It is always an interesting and exciting task to compare two popular frameworks. This time the contenders are two of the most popular microservices frameworks in Java. In this tutorial, I am going to compare the various aspects of Spring Boot and Dropwizard. I have been working on Spring Boot for almost a year and …
Spring Boot Tutorials
Spring Boot Configurations
Spring Boot uses application.properties or application.yml for configuring the various application level settings. As we are aware that spring boot works with the opinionated default values that are more sensible to your applications. Most of the time you may prefer to override the default values with your own configurations. In this tutorial I am going …
Firing Events at Spring Boot Startup
One of the common things on web application development is to initialize or invoke a piece of code at the start up of the application. If you are developing a traditional Java web application, the startup logic can be mentioned in the ServletContextListener. Spring also offers very convenient way of invoking the events at the …
Ultimate Guide for Spring Boot DevTools
The main reason why Spring Boot is developed by Spring community is to simplify the packaging and deploying your spring applications to production. Keeping with that in mind, spring boot assumes all the default values loaded at startup is optimized for the production ready application. For example, caching of Thymeleaf templates are enabled by default which improves the performance in …
Caching Support in Spring Boot
This tutorial highlights the new features added as part of the spring boot 1.3.0 for caching support. Caching has been supported by spring boot, but there is no auto configuration option for the caching in spring boot until now. The new Spring Boot release 1.3.0 has introduced the following features that makes easier to use the caching within spring …
MySQL Configurations for Spring Boot Applications
In my previous articles for Spring Data JPA, I have used in-memory databases like H2 for persisting data. But, these in-memory databases can not be used for the production. These are only used for the development environment. In this post I will explain the basic configurations for setting up the MYSQL database for your Spring Data …
Spring Data JPA Tutorial using Spring Boot
This tutorial guides you through on building simple REST APIs using Spring Data JPA and Spring Boot. At the end of this tutorial, you would be able to write the applications with Spring Data JPA using Spring Boot. In our earlier tutorials we have covered about Spring Data JPA and JPA frameworks. But, this tutorial uses Spring …
Complete Guide for Spring Boot Actuator
Spring Boot Actuator You are here to learn about Spring Boot Actuator for collecting metrics about your production grade applications. Spring Boot Actuator is sub-project of Spring Boot and it is one of the nice feature that adds great value to the Spring Boot applications. Lets understand in this tutorial about spring boot actuator and …