Tag Archives: Spring Boot

I’ve always wanted to try to see if I could use Rails’ jQuery UJS in a Spring Boot project. The UJS in jquery-ujs stands for unobtrusive JavaScript. I really like how UJS wires event handlers to eligible DOM elements marked with HTML5 data-* attributes. I find myself wanting to see more of this approach being used in Spring Boot web ...

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“I love writing authentication and authorization code.” ~ No Java Developer Ever. Tired of building the same login screens over and over? Try the Okta API for hosted authentication, authorization, and multi-factor auth. In this post, you’re going to work through various options for implementing a login feature using Spring Boot 2.1. You’ll start with the most simple, basic auth, ...

“I love writing authentication and authorization code.” ~ No Java Developer Ever. Tired of building the same login screens over and over? Try the Okta API for hosted authentication, authorization, and multi-factor auth. If you’ve been a Java developer for more than 15 years, you probably remember when there were a plethora of Java web frameworks. It started with Struts ...

In this quick tutorial, we’ll learn how to use a YAML file to configure properties of a Spring Boot application. What is YAML File? Instead of having an application.properties in Spring, we can use the application.yml as our configuration file. YAML is a superset of JSON and we can use it for configuring data. The YAML files are more human-readable, especially ...

“I love writing authentication and authorization code.” ~ No Java Developer Ever. Tired of building the same login screens over and over? Try the Okta API for hosted authentication, authorization, and multi-factor auth. If you’ve been a Java developer for more than 15 years, you probably remember when there were a plethora of Java web frameworks. It started with Struts ...

When running a Spring Boot application, we get a system exit code of 0, when everything goes fine.  For any unhandled exceptions, the application returns with an exit code 1. It’s possible for us to return a custom exit code from our Spring Boot application. In this tutorial, we’ll learn to do so. Implementing ExitCodeGenerator: Let’s start by creating a ...

Caching is key for performance of nearly every application. Distributed caching is sometimes needed, but not always. In many cases a local cache would work just fine and there’s no need for the overhead and complexity of the distributed cache. So, in many applications, including plain Spring and Spring Boot, you can use @Cacheable on any method and its result ...

Spring’s WebClient provides a non-blocking client for making service to service calls.Hystrix, though now in a maintenance mode, has been used for protecting service to service calls by preventing cascading failures, providing circuit breakers for calls to slow or faulty upstream services. In this post, I will be exploring how Spring Cloud provides a newer functional approach to wrapping a ...