@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
An exciting feature in Spring Framework 5 is the new Web Reactive framework for allows reactive web applications. Reactive programming is about developing systems that are fully reactive and non-blocking. Such systems are suitable for event-loop style processing that can scale with a small number of threads. Spring Framework 5 embraces Reactive Streams to enable […]Continue reading
This week one of my students in my Spring Core course ran into an issue how Spring was performing dependency inject. By default, the Spring Framework will perform dependency injection by type. This generally works fine, since you often will only have one bean in the Spring context for a given type. But this is […]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
The latest TIOBE index has Java language moving strongly into the #1 programming language for January 2016. If you’re not familiar with the TIOBE Index, it’s an index that looks at searches on the major search engines, blogs, forums, and Youtube (Did you know Youtube is now the second biggest search engine?) The “Popularity of […]Continue reading
Embedded JPA Entities are nothing new to the JPA standard. By defining Embedded JPA Entities, you can define a common data type for your application. Unlike regular JPA Entities which generally follow a table per entity mapping strategy. Embedded JPA Entities are stored as additional columns in the underlying relational database table. If you’re using […]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
At the heart of the Spring Framework is its support of dependency injection through its Inversion of Control container. In this video, I look at using some of the advanced autowire features of Spring. @Primary By default, Spring will autowire by type. When you have more than one Spring Bean of a given type, you can […]Continue reading
I was recently asked on my Facebook page, “How do I become a Java Web Developer?” There is really no simple answer for this question. There are many facets to becoming a Java web developer. I’ve encountered Java developers who were good front end developers, or good backend developers. By ‘front end’, I mean more of […]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
