Programming has always been about communicating with machines. However, with the advancement of AI, there is an increasing demand for programming tools that can communicate with humans too. This is where AI Tools, like Github Copilot and ChatGPT come in. This series of posts is designed for programmers who are interested in learning how to […]Continue reading
One of the exceptions that every Java Programmer must have faced is NullPointerException. They are hard to debug and cause unexpected termination of your application. To better handle NullPointerException, Java 8 has introduced the Optional class. In this post, I’ll explain how to use Optional in Java applications. Optional Overview The main benefit of the […]Continue reading
When you work in Enterprise Spring applications, you will often need to establish mappings between your entities. JPA one-to-many mapping is one such example. At the database level, one-to-many mapping means that one row in a table is mapped to multiple rows in another table. In this post, I’ll explain how to implement JPA one-to-many […]Continue reading
Spring Boot Microservices requires authentication of users, and one way is through JSON Web Token (JWT). JWT is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact mechanism for securely transmitting information between parties. In this post, I will explain how to implement JWT authentication in Spring Microservices. JWT Token Overview JWT is of relatively […]Continue reading
Hikari Connection Pool commonly referred to as HikariCP is a very fast light weight Java connection pool. A connection pool is a cache of database connections. A Connection Pool maintains connections that can be reused when future requests to the database are required. In this post, I will explain Hikari Configuration for Spring Boot 2 […]Continue reading
In September 2021, Java 17 was released as the latest LTS (long-term support) replacing Java 11. Now the big question is “What is new in Java 17?” Java 17 has 14 JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEP) items. Out of those, there are 10 new features, 2 feature removals, and deprecation of 2 features. In this post, […]Continue reading
On December 16th, 2021, with the announcement from the Spring Team, the next major release is Spring Framework 6. The whole objective is to cover Spring’s baseline upgrade efforts, in particular requiring JDK 17+ and migrating to the Jakarta EE 9 APIs, So we should be Getting Ready for upgrading to Spring Framework 6. Important […]Continue reading
Spring Web applications and RESTful services contain controllers responsible to process requests and send back responses. At times you might need to perform certain operations on client requests before it reaches the controller. Similarly, you might need to perform operations on responses sent back by controllers to clients. You can achieve this using filters in […]Continue reading
While developing a Spring Boot Application, sometimes we need to run a piece of code at startup. This code can be anything. You might want to log certain information or run some cron jobs or send some notifications. Or you might even want to start the application with seed data in the database. In this […]Continue reading
Distributed Microservices Systems typically comprise a large number of smaller services. These services communicate with each other to perform operations. In order to communicate, one service needs the address of the other service to call. However, service addresses are dynamic in modern microservices systems. For example, if a service is running on one IP and […]Continue reading
