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
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
