Spring

Statically Spilling Your (Spring) Beans

There are some edge cases where you want to access Spring Beans in a static method, while you should always try to avoid this.

Build a Status Dashboard Using Spring Boot and Astra DB

Learn how to leverage the Astra Document API on top of Cassandra to build a dashboard of statuses, with Spring Boot for rendering. 

Build and Test Non-Blocking Web Applications with Spring WebFlux, Kotlin and Coroutines

In this article, we will develop a simple RESTful API using Spring WebFlux and aim to leverage the special Kotlin extensions in Spring.

Multiple Spring Boot Applications in the Same Project

I frequently use Spring Boot in my demos. The latest one is no different, showing how to achieve CQRS using two different code paths.

Native-image with Spring Boot

As the Cloud has become more widespread, the Spring ecosystem has been forced to cope with GraalVM native. While it still has room for improvement, it does the job.

Multiple Ways to Configure Spring

Many alternatives are available to configure your Spring app.

I’d like to list them in this post, leaving Spring Boot out of the picture on purpose.

VS Code Java August Updates: SpringOne Updates, UX Improvements, Community Feedback

Welcome to the August edition of the Visual Studio Code Java update!

In this article, we are going to share some exciting updates from the SpringOne 2021 conference, as well as various user experience improvements.

Annotation-free Spring

Some, if not most, of our judgments regarding technology stacks come either from third-party opinions or previous experiences. Yet, we seem to be adamant about them!

Better Error Handling for Your Spring Boot REST APIs

One of the things that distinguishes a decent API from one that is a pleasure to work with is robust error handling. Nothing is more frustrating than using some API and getting back cryptic errors where you can only guess why the server is not accepting your request.

Spring Boot lets you customize the error handling for your application, but there is quite a lot of low-level coding involved if you want to do this correctly.

Creating a Simple Spring Boot Application in IntelliJ IDEA

In this tutorial, we’ll use the New Project Wizard in IntelliJ IDEA to create a Spring Boot project with the Spring Web dependency.

We’ll also create a Spring Controller and served some text to the local Tomcat webserver.

Finally, we’ll add a test for our HTTP call.

Building Microservices with Spring Boot Fat (Uber) Jar

In most minds, microservices is an approach to make a traditional monolithic system more structured, dividing it into logical components that correspond to different functional areas of application.

Thus, acting as a microservice, each component becomes self-contained, easily scaled, maintained and even upgraded without affecting the overall system.

Also, with a microservice architecture, you can use a software written in different programming languages, including Java.

Such freedom attracts but may frighten at the same time.