Spring WebApplicationInitializer and ApplicationContextInitializer confusion

These are two concepts that I mix up occasionally – a WebApplicationInitializer and an ApplicationContextInitializer, and wanted to describe each…

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Customizing HttpMessageConverters with Spring Boot and Spring MVC

Exposing a REST based endpoint for a Spring Boot application or for that matter a straight Spring MVC application is…

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Validation groups in Spring MVC

Validation constraints in Bean Validation may be added to one or more groups via groups attribute. This allows you to…

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Spring MVC Integration Testing: Assert the given model attribute(s) have global errors

In order to report a global error in Spring MVC using Bean Validation we can create a custom class level…

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Common mistakes when using Spring MVC

 When I started my career around 10 years ago, Struts MVC was the norm in the market. However, over the…

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Better error messages with Bean Validation 1.1 in Spring MVC application

Bean Validation 1.1, among many new features, introduced error message interpolation using Unified Expression Language (EL) expressions. This allows to…

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RSS Reader Using: ROME, Spring MVC, Embedded Jetty

In this post I will show some guidelines to create a Spring web application, running it using Jetty and using…

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Spring MVC and Thymeleaf: how to acess data from templates

In a typical Spring MVC application, @Controller classes are responsible for preparing a model map with data and selecting a…

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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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