Skip SSL certificate verification in Spring Rest Template

How to skip SSL certificate verification while using Spring Rest Template? Configure Rest Template so it uses Http Client to…

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Spring MVC 4 Quickstart Maven Archetype Improved – More Java 8 Features

For all those developers interested in bootstrapping Spring 4 application quickly without Spring Boot, please check my Spring MVC 4…

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5 reasons why you should consider upgrading your applications to Spring 4

Firstly released in 2004, Spring Framework is among top Java frameworks. Spring 4 has been released in December 2013 and…

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HOW-TO: Register components using @Conditional and Condition in Spring

@Profile annotation in Spring can be used on any Spring components (e.g. @Component, @Service, @Configuration etc.) that are candidates for…

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HOW-TO: Java 8 Date & Time with Thymeleaf and Spring Boot

If you happen to work with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf and you need to format Java 8 Date & Time…

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Placeholders support in Value annotations in Spring

${...} placeholders in @Value annotation are used to access properties registered with @PropertySource. This is extremely useful with @Configuration beans…

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AssertJ’s SoftAssertions – do we need them?

One of the rules of writing good unit test is that it should fail for one reason, so unit test…

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Override Spring Framework version in Spring Boot application built with Gradle

If you want to use or just check the newest version of Spring with Spring Boot but the current Spring…

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Parameterized integration tests with Spring JUnit Rules

Spring 4.2 comes with brand new JUnit rules: SpringClassRule and SpringMethodRule. The main advantage of using JUnit rules is to…

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