Consuming Spring-hateoas Rest service using Spring RestTemplate and Super type tokens

Spring-hateoas provides an excellent way for applications to create REST based services which follow the HATEOAS principle. My objective here…

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Spring Integration Publisher

Consider a hypothetical requirement – You have a service class in your application and you want to capture some information…

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java.util.Random in Java 8

One of the neat features of java.util.Random class in Java 8 is that it has been retrofitted to now return…

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Java 8 parameter name at runtime

Java 8 will be introducing an easier way to discover the parameter names of methods and constructors. Prior to Java…

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Spring 4 Conditional

Spring 4 is introducing a new feature called Conditional – an annotation targeted towards Spring components which generate beans and…

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Reasons to consider spring-boot for your next Spring based application!

Spring-boot  provides a quick way to create a Spring based application. There are some very compelling reasons to consider spring-boot…

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Spring @Bean and PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer

I was recently stumped by what I thought was going to be a fairly straightforward implementation – Consider the following…

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Spring MVC Error handling flow

There are broadly three ways of handling an exception flow using Spring MVC, the objective being to intercept any application…

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Testing Spring “session” scope

In a Spring based Web application, beans can be scoped to the user “session”. This essentially means that state changes…

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