Introduction Setter based dependency injection is one of the ways spring allows to do DI. As setters let us update object properties after its creation, This behaviour is a perfect candidate to add optional dependencies in a Spring IoC container. Also, Setter injection plays as an alternative when Constructor Dependency Injection is not possible. For…
Spring framework provides inversion of control through Constructor based and Setter based Dependency Injection(DI). In this article, we will explore more about the first kind. What is Constructor based DI in Spring To simply put, When we pass the required objects as constructor arguments at the time of bean creation, then we call it the…
Let’s learn how to send HTML emails from Spring Boot using FreeMarker template engine. Background Apache FreeMarker is a template engine that helps to create dynamic HTML content. This ability makes it suitable for generating emails based on HTML templates. To demonstrate this, We are going to create an email service using Freemarker and Spring…
FreeMarker is a java based template engine which has rich support in Spring Boot. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use Apache FreeMarker as a template engine for Spring MVC with an example. Introduction Spring Boot provides out of the box support to four major template engines. Out of these four, FreeMarker has…
Let’s learn how to configure spring boot to show SQL statements and parameters generated by Spring data JPA and hibernate via various approaches. Overview If you are using Spring JPA or hibernate for JDBC abstraction, then you may already find it difficult to debug your SQL statements. For this reason, you can configure your application…
RabbitMQ is a message broker that receives and forwards messages. In this post, You will learn how to use RabbitMQ with spring boot. Also, you will learn how to publish to and subscribe from queues and exchanges. Setting up RabbitMQ in local machine You can download the RabbitMQ installer from the official download page. However,…
Introduction In this post, we will take a look at the spring boot actuator info endpoint. And also how to customize it to show build info, git commit info and extra info from the environment. Spring Boot Actuator Dependency First, you need to add the dependency for actuator. Once added, you can open the /actuator/info…
