In this tutorial, you will learn about the difference between two Spring Boot dependencies – Spring Boot Actuator and Spring Boot Starter Actuator. If you’re new to Spring Boot, these terms may sound confusing, but don’t worry, by the end of this tutorial, you’ll understand the difference between them. Spring Boot is a popular framework…
Read More Spring Boot Actuator vs Spring Boot Starter ActuatorIn this tutorial you will learn how to enable and how to view Spring Cloud API Gateway Routes using Spring Boot Actuator. Developers use Actuator to enable API Gateway routes in order to keep track of the routes being used in their application. By exposing these routes through Actuator endpoints, developers can get valuable information…
Read More Viewing Spring Cloud API Gateway Routes with Spring Boot ActuatorSpring Boot Actuator is a useful feature that provides developers with a set of tools to monitor and manage their applications. However, some of the actuator endpoints are sensitive and can potentially expose sensitive information about your application. In this article, we’ll explore different ways to secure these endpoints to ensure your application is protected.…
Read More Securing Spring Boot Actuator Endpoints: Best PracticesIn this tutorial, I will explain in detail how to secure sensitive Spring Boot Actuator Endpoints using Spring Boot version 3. This tutorial is intended for beginners who want to learn how to monitor and manage their Spring Boot applications using Actuator. Spring Boot Actuator is a sub-module of Spring Boot that provides production-ready features…
Read More How to Secure Spring Boot Actuator Endpoints with Basic AuthenticationIn a microservices architecture, it is common to have multiple services communicating with each other over the network. This distributed nature of the architecture can make it challenging to diagnose and debug issues when they arise. To address this problem, developers often use monitoring(Micrometer) and tracing tools(Zipkin) to track the flow of requests between microservices.…
Read More Micrometer and Zipkin: How to Trace HTTP Requests in Spring Boot 3In this tutorial, you will learn how to remove the DEBUG banner in the Flutter app. Removing the DEBUG banner is crucial for ensuring that your Flutter mobile application looks polished and production-ready. It’s also important to note that this label can be misleading to users who may mistake it for an error or bug…
Read More Removing the DEBUG Banner in Flutter AppThe RestTemplate class within the Spring Framework is a simple HTTP client that enables your code to send HTTP requests and handle HTTP responses. This tutorial will demonstrate how to use RestTemplate to send various types of HTTP requests. Create Spring Boot App RestTemplate is a component of the Spring Framework and is typically utilized…
Read More Spring RestTemplate TutorialIn this tutorial, you will learn how to enable OpenAPI(Swagger) in your Spring Boot version 3 application. What is OpenAPI? OpenAPI (formerly known as Swagger) is a specification for building and documenting RESTful APIs. It allows developers to describe their API operations, inputs, outputs, and other aspects in a structured and machine-readable format. This documentation…
Read More Enable OpenAPI 3(Swagger) in Spring Boot 3In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the @PutMapping annotation in your RESTful web services app to handle HTTP PUT requests with a JSON or XML payload. This allows you to update user details, for example. Here’s an example CURL command to send an HTTP PUT request with JSON data containing user details: HTTP…
Read More @PutMapping in Spring Boot RESTThis tutorial covers three distinct methods for reading application properties in a Spring Boot application. These methods include: Using the Environment object. Using the @ConfigurationProperties annotation. Using the @Value annotation. I made a simple Spring Boot Web App to show you how to read application properties. You can use the tutorial Create a Simple Web…
Read More Spring Boot: Reading Application PropertiesIn this blog post, I will share how to run a Spring Boot app from the command line in a Terminal window. There are a couple of ways to do this, and both assume that you have already created your Spring Boot app. If you need help creating a new Spring Boot app, please check…
Read More How to Run Spring Boot App via Command LineIn this REST Assured tutorial, I will demonstrate how to evaluate the JSON content that is returned in the response body of an HTTP response. What is REST Assured? REST Assured is a Java-based library for testing RESTful web services. It provides a domain-specific language (DSL) for writing tests that interact with web services using…
Read More Validate JSON Response with REST AssuredThis Spring Data JPA tutorial will demonstrate how to use the LIKE % expression in a Native SQL Query. In an advanced SQL LIKE expression, the % sign represents zero, one, or multiple characters within the SQL query. Let’s take a look at a Native JPA SQL Query that employs an advanced SQL LIKE expression…
Read More LIKE % Expression in JPA SQL QueriesThis blog post will guide you on reading the body of an HTTP request in the filter class of your Spring Boot application. For more code examples, you can refer to the Spring Boot tutorials page. What is a Spring Filter? A Spring Filter is an object that intercepts incoming HTTP requests and outgoing HTTP…
Read More Reading Request Body in Spring FilterThis short REST Assured tutorial will teach you how to validate the HTTP Response Status Code while testing a RESTful Web Service endpoint. Each HTTP Response includes a status code, and by examining the status code value, we can determine if the HTTP Response was successful or not. Let’s explore how we can use REST…
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