In this tutorial, you will learn what the @Respository annotation is and how to use it in your Spring Boot applications. @Repository is a Spring annotation that indicates that the decorated class is a repository. A repository is a mechanism for encapsulating storage, retrieval, and search behaviour which emulates a collection of objects. How to…
Read More @Repository Annotation in SpringIf you’re an absolute beginner looking to learn about integration testing for Spring Boot applications with a MySQL database server, then you’re in the right place. As you proceed through this tutorial, remember that everyone was once a beginner, and the only silly question is the one you don’t ask. This tutorial aims to introduce…
Read More Integration Testing with Spring Boot, MySQL and TestcontainersIn this tutorial, you will learn how to deploy a Spring Boot application and a MySQL server in separate Docker containers. By the end of this tutorial, you will know how to run your Spring Boot application in one Docker container and your MySQL server in another Docker container and how to make them communicate…
Read More Deploying a Spring Boot App and MySQL in Docker ContainersIn this tutorial, I will walk you through how to build multi-container applications using Docker Compose. This is a beginner-friendly guide that explains everything you need to know to get started. You will learn how to create a web application with Spring Boot that uses MySQL as a database server. We will also discuss how…
Read More Building Multi-Container Application with Docker Compose: A Beginners’ GuideThis 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 the Spring annotations used to map HTTP requests to specific handler methods. These annotations include @PostMapping, @GetMapping, @PutMapping, and @DeleteMapping. While most Spring Boot applications use the @RequestMapping annotation, which I will also cover in this post, I’ll begin with the newer shortcut annotations that have been available…
Read More Spring Annotations @PostMapping, @GetMapping, @PutMapping and @DeleteMappingIn this Spring Security tutorial, you will learn how to enable and use the Method Level Security with a @Secured annotation. @Secured is a Spring Security annotation used to specify that a method should be executed only if the authenticated user has the required roles or authorities. When you use this annotation, you can specify…
Read More Spring Security @Secured: Method-Level ProtectionIn this tutorial, you will learn how to use the @PostAuthorize annotation to secure the return of the method’s return value in your Spring Boot Application. The @PostAuthorize annotation is evaluated after the business logic in a method is executed and if needed will prevent the method from returning a return value. There are other…
Read More @PostAuthorize Security Annotation ExampleIn this Spring Boot Security tutorial, you will learn how to use Spring method-level security to secure RestController methods with @PreAuthorize annotation. If you are interested in video lessons, then I also show how to create user Roles and Authorities and how to use Spring Method Level Security annotations in my video course: RESTful Web…
Read More Spring Method-Level Security with @PreAuthorizeIn this tutorial, I will show you how to add support for the H2 in-memory database to your Spring Boot project with Spring Security enabled. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to watch a video demonstration of how to implement it. After following the steps below, your Spring Boot project will…
Read More Add H2 Database to Spring Boot with Spring Security: A GuideThis tutorial guides you through writing type-safe queries in Java using jOOQ (Java Object Oriented Query). You’ll get a quick tour of jOOQ by running an application and seeing how it generates database tables from Java classes. With its smooth API, jOOQ also helps you create type-safe SQL queries. jOOQ vs JPA jOOQ is a…
Read More Type Safe SQL Queries in Java with jOOQIn this blog post, I will share how to copy properties from a DTO object to an Entity object and then back from an Entity object to a DTO object. DTO stands for Data Transfer Object, and it is a simple, Plain Old Java Object that typically contains class properties and getter and setter methods…
Read More DTO to Entity Conversion in JavaDependency injection is a design pattern in which a component’s dependencies are supplied externally rather than being hardcoded within the component itself. In Spring, developers mainly use 3 different types of dependency injection: constructor-based, setter-based, and field-based. In this tutorial, we will see how to use Setter-based Dependency Injection to inject a UsersRepository into a…
Read More Setter-based Dependency Injection in SpringSpring Boot offers various methods and techniques for setting up your database. It can automatically create and initialize the database using the information in the data source. Spring Boot looks for SQL files in specific locations in your project’s classpath, such as “schema.sql” and “data.sql”. In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure your…
Read More Database Initialization with Spring BootSpring Framework is a popular Java-based framework that provides a comprehensive infrastructure for developing Java applications. The framework was initially released in 2002 by Rod Johnson, who was frustrated with the complexity of the existing Java EE (Enterprise Edition) platform. He wanted to create a simpler and more lightweight framework that would make it easier…
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