Spring Boot Web Slice test – Sample

Spring Boot introduced test slicing a while back and it has taken me some time to get my head around it and…

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Testing Spring Data + Spring Boot applications with Arquillian (Part 2)

In previous post, I wrote about how to test Spring Data application using Docker with Arquillian Cube. The test looked like: @RunWith(SpringRunner.class) @SpringBootTest(classes =…

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Testing Spring Data + Spring Boot applications with Arquillian (Part 1)

Spring Data’s mission is to provide a familiar and consistent, Spring-based programming model for data access while still retaining the…

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Spring Boot, @EnableWebMvc And Common Use-Cases

It turns out that Spring Boot doesn’t mix well with the standard Spring MVC @EnableWebMvc. What happens when you add…

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Real-Time Communication: Implementing Websockets With Spring Boot

When developing web applications, we sometimes need to push server events down to connected clients. However, HTTP was not designed…

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Auto-Publishing & Monitoring APIs With Spring Boot

If you are heading down the path of a Microservices style of architecture, one tenant you will need to embrace…

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Debugging Grails 3, Spring Boot or Gradle with Eclipse

This is a small post for those who’s primary IDE is Eclipse for developing Grails 3 apps or plugins —…

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Spring Boot and Security Events with Actuator

Spring Boot Actuator provides auditing capabilities for publishing and listening to security related events in a Spring Boot application with…

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Consumer Driven Testing with Pact & Spring Boot

Recently a colleague of mine stumbled across Pact.io,  Our current application had grown to over 50 services and we we’re starting…

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