CSRF protection in Spring MVC, Thymeleaf, Spring Security application

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is an attack which forces an end user to execute unwanted actions on a web application…

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JUnit ExpectedException rule: beyond basics

There are different ways of handling exceptions in JUnit tests. As I wrote in one of my previous posts, my…

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HOW-TO: Test dependencies in a Maven project (JUnit, Mockito, Hamcrest, AssertJ)

JUnit itself is not enough for most of today’s Java projects. You also need a mocking library, maybe something else.…

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Configure favicon.ico in Spring MVC based application

Favicon is an icon (favicon.ico) associated with your website. Not every website is using favicon though. But most browsers do…

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Parameterized JUnit tests with JUnitParams

Parameterized unit tests are used to to test the same code under different conditions. Thanks to parameterized unit tests we…

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HOW-TO: Get started quickly with Spring 4.0 to build a simple REST-Like API (walkthrough)

HOW-TO: Get started quickly with Spring 4.0 to build a simple REST-Like API (walkthrough) Yet another tutorial about creating Web…

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HOW-TO: Custom error pages in Tomcat with Spring MVC

Default Tomcat error pages look scary. In addition, they may expose valuable information including server version and exception stack trace.…

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Thymeleaf template layouts in Spring MVC application with no extensions

After some years with JSP/JSTL and Apache Tiles I started discovering Thymeleaf for my Spring MVC applications. Thymeleaf is a…

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3 ways of handling exceptions in JUnit. Which one to choose?

In JUnit there are 3 popular ways of handling exceptions in your test code: try-catch idiom With JUnit rule With…

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