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Spring Social Twitter Setup The first part of the series dealth with the initial work of consuming the StackExchange REST API in order to retrieve its top questions. This second part will focus on setting up the support necessary to interact with the Twitter REST APIs using the Spring Social… Continue Reading spring_social_twitter_setup
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Convert String to JsonObject with Gson 1. Overview When working with JSON in Java using the Gson library, we have several options at our disposal for converting raw JSON into other classes or data structures that we can work with more easily. For example, we can convert JSON strings to… Continue Reading gson-string-to-jsonobject
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Custom Information in Spring Boot Info Endpoint 1. Overview In this quick article, we’ll have a look at how to customize the Spring Boot Actuators’ /info endpoint. Please refer to this article to learn more about actuators in Boot and how to configure them. 2. Static Properties in /info If… Continue Reading spring-boot-info-actuator-custom
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Embedded Redis Server with Spring Boot Test 1. Overview Spring Data Redis provides an easy way to integrate with Redis instances. However, in some cases, it’s more convenient to use an embedded server than to create an environment with a real server. Therefore, we’ll learn how to set up and… Continue Reading spring-embedded-redis
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Introduction to Spring Security Taglibs 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at Spring Security Taglibs, which provides basic support for accessing security information and applying security constraints in JSPs. 2. Maven Dependencies First of all, let’s add the spring-security-taglibs dependency to our pom.xml: <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId> <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId> <version>5.0.7.RELEASE</version> </dependency>… Continue Reading spring-security-taglibs
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Custom Thread Pools In Java 8 Parallel Streams 1. Overview Java 8 introduced the concept of Streams as an efficient way of carrying out bulk operations on data. And parallel Streams can be obtained in environments that support concurrency. These streams can come with improved performance – at the cost… Continue Reading java-8-parallel-streams-custom-threadpool
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A Reddit Application with Spring This Case Study follows a new author through the creation of a small web application with Spring from the ground up. The app helps users manage their posting to Reddit by scheduling Posts, determining the best times to post, re-trying posts when they’re not immediately… Continue Reading case-study-a-reddit-app-with-spring
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Content Analysis with Apache Tika 1. Overview Apache Tika is a toolkit for extracting content and metadata from various types of documents, such as Word, Excel, and PDF or even multimedia files like JPEG and MP4. All text-based and multimedia files can be parsed using a common interface, making Tika… Continue Reading apache-tika
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Example of Downloading File in a Servlet 1. Overview A common feature of web applications is the ability to download files. In this tutorial, we’ll cover a simple example of creating a downloadable file and serving it from a Java Servlet application. The file we are using will be from… Continue Reading servlet-download-file
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Decode an OkHttp JSON Response 1. Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll explore several techniques for decoding a JSON response while using OkHttp. 2. OkHttp Response OkHttp is an HTTP client for Java and Android with features like transparent handling of GZIP, response caching, and recovery from network problems. In spite… Continue Reading okhttp-json-response
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