GWAN as embeded server for spring boot

Question

not sure if this is possible but was wondering if its possible to embed GWAN in spring boot app (like tomcat/jetty etc.) are. and how so?

Answer 1

As far as the Spring Boot documentation tells, the requirements are to package your G-WAN application as a jar (zip) file, and install and configure Spring plugins to connect the dots.

One of them, Gradle, takes 50.5 MB to let you use several programming languages: "Gradle makes the impossible possible, the possible easy and the easy elegant."

G-WAN delivers even more language mix in 200 KB of code. G-WAN works without configuration files, nor it needs any war archives to be built, and deployed each time you edit the code of a Java G-WAN script. G-WAN's philosophy is real-time "edit & play".

With some adjustments, it will be possible to use G-WAN with in a Spring Boot application, but thats' like trying to attach a lorry trailer to a formula one: are the expected gains worth the exercise?

If you see advantages at adding this much code, configuration and maintenance overhead to G-WAN, could you please try to enumerate them?

If you are an advanced Spring developer and you still believe that there's value in this proposition, we will help you by adapting G-WAN wherever needed, providing you or other Spring experts can tell what must be done.