GeoNetwork

Architecture experiment for GeoNetwork 5 development setting up clean Spring Boot application for Java 21 development.

• GeoNetwork 5: spring boot application using fresh dependencies for Java 21 development
• Database: shared PostgreSQL database
• Elasticsearch: index and search engine
• GeoNetwork 4: maintain functionality during architecture transition, using Java 11 and Jetty / Tomcat environment

Get started

Requirements:

• Java 21 / Maven Development Environment (sdkman recommended)
• PostgreSQL Database
• Elasticsearch
• GeoNetwork 4, which requires Java 11 Enviornment
• (Recommended) Docker and Docker Compose

To run GeoNetwork 5 in dev mode, you first need to run GeoNetwork 4 with shared data base:

1. Run GeoNetwork 4.4 in your favorite way ( see GeoNetwork 4 documentation) and remind the options to connect to the database and Elasticsearch.

   Example Development Environment (with Docker Compose):

   cd docker
   docker compose -f docker-compose-base.yml -f docker-compose-dev.yml up -d
   

   Access GN4: http://localhost:8080/geonetwork/ (login admin/admin)

2. Configure GeoNetwork 5 search application by editing the file config/application.yml.

   • Check the port of Elasticsearch and the database connection settings.

   • Check the index setting:

     indexRecordName: gn-records
     

   The example development environment does not require any configuration changes.

3. Build GeoNetwork 5 with following command:

   mvn clean install
   

4. Run GeoNetwork 5 with the following command:

   cd src/apps/geonetwork
   mvn spring-boot:run
   

   Access GN5: http://localhost:7979/geonetwork (login admin/admin)