Chapter 1. Introduction to Application Development with Thorntail

Thorntail supports the following architectures:

Different images are supported for different architectures. The example codes in this guide demonstrate the commands for x86_64 architecture. If you are using other architectures, specify the relevant image name in the commands.

Refer to the section Supported Java images for Thorntail for more information about the image names.

Examples are working applications that demonstrate how to build cloud native applications and services. They demonstrate prescriptive architectures, design patterns, tools, and best practices that should be used when you develop your applications. The example applications can be used as templates to create your cloud-native microservices. You can update and redeploy these examples using the deployment process explained in this guide.

The examples implement Microservice patterns such as:

You can use the examples applications as:

Each example application is implemented in one or more runtimes. For example, the REST API Level 0 example is available for the following runtimes:

The subsequent sections explain the example applications implemented for the Thorntail runtime.

You can download and deploy all the example applications on:

Refer to the section Supported Java images for Thorntail for more information about the image names.

Some of the example applications also require other products, such as Red Hat Data Grid to demonstrate the workflows. In this case, you must also change the image names of these products to their relevant IBM Z and IBM Power Systems image names in the YAML file of the example applications.