Using Google reCaptcha with Spring Boot application

Introduction reCaptcha by Google is a library used to prevent bots from submitting data to your public forms or accessing…

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Secure Your Java App with Spring Security, Thymeleaf, and Okta

Never Build Auth Again – Love building user management? With Okta, you can add social login, multi-factor authentication, and OpenID…

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Replacing exceptions with error notifications during input validation in Java

In my previous article I wrote about an input validation design which replaces hard-to-maintain-and-test if-else blocks. However, as some readers pointed…

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Why is Spring’s Health Down, Down, Up, Up, Up and Down again?

Why Our new JavaScript client application regularly calls the /health endpoint of our Grails backend to determine on- of offline…

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Spring and Threads: Transactions

In order to be able to use transactions with our thread we need to understand how transactions work with spring.…

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Spring and Threads: Async

Previously we started working with spring and the TaskExecutor, thus we became more familiar on how to use threads on…

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Spring and Threads: TaskExecutor

Using threads in a web application is not unusual especially when you have to develop long running tasks. Considering spring…

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Converting XML to JSON & Raw Use in MongoDB & Spring Batch

Overview Why convert XML to JSON for raw use in MongoDB? Since MongoDB uses JSON documents in order to store…

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Spring Cloud – Basic setup

Spring Cloud solves common problems of distributed systems. However, for someone who works only with widely known monolith applications jumping…

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