Black Box Testing of Spring Boot Microservice is so easy

When I needed to do prototyping, proof of concept or play with some new technology in free time, starting new…

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Externalizing session state for a Spring-boot application using spring-session

Spring-session is a very cool new project that aims to provide a simpler way of managing sessions in Java based…

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Spring boot war packaging

Spring boot recommends creating an executable jar with an embedded container (tomcat or jetty) during build time and using this…

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Spring Rest API with Swagger – Exposing documentation

Once you create API documentation it is important to make it available to the stakeholders. In ideal case, this published documentation…

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Spring boot based websocket application and capturing http session id

I was involved in a project recently where we needed to capture the http session id for a websocket request…

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Spring from the Trenches: Resetting Auto Increment Columns Before Each Test Method

When we are writing integration tests for a function that saves information to the database, we have to verify that…

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Spring Caching abstraction and Google Guava Cache

Spring provides a great out of the box support for caching expensive method calls. The caching abstraction is covered in…

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Server side logging from browser side JavaScript code

Application logging is something we all do in our applications that get deployed on an application server, right? Using frameworks…

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Spring from the Trenches: Using Null Values in DbUnit Datasets

If we are writing integration tests for an application that uses Spring Framework, we can integrate DbUnit with the Spring…

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