What are Structured Outputs? Using Structured Outputs is an important aspect when interacting with LLMs programmatically. LLMs, by their nature, generate unstructured output. The unstructured output does not work well with programming languages which need structure to understand the data. Through prompting techniques, you can direct the LLM to create a structured output. The format […]Continue reading
A hidden feature of Spring AI is the support of String Templates, aka StringTemplates. StringTemplate is a lightweight Java template engine. It is simple, and easy to use. StringTemplate is a stable project, established in 2007 and now on its 4 major release. Here is an example from the homepage of the Stringtemplate website. On […]Continue reading
In this post, I’ll explain how to work with resources in Spring using ResourceLoader. We’ll begin with a brief introduction about resources. Next, we’ll look at the Resource interface and some of its important methods. Finally, we’ll go through its implementations. Introduction: Working With Resources In Spring via ResourceLoader Frequently, we need to read external resources […]Continue reading
The Java Programming language provided support for Annotations from Java 5.0. Leading Java frameworks were quick to adopt annotations and the Spring Framework started using annotations from the release 2.5. Due to the way they are defined, annotations provide a lot of context in their declaration. Prior to annotations, the behavior of the Spring Framework […]Continue reading
@RequestMapping is one of the most common annotation used in Spring Web applications. This annotation maps HTTP requests to handler methods of MVC and REST controllers. In this post, you’ll see how versatile the @RequestMapping annotation is when used to map Spring MVC controller methods. Request Mapping Basics In Spring MVC applications, the RequestDispatcher (Front Controller […]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
In the 1.3.0 release of Spring Boot and new module is available called Spring Boot Developer Tools. This new Spring Boot module is aimed at improving developer productivity in building Spring Web Applications. When you’re developing a web application in Java, or really any programming language, a common workflow is to code, compile, deploy, and then […]Continue reading
This is the 4th part of my tutorial series on building a web application using Spring Boot. In the last part of the series, we looked at setting up Spring Data JPA for database persistence. In the second part of the series, we looked at using Thymeleaf for building the web pages. And we started […]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
