Last Updated on October 21, 2024 by jt In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple years, Spring Boot Actuator is an awesome set of tools for monitoring and managing your Spring Boot applications. Spring Boot Actuator exposes information via ‘endpoints’. One of the Spring Boot Actuator endpoints is an information […]Continue reading
Last Updated on June 24, 2019 by Simanta In my earlier Integration Testing with Spring and JUnit post, I discussed how to test a service bean facade with JUnit. I also posted a video, titled Testing Spring with JUnit on YouTube. In post, Spring Boot Web Application – Part 3 – Spring Data JPA, I […]Continue reading
Last Updated on October 21, 2024 by jt Containers based deployments are rapidly gaining popularity in the enterprise. One of the more popular container solutions is Docker. Many view containers as virtual machines. They’re not. Well, kind of not. A container is a virtual walled environment for your application. It’s literally a ‘container’ inside the […]Continue reading
Last Updated on June 3, 2019 by Simanta I’ve been playing with Docker a lot recently to deploy Spring Boot applications. Docker is very cool. I’ve been learning a lot about it. This is my unofficial Docker Cheatsheet. Use with caution! Got any tips and tricks? Comment below, and I’ll try to update this. List all […]Continue reading
Last Updated on May 11, 2019 by jt This week, I had a student ask me how they could use a Java function to access the database from a Thymeleaf template. Thymeleaf is a modern templating engine. And accessing the database directly from Thymeleaf is certainly something you could do. But is it really something […]Continue reading
Last Updated on October 21, 2024 by jt It’s not uncommon for computers to need to communicate with each other. In the early days, this was done with simple string messages. Which was problematic. There was no standard language. XML evolved to address this and provides a very structured way of sharing data between systems. […]Continue reading
Last Updated on October 21, 2024 by jt Recently while working with Jackson within a Spring Boot project, I encountered an issue I’d like to share with you. Jackson is currently the leading option for parsing JSON in Java. The Jackson library is composed of three components: Jackson Databind, Core, and Annotation. Jackson Databind has internal […]Continue reading
Last Updated on October 21, 2024 by jt When it comes to logging in enterprise applications, logback makes an excellent choice – it’s simple and fast, has powerful configuration options, and comes with a small memory footprint. I have introduced logback in my introductory post, Logback Introduction: An Enterprise Logging Framework. YAML is just one […]Continue reading
Last Updated on October 18, 2024 by jt In this post we will explore using Spring Boot’s default logging framework, Logback. Logback makes an excellent logging framework for enterprise applications. It’s fast, and has simple but powerful configuration options, and comes with a small memory footprint. I introduced logback in my introductory post, Logback Introduction: […]Continue reading
Last Updated on October 21, 2024 by jt Logback is designed to be faster and have a smaller memory footprint than the other logging frameworks around. If you are new to Logback, you should checkout my introductory post on Logback: Logback Introduction: An Enterprise Logging Framework. Logback supports configuration through XML and Groovy. I explained […]Continue reading
