Tag Archives: Spring Boot

MongoDB aggregation framework is designed for grouping documents and transforming them into an aggregated result. The aggregation query consists in defining several stages that will be executed in a pipeline. If you are interested in more in-depth details about the framework, then mongodb docs are a good point to start. The point of this post is to write a web ...

I am very thankful for tools like yeoman which provide a very quick way to combine different javascript libraries together into a coherent application. Yeoman provides the UI tier, if you needed to develop the services tier and a web layer for the static assets a good way to package it is to use Spring Boot. I know there are ...

MyBatis is a SQL Mapping framework with support for custom SQL, stored procedures and advanced mappings. SpringBoot doesn’t provide official support for MyBatis integration, but MyBatis community built a SpringBoot starter for MyBatis. You can read about the SpringBoot MyBatis Starter release announcement at http://blog.mybatis.org/2015/11/mybatis-spring-boot-released.html and you can explore the source code on GitHub https://github.com/mybatis/mybatis-spring-boot. Create a SpringBoot Maven project ...

In my previous article SpringBoot : Working with MyBatis  we have learned how to use SpringBoot MyBatis Starter to quickly get up and running with Spring and MyBatis. In this article we are going to learn about how to use SpringBoot JOOQ Starter. JOOQ (Java Object Oriented Querying) is a persistence framework which embraces SQL. JOOQ provides the following features: Building ...

Spring provides a nice abstraction on top of JDBC API using JdbcTemplate and also provides great transaction management capabilities using annotation based approach. First let’s take a quick look at how we generally use Spring’s JdbcTemplate (without SpringBoot) by registering DataSource, TransactionManager and JdbcTemplate beans and optionally we can register DataSourceInitializer bean to initialize our database. @Configuration @ComponentScan @EnableTransactionManagement @PropertySource(value ...

In my previous post Why SpringBoot? we have looked at how to create a SpringBoot application. But you may or may not understand what is going on behind the scenes. You may want to understand the magic behind the SpringBoot’s AutoConfiguration. But before that you should know about Spring’s @Conditional feature based on which all the SpringBoot’s AutoConfiguration magic depends. ...

lication using Spring MSpring is a very popular Java based framework for building web and enterprise applications. Unlike many other frameworks which focuses on only one area, Spring framework provides a wide verity of features addressing the modern business needs via its portfolio projects. Spring framework provides flexibility to configure the beans in multiple ways such as XML, Annotations and ...

Recently I was working on a proof-of-concept web application that I wanted to deploy to a public cloud for a quick demo. I decided to use Amazon as I already had experience with it. Amazon offers several different ways to deploy a Java web application. Amazon EC2 EC2 gives us the flexibility to install and configure whatever we want to on the box. This is a very flexible solution for ...

A while back I had tried out a small Spring Boot  based sample with Scala as the language and found that the combination works out quite nicely – no big surprises there actually as Scala programs ultimately run in the JVM. I have now updated the sample with the latest version of Spring Boot and some of the supporting libraries. ...