Tag Archives: Spring Boot

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:           ...

Spring Boot is relatively new project from Spring.io. Its aim is to simplify creating new Spring Framework based projects and unify their configuration by applying some conventions. This approach convention over configuration is already successfully applied in most of so called modern web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Django or Play! Framework. On the official website we can find primary ...

Spring-boot  provides a quick way to create a Spring based application. There are some very compelling reasons to consider spring-boot for your next project: Reason 1 : Simpler Dependency management using spring-boot starter projects. Consider the effort required to start up a CRUD web application using Spring-boot, assuming that the CRUD is implemented using a h2 database with Spring-Data providing ...