RESTful web services use HTTP methods and representations to manage resources. In order to properly handle these resources, it’s important to understand how to define the expected behaviour of an endpoint in terms of the HTTP request and response, including specifying request methods, headers, and media types. By using Spring’s @RequestMapping annotation, we can map…
Read More The @RequestMapping Annotation: A Comprehensive GuideIn this tutorial, you will learn what the @Controller annotation is and how to use it in Spring. You will use @Controller annotation to mark a class as a Spring MVC controller. It is generally used with @RequestMapping annotation to map HTTP requests to specific methods in a controller class. How to User @Controller Annotation…
Read More @Controller Annotation in SpringIn this tutorial, you will learn what the @Service annotation is and how to use it in your Spring Boot applications. @Service annotation is a part of the Spring Framework, and you will use it to mark a class as a service layer component. This annotation is typically used in conjunction with @Component, which is…
Read More @Service Annotation in SpringSpring Framework is an open-source application development framework that provides comprehensive infrastructure support for developing Java applications. One of the key features of the Spring Framework is its support for stereotype annotations, which provide a convenient way to configure and manage the various components in a Spring-based application. What are Stereotype Annotations? Stereotype annotations are…
Read More Spring Boot Stereotype AnnotationsThis tutorial will teach you what the @Lazy annotation is and how it is used. The @Lazy annotation in Spring Boot is used to mark a bean or component as lazy-initialized. This means that the bean will not be instantiated until it is first requested by another bean or by the user. @Lazy Annotation Example…
Read More @Lazy Annotation in Spring BootThis tutorial will teach you what @Bean annotation is and how to use it. The @Bean annotation indicates that a method produces a bean to be managed by the Spring container. It is a method-level annotation that is used to define beans in Spring configuration files. How to use @Bean annotation Here is a simple…
Read More @Bean Annotation Tutorial@Value is a Spring annotation that allows you to inject a property value from a configuration file into a field in your application. This can be useful for injecting values such as database connection strings, API keys, or other application-specific configurations. To use @Value in a Spring Boot application, follow these steps: Step 1. Add…
Read More How to Use @Value Annotation in SpringIn this tutorial, you will learn how to enable the Actuator’s httpTrace endpoint in Spring Boot 3. In fact, /httptrace has been renamed to /httpexchanges, so this tutorial will teach you how to enable the Actuator’s /httpexchanges API endpoint instead of /httptrace. The httpexchanges endpoint provides information about HTTP request-response exchanges. These HTTP exchanges are essentially…
Read More How to Enable Actuator’s HttpTrace in Spring Boot 3Spring Boot CLI is a command-line interface tool that allows developers to create and run Spring applications without needing an external development environment. This tutorial will teach you how to install Spring Boot CLI on macOS and Windows. Let’s begin with macOS. Installing Spring Boot CLI on macOS To install Spring Boot CLI on macOS,…
Read More Installing Spring Boot CLIRunning a Spring Boot application in a Docker container is a great way to package and deploy your application. By packaging your application in a Docker container, you can easily distribute it to other machines and ensure that it runs in the same environment on each machine. In this blog post, I will show you…
Read More Run Spring Boot Application in Docker with ProfileIn this tutorial, we’ll implement a RestTemplate Error Handling Example. But before moving ahead, let’s see why is there a need to do this? The answer is: It becomes very tedious to handle exceptions through try/catch blocks as applications scale. An Efficient way to avoid this hassle is to implement a reusable error handler that…
Read More RestTemplate Error Handling ExampleThis tutorial will teach you how to leverage RestTemplate to access RESTful APIs protected by basic authentication. You will learn to create a Basic Authentication-secured REST API and access it via RestTemplate. What is Basic Authentication As the name suggests, it is a basic form of authentication in which we must provide the correct username…
Read More RestTemplate Example with Basic AuthenticationIn this tutorial, we’ll learn what IoC (Inversion of Control) and DI (Dependency Injection) are, as well as take a look at how these are implemented in the Spring framework. What Is Inversion of Control (IoC)? Inversion of Control is a principle in software engineering that separates the control of objects or how parts of…
Read More Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control in SpringWhen developing Spring Boot applications, we need to tell the Spring Framework where to look for the custom code that we wrote. Using component scan is one method of asking Spring to detect the components of our application which Spring will then manage for us from Initialization to Execution. Spring needs the information to locate…
Read More Component Scanning in a Spring Boot ApplicationIn this tutorial, you will learn how to define custom filters and specify their order of invocation in the Spring Boot application. What is a custom filter? Filters enable us to filter on either the request to a resource, the response from a resource, or both. Spring Boot provides a few options to register custom…
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