A Spring Boot RESTful service is typically divided into three layers: Repository, Service, and Controller. This layering helps to segregate the RESTful application responsibilities and enabling loose coupling between the objects. When you develop a layered RESTful application, you will also need to test the different layers. In this post, I will discuss testing Spring […]Continue reading
In Java 8 lambda expressions were added to make Java code more concise and readable. Lambda expressions are similar to methods. However, unlike other methods, lambda expressions do not need a name. You can implement a lambda expression right in the body of a method. If you are new to lambda expressions I suggest you […]Continue reading
Java SE 12 introduces switch expressions, which like all expressions evaluate to a single value, that you can use as statements. Java 12, brings improvement to the switch statement with new capabilities. Some of the key capabilities are arrow case labels, multiple case statements, and return values. In this post, I’ll explain the new switch […]Continue reading
Introduction In this article, we will look at Spring Framework’s support of immutable property binding. We described Spring external configuration in this article and also provided a more detailed article about the Java bean properties binding. In this article, we will demonstrate constructor binding using the merchant account configuration in this article. Constructor binding enables […]Continue reading
Introduction In this article, we explained why we should externalise our application configuration data. We also provided configuration examples that use various methods supported by Spring Boot. Within these methods was the Java bean properties binding but it was less detailed. Therefore in this article, we are going to give more details about using the […]Continue reading
Java 8 introduced a new date and time API defined inside java.time package. The key date and time classes defined in this package are LocalDateTime, LocalDateTime, and OffsetDateTime. OffsetDateTime represents a date-time with an offset. This class stores all date and time fields, to a precision of nanoseconds, as well as the offset from UTC/Greenwich. […]Continue reading
Java 8 introduced a new date and time API defined inside java.time package. The key date and time classes defined in this package are LocalDateTime, ZonedDateTime, and OffsetDateTime. OffsetDateTime represents a date-time with an offset. This class stores all date and time fields, to a precision of nanoseconds, as well as the offset from UTC/Greenwich. For […]Continue reading
In this post, we are going to talk about OpenFeign which is a declarative REST client that we can use in our Spring Boot applications. Feign helps us a lot when writing web service clients, allowing us to use several helpful annotations to create integrations. Originally Netflix developed Feign, but as they stopped supporting the […]Continue reading
jEnv is a command line to that for Linux and OS X that makes setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable simple. Windows users can use jEnv from a Linux subsystem. Installation To install jEnv on Linux or OS X will first clone the git repository to our home directory using this command: $ git clone https://github.com/gcuisinier/jenv.git […]Continue reading
Series Introduction In this short series, we will look at how we can integrate the Spring Boot application with HashiCorp Consul. Consul is a service that allows us to connect and secure services across platforms and clouds. It has many usages, such as service discovery, service mesh, or key-value store. Introduction In the first part […]Continue reading
