Camunda webapp spring boot reactive

How to integrate Camunda webapp to run on embedded NettyWebServer and not with embedded Tomcat with spring boot reactive?

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@Wefa in build.gradle file you can configure like this:

Add NettyServer dependency:
compile group: 'io.netty', name: 'netty-all', version: '4.0.4.Final'

configurations {
    compile.exclude module: 'spring-boot-starter-tomcat'
    compile.exclude group: 'org.apache.tomcat'
}

If you are using spring web module:

compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'){
        exclude module:'spring-boot-starter-tomcat'
    }

Thanks @aravindhrs for your reply. I have exluded Tomcat but I’m facing a servlet issue (from webapp package) since netty is based on reactive streams. Is there a possibility to combine both : stream & webapp interfaces ?

@wefa can you provide the stacktrace?

To clarify more the problem, webapp camunda is based on springMVC (tomcat), in the other hand my app is based on webFlux (netty). Adding the camunda package to spring boot will force automatically the springMVC mode. I wonder if there is a way to activate the camunda-bpm-spring-boot-starter-webapp on reactive mode like using netty with servlet. Should I rewite the routes?

@aravindhrs this is the stacktrace
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to introspect Class [org.camunda.bpm.spring.boot.starter.webapp.CamundaBpmWebappAutoConfiguration] from ClassLoader [sun.mis
at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.getDeclaredMethods(ReflectionUtils.java:686)
at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.doWithMethods(ReflectionUtils.java:583)
at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.doWithMethods(ReflectionUtils.java:568)
at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.getUniqueDeclaredMethods(ReflectionUtils.java:626)
at java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap.computeIfAbsent(ConcurrentHashMap.java:1660)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.getTypeForFactoryMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:721)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.determineTargetType(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:662)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.predictBeanType(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:630)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.isFactoryBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1518)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doGetBeanNamesForType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:507)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanNamesForType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:477)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeansOfType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:598)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeansOfType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:590)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBeansOfType(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1204)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getExitCodeFromMappedException(SpringApplication.java:905)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getExitCodeFromException(SpringApplication.java:891)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.handleExitCode(SpringApplication.java:877)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.handleRunFailure(SpringApplication.java:826)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:327)
at com.orange.myportal.back.infra.Application.main(Application.java:12)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/Filter
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:335)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1975)
at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.getDeclaredMethods(ReflectionUtils.java:668)
… 19 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.Filter
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:335)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
… 35 common frames omitted

After adding compile (“javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.1.0”)

org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start web server; nested exception is org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Un
ationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean.
at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.onRefresh(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:157)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:540)
at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.refresh(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:142)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:775)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:397)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:316)
at com.orange.myportal.back.infra.Application.main(Application.java:12)
Caused by: org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException: Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean.
at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.getWebServerFactory(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:206)
at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.createWebServer(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:180)
at org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.context.ServletWebServerApplicationContext.onRefresh(ServletWebServerApplicationContext.java:154)
… 6 common frames omitted