Quick and practical guide to preventing CSRF attacks with Spring Security, Spring MVC and Thymeleaf.

A practical two-factor authentication implementation with Spring Security 4 and the Google Authenticator mobile app.

<p>Welcome to another installment of <em>You May Not Need Another Library For That</em> (<code>#YMNNALFT</code>)! I’ve spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in <a…

In this post we will explore using Spring Boot's default logging framework, Logback. Logback makes an excellent logging framework for enterprise applications. It’s fast, and has simple but powerful configuration options, and comes with a…

The article explains running two SpringBoot applications in different docker containers, but communicating and appearing as a single unit to the host system.

Spring Boot testing recipe to disable the default auto-configuration of an embedded MongoDB of @DataMongoTest to use Testcontainers instead.

Learn how to use Activiti workflow and Business Process Management platform with Spring.

Taking a look back and sharing my plans for 2021.

Building a new feature into the case-study app - scheduling a post to Reddit from the RSS feed of a pre-defined site.

Java 14 introduces a new feature called Records. In Java, Record is a special type of Java class. It is intended to hold pure immutable data in it. The syntax of a record is concise and…

<p>Hi, Spring fans! Happy new year! And welcome to another installment of <em>This Week in Spring</em>! Today is a significant installment because it marks a decade of <em>This Week in Spring</em>! </p>
<p>I started this roundup after a fun discussion with…

RabbitMQ is a common messaging broker which allows applications to connect and communicate. It's common for services in microservices-based systems to communicate asynchronously through messaging. In order to create such a message-based system, you need…

In Java 8 lambda expressions were added to make Java code more concise and readable. Lambda expressions are similar to methods. However, unlike other methods, lambda expressions do not need a name. You can implement…

Spring Boot REST APIs have different types of clients accessing from different locations. At times, these APIs need to perform tasks to generate and share sensitive data. Now all clients should not get access to…

Apache Maven is distributed in several formats. The simplest way to install Maven is to download a ready-made binary distribution archive and follow the installation instructions. Maven 3.3+ release requires JDK 1.7 or above to…

<p>Welcome to another installment of <em>You May Not Need Another Library For That</em> (YMNNALFT)! I’ve spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in <a href="http://bit.ly/spring…

Learn how the Hibernate LazyToOne annotation works and why you should use NO_PROXY lazy loading with bytecode enhancement.

This tutorial show how to implement a simple microservice in Kotlin, then deploy and run it on Google Kubernetes Engine using Skaffold.

Learn the differences of running a Spring Boot App with Maven vs an Executable War/Jar.

Have a look at different methods to gracefully handle errors in Spring Webflux.