfjeEP2ANah8GJejSA08E820mForcQHBmediqg2DzIrxnDXyf2

The jwtSecret property enables secure communication between the CIB seven web application and the engine using JWT-based authentication.

Build and Run

Now you can rebuild and rerun the application. Make sure to run mvn clean before running mvn install again.

When you open http://localhost:8080/ in your browser, you will no longer be prompted to create an admin user. Instead, you’ll be asked to log in with a username and password.

You can use “demo/demo” — the credentials configured earlier — to access the CIB seven web applications. After you logged in, you can go to Tasklist and see that a filter named “All tasks” was created, though it does not contain any tasks so far.

git clone https://github.com/cibseven/cibseven-get-started-spring-boot.git

git checkout -f Step-2