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In this short tutorial, I am going to share with you how to enable CrossOrigin in a RESTful Web Service API built with Spring Boot that also has Spring Security enabled. Enable CrossOrigin for Specific Endpoint  To enable cross-origin AJAX HTTP requests to a specific RESTful Web Service endpoint in our Rest Controller class we can use…

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In this tutorial, we will create a Spring Boot application which demonstrates how we can add and use the H2 in-memory database in our application. You will learn how an in-memory database like H2 can be used to develop a Spring boot application without the overhead of doing DB configuration on your machine and without…

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This tutorial will teach you how to build a Spring Boot application and access data in a MongoDB database using the MongoTemplate APIs.   For MongoDB, we will use mLab, which provides MongoDB Database as a Service platform so that you don’t even have to install a MongoDB database on your computer.  Also, at the end…

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In this short Java tutorial, you will learn how to quickly generate a serialVersionUID for a given class. Most Java IDEs provide a support for generating serialVersionUID automatically while some require you to install a plugin for you to generate this value. Generate SerialVersionUID for a Java Class There is a built-in command in JDK…

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to implement pagination in your RESTful Web Services application built with Spring Boot. The code example below will demonstrate how to implement pagination for the API endpoint that returns a list of users. I assume you already have your Spring Boot RESTful Web Service built, but if you…

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This tutorial will teach you how to make your RESTful Spring Boot API endpoint respond with either XML or JSON representation. The client application can request our API endpoint to respond with JSON or XML by including a special HTTP Header called Accept. As a value, the Accept HTTP Header will have either application/json or application/xml. …

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In this Spring Boot REST tutorial, you will learn how to use the @PostMapping annotation to make your RESTful Web Service Endpoint able to handle HTTP Post requests and read its JSON or XML body payload. If you are also interested in using @GetMapping, @PutMapping and @DeleteMapping annotations, check the following tutorial “@PostMapping, @GetMapping, @PutMapping,…

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With this Spring Boot tutorial, I will share how to handle exceptions in your RESTful Web Service application build with Spring Boot. Read the “Handling Exceptions in Project Reactor” tutorial if you use a project reactor. And to learn how to test your code for Exceptions, read the “Test for Exceptions with the JUnit” tutorial. What…

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Adding logging support to your RESTful Web Service application with Spring Boot is extremely simple. To use Spring Boot logging, you do not need to add any additional dependencies or libraries to your web app project other than the spring-boot-starter-web dependency. If you are working on a Spring Boot Web or a Web Services project, you…

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