Tag Archives: Spring Boot

“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. Reactive apps allow you to scale better if you’re dealing with lots of streaming data. They’re non-blocking and tend to be more efficient because they’re not tying ...

This guide walks through the process to create a centralized authentication and authorization server with Spring Boot 2, a demo resource server will also be provided. If you’re not familiar with OAuth2 I recommend this read. Pre-req JDK 1.8Text editor or your favorite IDEMaven 3.0+ Implementation Overview For this project we’ll be using Spring Security 5 through Spring Boot. If you’re familiar with ...

Sooner or later, most of the developers who actively work on REST(ful) web services and APIs stumble upon this truly extraterrestrial thing called HATEOAS: Hypertext As The Engine Of Application State. The curiosity of what HATEOAS is and how it relates to REST would eventually lead to discovery of the Richardson Maturity Model which demystifies the industry definitions of REST ...

Not too long ago, a reactive variant of the JDBC driver was released. Known as R2DBC. It allows data to be streamed asynchronously to any endpoints that have subscribed to it. Using a reactive driver like R2DBC together with Spring WebFlux allows you to write a full application that handles receiving and sending of data asynchronously. In this post, we ...

Even though both @ContextConfiguration and @SpringApplicationConfiguration annotations are used along withSpringJUnit4ClassRunner to specify how to load the Spring application context, there is a subtle difference between them. Although @ContextConfiguration does a great job in loading application context it doesn’t take full advantage of Spring Boot features. Spring Boot applications are ultimately loaded by either SpringApplication ( in case of the ...

“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. Developers know that securing web apps can be a pain. Doing it right is tough. The worst part is that “right” is a moving target. Security protocols ...

I was recently migrating an application from Spring Boot 1.5.X to Spring Boot 2.X and saw an issue with overriding Spring Bean definitions. One of the configurations was along these lines in Kotlin: @Configuration class DynamoConfig { @Bean fun dynamoDbAsyncClient(dynamoProperties: DynamoProperties): DynamoDbAsyncClient { ... } @Bean fun dynampoDbSyncClient(dynamoProperties: DynamoProperties): DynamoDbClient { ... } } Now, for a test I wanted ...

“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. Vue is a web framework that’s gotten a lot of attention lately because it’s lean and mean. Its baseline framework cost is around 40K and is known ...

1. Overview Hibernate needs no introduction. It is the most popular ORM out there for Java. Similarly, Spring Boot is the most powerful, and easy to use framework out there for Java. This tutorial isn’t about Hibernate or Spring Boot, there are tons of them out there. We’ll look into some common errors that you may run into when using ...