In the first part of this tutorial series on creating a web application using Spring Boot, I showed how to use Spring Initializr to create the Maven project we’re using in this example. In the second part of the tutorial series, I showed you how to configure Spring MVC and ThymeLeaf templates to display a basic […]Continue reading
In the first part of this tutorial series for building a web application using Spring Boot, we looked at creating our Spring project using the Spring Initializr. This handy tool gave us a Spring project to work with, jump starting our development effort by creating the project structure and Maven dependencies for us. In this […]Continue reading
Spring Boot – Making Spring Fun Again I’ve been playing around with Spring Boot again and really like what The Spring Team has been doing. Spring Boot is making Spring fun again. I haven’t had this much pleasure developing Spring Applications since I started learning Grails. One of the things I loved about the Grails framework […]Continue reading
Unit testing is the first level of testing software where you write test code that executes a specific functionality in the code to be tested. In most cases, you as a programmer are responsible to deliver unit tested code. The objective is to check if the unit of the software, for example a public method […]Continue reading
H2 Database Console Frequently when developing Spring based applications, you will use the H2 in memory database during your development process. It’s light, fast, and easy to use. It generally does a great job of emulating other RDBMs which you see more frequently for production use (ie, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres). When developing Spring Applications, its […]Continue reading
One of the things I love about the Grails environment is that it comes with a handy bootstrap.groovy file. This will run at startup of the Spring container. I frequently use this to setup expected data, or to create test data for integration / functional tests. It can be a very convenient way to seed […]Continue reading
You will find a greater need for Integration tests as your testing requirements become more complex when you’re supporting enterprise application development using the Spring Framework. Sometimes, allowing Spring to manage the beans makes your testing easier, sometimes you want to test parts of your Spring Configuration, sometimes you’ll need to wire in a Mock component for […]Continue reading
Polyglot Programming Is the practice of programming in multiple programming languages. According to Wikipedia it is – In computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages, which performs the same operations or output independent of the programming language used to compile or interpret it. In […]Continue reading
This past week I had a real world use case for using Spring Integration Futures. I was looking into optimizing the checkout experience for a large ecommerce website. Consider what happens in a large scale website when an order is submitted. Typically, you will see a process something like: Validate the place order form information […]Continue reading
Object-oriented hierarchy may seem like a simple concept to grasp, since there are so many examples in life to illustrate it. This is not completely wrong. The basic idea behind object-oriented programming is simple. However, the problem is that there are certain details, finesses and tricky situations, that may not be obvious but demand a […]Continue reading
