Tag Archives: Spring Boot

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. ...

After a short introduction to configuration meta-data and covering the basics in my previous post called Pimp your config with configuration meta-data in Spring Boot, it is time to take a look at how to take this one step further and further customize the configuration. In this post, I plan to present deprecation of a configuration property and discuss various value ...

Integration tests can be slow and unreliable because they depend on too many components in the system. Up to a certain point, this is unavoidable: integration tests are here to validate how each part of your system plays with other internal or external components. We can, however, improve some integration tests by only spinning up the required dependencies, instead of ...

Docker here, Docker there, I see Dockers everywhere In this post I will describe process of migrating Spring Boot application to Docker. We will start with modifying build file, then we will create Dockerfile so it could be run locally. Finally we will publish our image in DockerHub. Introduction A few months ago I have started new personal project called ...