Overriding a packaged Spring application properties file via an external file

Quite a common use case when developing a Spring application is that you want to have multiple versions of configuration…

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Spring MVC: Session advanced

Not so long time ago I wrote a post about HTTP sessions in a Spring MVC application. That was the…

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Spring MVC Custom Validation Annotations

Last tutorial, I showed how to validate a form using annotations. This works great for simple validations, but eventually, you’ll…

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Auditing a Spring MVC Webapp with AspectJ. Part 2

Now, this is the blog you want to read if you’re interested in creating a Spring MVC Webapp that uses…

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su and sudo in Spring Security applications

Long time ago I worked on a project that had a quite powerful feature. There were two roles: user and…

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Unit Testing of Spring MVC Controllers: Configuration

Writing unit tests for Spring MVC controllers has traditionally been both simple and problematic. Although it is pretty simple to…

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Auditing a Spring MVC Webapp with AspectJ. Part 1

If you’re like me, then you’ll have those kinds of programming days where everything seems to go incredibly well. You…

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Spring from the Trenches: Using Environment Specific Cron Expressions with the @Scheduled Annotation

The @Scheduled annotation offers an easy way to create scheduled tasks in Spring powered applications. We can use it to…

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Spring JTA multiple resource transactions in Tomcat with Atomikos example

In this tutorial we shall show you how to implement JTA multiple resource transactions in a Tomcat server, using Atomikos…

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