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Logging in Spring Boot 1. Overview In this short tutorial, we’re going to explore the main logging options available in Spring Boot. Deeper information about Logback is available in A Guide To Logback, while Log4j2 is introduced in Intro to Log4j2 – Appenders, Layouts and Filters. Further reading: Setting the… Continue Reading spring-boot-logging
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Spring Boot Annotations 1. Overview Spring Boot made configuring Spring easier with its auto-configuration feature. In this quick tutorial, we’ll explore the annotations from the org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure and org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition packages. 2. @SpringBootApplication We use this annotation to mark the main class of a Spring Boot application: @SpringBootApplication class VehicleFactoryApplication { public… Continue Reading spring-boot-annotations
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Intro to Spring Boot Starters 1. Overview Dependency management is a critical aspects of any complex project. And doing this manually is less than ideal; the more time you spent on it the less time you have on the other important aspects of the project. Spring Boot starters were built… Continue Reading spring-boot-starters
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Guide to @ConfigurationProperties in Spring Boot 1. Introduction One handy feature of Spring Boot is externalized configuration and easy access to properties defined in properties files. An earlier article described various ways in which this can be done. We are now going to explore the @ConfigurationProperties annotation in greater detail.… Continue Reading configuration-properties-in-spring-boot
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Testing in Spring Boot 1. Overview In this article, we’ll have a look at writing tests using the framework support in Spring Boot. We’ll cover unit tests that can run in isolation as well as integration tests that will bootstrap Spring context before executing tests. If you are new to… Continue Reading spring-boot-testing
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Configure a Spring Boot Web Application 1. Overview Spring Boot can do a lot of things; in this tutorial, we’re going to go over a few of the more interesting configuration options in Boot. Further reading: Migrating from Spring to Spring Boot See how to properly migrate from a Spring… Continue Reading spring-boot-application-configuration
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Migrating from Spring to Spring Boot 1. Overview In this article, we’re going to take a look at how we can migrate an existing Spring Framework application to a Spring Boot application. Spring Boot is not intended to replace Spring, but to make working with it faster and easier. As… Continue Reading spring-boot-migration
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Spring Boot Tutorial – Bootstrap a Simple Application 1. Overview Spring Boot is an opinionated, convention-over-configuration focused addition to the Spring platform – highly useful to get started with minimum effort and create stand-alone, production-grade applications. This tutorial is a starting point for Boot – a way to get started… Continue Reading spring-boot-start
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Spring Boot Security Auto-Configuration 1. Introduction In this article, we’ll have a look at Spring Boot’s opinionated approach to security. Simply put, we’re going to focus on the default security configuration and how we can disable or customize it if we need to. Further reading: Spring Security – security none,… Continue Reading spring-boot-security-autoconfiguration
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How to Define a Spring Boot Filter? 1. Overview In this quick tutorial, we’ll explore how to define custom filters and specify their invocation order with the help of Spring Boot. Further reading: Find the Registered Spring Security Filters Learn how to find all the registered Spring Security filters in… Continue Reading spring-boot-add-filter
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