Spring Data project provides integration for most of the popular databases around. I have already written few posts to configure Spring Boot to use Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL – all RDBMS widely used in the enterprise. Recently, we’ve seen a rise in popularity of NoSQL databases. MongoDB has rapidly gained popularity in the enterprise and the […]Continue reading
This is the fifth part of my tutorial series on building a Spring Boot Web Application. We started off in the first part looking at using the Spring Initializr to start our Spring Boot project. In part 2, we configured Spring MVC and ThymeLeaf templates to display a basic web page. This was followed by […]Continue reading
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 endpoint, which is available at the ‘/info’ url from […]Continue reading
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 showed how to test a Spring Data JPA […]Continue reading
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 host OS. Thus your application works like it […]Continue reading
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 dependencies on Jackson Core and Annotation. Therefore, adding […]Continue reading
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 option you can use for Spring Boot configuration. […]Continue reading
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: An Enterprise Logging Framework. In a series of […]Continue reading
Similar to accompanying application development activities, such as unit testing and documentation, logging is an integral part of any enterprise application. And Spring Boot applications are no different. Through logging, you get to see what the Spring Boot application code is really doing during monitoring, troubleshooting, and debugging. Spring Boot makes using a logging framework […]Continue reading
Samy is my Hero A few months ago Tim Ferriss interviewed Samy Kamkar on his podcast. Samy’s large claim to fame is being the author of the MySpace Samy worm. This is a worm that infected over a million MySpace accounts in just 20 hours. MySpace actually shut down because of the worm. Hearing Samy’s […]Continue reading
