Automatic Property Expansion with Spring Boot
1. Overview In this article, we’ll explore the property expansion mechanism provided by Spring through Maven and Gradle build methods. 2. Maven 2.1. Default Configuration […]
Month: July 2021
Guide to @ConfigurationProperties in Spring Boot
1. Introduction Spring Boot has many useful features including externalized configuration and easy access to properties defined in properties files. An earlier tutorial described various ways in which […]
Properties with Spring and Spring Boot
1. Overview This tutorial will show how to set up and use properties in Spring via Java configuration and @PropertySource. We’ll also see how properties work in Spring […]
Configure a Spring Boot Web Application
1. Overview Spring Boot can do a lot of things; in this tutorial, we’re going to go over a few of the more interesting configuration […]
Spring Boot Actuator
1. Overview In this article, we introduce the Spring Boot Actuator. We’ll cover the basics first, then discuss in detail what’s available in Spring Boot 2.x […]
Recommended Package Structure of a Spring Boot Project
1. Overview When building a new Spring Boot project, there’s a high degree of flexibility on how we can organize our classes. Still, there are […]
Intro to Spring Boot Starters
1. Overview Dependency management is a critical aspects of any complex project. And doing this manually is less than ideal; the more time you spent […]
Spring Boot Annotations
1. Overview Spring Boot made configuring Spring easier with its auto-configuration feature. In this quick tutorial, we’ll explore the annotations from the org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure and org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition packages. 2. @SpringBootApplication We use […]
A Comparison Between Spring and Spring Boot
1. Overview In this tutorial, we’re going to look at the differences between the standard Spring frameworks and Spring Boot. We’ll focus on and discuss […]
Spring Boot Tutorial – Bootstrap a Simple Application
1. Overview Spring Boot is an opinionated addition to the Spring platform, focused on convention over configuration — highly useful for getting started with minimum […]
Spring MVC + Thymeleaf 3.0: New Features
1. Introduction Thymeleaf is a Java template engine for processing and creating HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS and plain text. For an intro to Thymeleaf and Spring, […]
Using a Custom Spring MVC’s Handler Interceptor to Manage Sessions
1. Introduction In this tutorial, we are going to focus on the Spring MVC HandlerInterceptor. More specifically, we will show a more advanced use case for […]
A Quick Guide to Spring MVC Matrix Variables
1. Overview The URI specification RFC 3986 defined URI path parameters as name-value pairs. Matrix variables is a Spring coined term and an alternative implementation for passing […]
Cachable Static Assets with Spring MVC
1. Overview This article focuses on caching static assets (such as Javascript and CSS files) when serving them with Spring Boot and Spring MVC. We’ll […]
Servlet 3 Async Support with Spring MVC and Spring Security
1. Introduction In this quick tutorial, we’re going to focus on the Servlet 3 support for async requests, and how Spring MVC and Spring Security handle […]
Upload and Display Excel Files with Spring MVC
1. Introduction In this article, we will demonstrate how to upload Excel files and display their content in a web page using the Spring MVC framework. 2. Uploading Excel […]
Template Engines for Spring
1. Overview The Spring web framework is built around the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern, which makes it easier to separate concerns in an application. This allows […]
Apache Tiles Integration with Spring MVC
1. Overview Apache Tiles is a free, open source templating framework purely built on the Composite design pattern. A Composite design pattern is a type of structural […]
Introduction to Using FreeMarker in Spring MVC
1. Overview FreeMarker is a Java based template engine from the Apache Software Foundation. Like other template engines, FreeMarker is designed to support HTML web pages […]
Quick Guide to Spring MVC with Velocity
1. Introduction Velocity is a template engine from the Apache Software Foundation that can work with normal text files, SQL, XML, Java code and many other […]
