Tag Archives: Spring Boot

I have a small Spring boot based application that uses a Postgres database as a datastore. I wanted to document the steps involved in deploying this sample application to Cloud Foundry. Some of the steps are described in the Spring Boot reference guide, however the guides do not sufficiently explain how to integrate with the datastore provided in a cloud ...

SpringBoot…there is a lot of buzz about SpringBoot nowadays. So what is SpringBoot? SpringBoot is a new spring portfolio project which takes opinionated view of building production-ready Spring applications by drastically reducing the amount of configuration required. Spring Boot is taking the convention over configuration style to the next level by registering the default configurations automatically based on the classpath ...

I was planning to write an article about Spring Boot more than a year ago. Finally I have the time and inspiration for this. So prepare yourself for 10 – 15 minutes of high quality Spring tutorial. I’m going to demonstrate Spring Boot basics with Gradle and embedded Tomcat. I use Intellij IDEA instead of Eclipse but this shouldn’t be ...

I’m a fan of Spring Boot and here’s my mongodb example project on Spring Boot. Most of the mongodb example projects are so basic that you won’t go far with them. You can search for plain Spring Data examples but they can get much complex than you’d like. So here’s mine. Here’s the pom I’ll use.         ...

After attending Sam Newman’s microservice talks at Geecon last week I started to think more about what is most likely an essential feature of service-oriented / microservice platforms for monitoring, reporting and diagnostics: correlation ids. Correlation ids allow distributed tracing within complex service oriented platforms, where a single request into the application can often be dealt with by multiple downstream ...

Earlier I had blogged about using Scala with Spring Boot and how the combination just works. There was one issue with the previous approach though – the only way to run the earlier configuration was to build the project into a jar file and run the jar file.                 ./gradlew build java -jar ...

Spring Boot is a great piece of software allowing you to bootstrap Spring application within a few seconds. And it really works. As little configuration as possible to get started. And still possible to change the defaults. Let’s see how easily is to bootstrap Spring MVC with Thymeleaf and Maven and work with it in IntelliJ. Basic setup Spring MVC ...

Spring Boot 1.0 release was recently announced by the Spring Boot team, and was followed by Spring Boot 1.0.1.RELEASE, a bug fix release that also includes a few new features. Spring Boot was created 18 months ago, with a purpose to improve containerless web application architectures. The new release, that is already available in Maven Central and the repo.spring.io repository ...

I had earlier blogged about a way to write a standalone Spring Integration application. Spring Boot makes creating this standalone application much simpler. The simple flow was to poll the USGS service providing information about the earthquake activity around the world and to log this information. The flow described using Spring Integration is the following:           ...