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Quick Start

Axon provides a Quick Start Toolkit to familarize yourself with the setup required for Axon Framework and Axon Server SE (Standard Edition).

The only pre-requisite to run the Quick Start is to have a Java 8+ JRE in your system.

Quick Start Toolkit Download

The Quick Start Toolkit package is available for download at the following location -> https://axoniq.io/download.

This package contains,

  • Axon Framework Binaries
  • Axon Server Standard Edition
  • Gift card sample application - Demo application designed to show various aspects of the platform
  • Getting started guide

Running the Quick Start (Java 9+)

  1. Unzip AxonQuickStart-VERSION.zip
  2. Run the Axon Server: $ java -jar AxonServer/axonserver-VERSION.jar
  3. Axon Server web dashboard should be available here http://localhost:8024/
  4. Run the demo application: $ cd giftcard-demo && ./mvnw spring-boot:run
  5. Demo application should be available here http://localhost:8080/
  6. Explore the README.md

Running the Quick Start on Java 8

The Quick Start Demo app can also run on Java 8 with a small change in the pom.xml file:

  1. From the extracted folder, open giftcard-demo\pom.xml with your favourite editor
  2. Replace <java.version>11</java.version> occurrency with <java.version>1.8</java.version>
  3. Find the maven-compiler-plugin plugin block
  4. Replace <release>${java.version}</release> with <source>${java.version}</source> <target>${java.version}</target>
  5. Run the demo application: $ cd giftcard-demo && ./mvnw spring-boot:run

Resources

Axon Framework - Video Tutorials

The following 5-part video tutorial offers a quick start guided path to understand Axon Framework.

Tutorial Name Purpose
Part - 1 Structure of an Axon Framework Application
Part - 2 Core API development
Part - 3 Command Model of the Application
Part - 4 Query Model of the Application
Part - 5 Connecting the UI

Axon Server

This blog is a good starting point to get familiarized with Axon Server - https://axoniq.io/blog-overview/running-axon-server#0

Fast Lane Training

AxonIQ provides a free to view fast lane online training which will bring you up to speed on topics such as DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing and other concepts related to the Axon stack.

Full Training

AxonIQ provides a fully online Axon training program which provides a more hands-on approach complete with instructor-led content and labs. This program is intended to deepen your knowledge concerning the concepts of event-driven microservices, DDD, CQRS and how Axon supports this journey.