In this post, We will learn how to customize startup banner of a spring Boot application When starting a Spring Boot application, you may have seen an ASCII art of the Spring Logo with the current spring version at the beginning of the logs. These banners are a callback to old days where displays and … View This post
In this post we will see how to create restful endpoints from JPA Repositories in a Spring Boot application. Introduction In the HATEOAS implementation tutorial, we pretty much save and retrieve data from the database. But there is too much boilerplate code for just managing the data(Controller methods). In situations like these, Spring Data REST comes … View This post
In this post we will learn more about new Startup Actuator endpoint and how we can use it to optimize the startup time of Spring Boot applications. Spring Boot startup sequence is a complex process. We can speed the Spring Boot application startup by tracking the application startup events. Till now we didn’t have an … View This post
In this post we will see how to upload single or multiple files in Spring Boot using MVC features of the WEB starter. What is a multipart File Upload request? There are three types of payloads in POST request. The Request Body is a bunch of parameters which are url-encoded The Request Body is RAW/Binary content. … View This post
In our previous installment, We have made sure our application follow hyper-media format called HAL. However, At most of the controller methods we have been throwing RuntimeException. These by design would cause 500 Error codes. But REST principles dictates that proper message or indication must be given back to client when possible. For example if a … View This post
In this article, We will learn how to implement hateoas in a Spring boot restful web application. Introduction to HATEOAS Hypermedia is the most important aspect of RESTful services. To explain in short Hypermedia is a format where the response for one resource contains links to other resources that are related. Any system that uses … View This post
To understand RESTful API or RESTful web services, You first need to understand what an API is. API(Application Programming Interface) is a software/application/library/mechanism that helps one program to communicate with another. The most widely used API types are web-APIs or web-services. In this type, a client sends a HTTP request, and the server sends back … View This post
In this post, We will learn how to use Zipkin with Spring Boot for distributed tracing. Spring Boot is currently the first choice of Developers to create microservices. With multiple services in place, Traceability of a single request can be cumbersome. Here is Zipkin to the rescue. Zipkin Architecture Zipkin is a distributed tracing tool that has … View This post
