In this post, We will learn about Health check indicators of Spring Boot. Spring boot makes health checks easier for us by providing opinionated /actuator/health endpoint. Spring Boot Health actuator The HealthEndpoint of spring-boot-starter-actuator module collects Health information for any beans that are defined as HealthIndicator. For a simple web application, there are two HealthIndicator beans Auto-Configured by default. And they are for Ping health check and…

In this post, we will learn each part of Spring Boot project Structure and its conventions. Spring Boot is an opinionated view of how a Spring-based application should be implemented. Given that a lot of these opinions are on how Spring features should be used, Spring boot also emphasises the structure of the spring boot…

Let’s learn how to install a spring boot as a linux service. Requirements You will need, Basics of running a spring boot application Understanding linux services and file system. 15 minutes of your time. Make the jar an executable Spring boot applications can be started using the command java -jar hello-world.jar. We have seen this behaviour in the posts How…

In this post, We will learn about converting Spring Boot JAR to WAR file. We know that Spring Boot produces a fat JAR That helps You to start the app by running java -jar <your jar file>. We can deploy these JARs with ease. But in unavoidable situations, you may need a WAR file. Each application runs on a separate port….

In this post, We will learn about start and stop shell scripts to run Spring Boot applications. Spring boot applications are easier to build and run. However, there is one small problem. Most of the developers still struggle when it comes to running, stopping and starting the application in production servers. The traditional applications were deployed…

Spring Boot Starters add or change behaviour of an application. Starters do this through opinionated defaults and auto-configurations. Background In a traditional web application, The developers will have to do the following stuff. Write a spring-context.xml to define the beans required. Write definitions for your database configuration. Define MVC configuration and their mappings/filters/etc. Create a web.xml to define…

Let’s build a Hello World web application using Spring Boot. We will go through step by step to learn how to do this. Generate A Spring Boot Project There are multiple ways to setup a Spring Boot application. However, the easiest way to do it via Spring Initializer. Open the Spring Initializer page and add…