Logging in Spring Boot
1. Overview In this short tutorial, we’re going to explore the main logging options available in Spring Boot. Deeper information about Logback is available in A […]
Spring Boot
Quick Guide to @RestClientTest in Spring Boot
1. Introduction This article is a quick introduction to the @RestClientTest annotation. The new annotation helps simplify and speed up the testing of REST clients in your […]
Exploring the Spring Boot TestRestTemplate
1. Overview This article explores the Spring Boot TestRestTemplate. It can be treated as a follow-up of The Guide to RestTemplate, which we firmly recommend to read […]
Testing in Spring Boot
1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll have a look at writing tests using the framework support in Spring Boot. We’ll cover unit tests that can run in […]
Using Custom Banners in Spring Boot
1. Overview By default, Spring Boot comes with a banner which shows up as soon as the application starts. In this article, we’ll learn how […]
Spring Boot: Customize Whitelabel Error Page
1. Overview In this article, we’re going to look at how to disable and customize the default error page for a Spring Boot application as proper error […]
Spring Boot Change Context Path
1. Overview Spring Boot, by default, serves content on the root context path (“/”). And while, usually, it’s a good idea to prefer convention over configuration, there […]
How to Change the Default Port in Spring Boot
1. Overview Spring Boot provides sensible defaults for many configuration properties. But we sometimes need to customize these with our case-specific values. And a common […]
How to Define a Spring Boot Filter?
1. Overview In this quick tutorial, we’ll explore how to define custom filters and specify their invocation order with the help of Spring Boot. 2. […]
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 […]
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 Boot Security Auto-Configuration
1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll have a look at Spring Boot’s opinionated approach to security. Simply put, we’re going to focus on the default […]
