This article explains how to identify, design, and implement Java microservices—from domain‑driven modeling and service boundaries to RESTful API creation, documentation, proper HTTP verbs, and versioning strategies—using examples like an online retail store and the Game On! text adventure.
This guide shows how to change a Spring Boot project’s packaging to WAR, remove the embedded Tomcat, add the servlet‑api dependency, create a servlet initializer, build the WAR with Maven, and deploy it to an external Tomcat server for verification.
This article traces Spring's evolution, explains why Spring Boot was created to simplify configuration and deployment, outlines its core features, testing support, convention‑over‑configuration philosophy, and its relationship with Spring Cloud, providing a comprehensive guide for backend developers.
This article explains Spring Boot's core features, the role of @Conditional in automatic configuration, demonstrates custom condition classes and annotations, and walks through the source code of Spring Boot's auto‑configuration infrastructure, including @SpringBootApplication, EnableAutoConfigurationImportSelector, and class‑path condition evaluation.
This guide explains how to implement global rate limiting for high‑traffic Spring Boot applications by using Redis caches and MySQL storage, covering request interception, Redis key structures for limits and counters, and dynamic configuration for adding, updating, or deleting limits.
This article explores the origins of Spring Boot, its evolution from the Spring framework, key features, advantages for developers, and its relationship with Spring Cloud, illustrating how it simplifies Java backend development and addresses configuration complexity.
This article provides a detailed tutorial for creating a Spring Boot project with MyBatis, including environment setup, Maven dependencies, configuration files, database creation, MyBatis generator usage, and sample controller, service, and mapper code, enabling pagination with PageHelper and testing via HTTP requests.
This article shares a year‑long experience of adopting Spring Boot and Spring Cloud in a mid‑size Chinese company, explains microservice fundamentals, compares Spring Cloud with Dubbo, and provides practical guidance on service splitting, database handling, and migration strategies for building cloud‑native architectures.
This tutorial demonstrates how to quickly build a modern Java web application using Spring Boot, integrate MyBatis as the ORM, configure Redis as a second‑level cache, and write unit tests with H2, providing step‑by‑step code and configuration details for backend developers.
This guide explains practical methods to protect API data, covering HTTPS, request signing, SSL pinning, symmetric and asymmetric encryption, a Spring Boot starter for automatic request/response encryption, and JavaScript/Axios interceptors for client‑side encryption and decryption.
This article explains how to protect data exchanged between front‑end and back‑end services by using HTTPS, request signing, SSL pinning, and a Spring Boot starter that transparently encrypts/decrypts all API traffic with AES, complemented by JavaScript AES utilities and Axios interceptors for front‑end encryption.
This article explains why API security is crucial in front‑end/back‑end separated systems and provides practical measures—including HTTPS, request signing, SSL pinning, and full request/response AES encryption—along with a Spring Boot starter and JavaScript Axios interceptor to protect data in transit.
This article shares the practical experience, new features, component changes, migration steps, and pitfalls encountered while upgrading an old Spring Boot 1.x backend to Spring Boot 2.0, offering guidance for a smoother transition and highlighting post‑upgrade issues such as path matching, HTTP PUT handling, and Swagger compatibility.
This tutorial walks you through creating a reactive Spring WebFlux RESTful API using Spring Boot 2.0 and MongoDB, covering project setup, database connection, model, DAO, controller implementation, and testing the CRUD operations with practical code examples and screenshots.
This article introduces the fundamentals of message middleware, explains its key application scenarios such as asynchronous processing, system decoupling, flow control, and distributed transaction consistency, details the three transmission modes (point‑to‑point, publish/subscribe, request‑reply), and provides a step‑by‑step ActiveMQ quick‑start guide with Spring Boot integration and complete Java code examples.
This article walks through the evolution of Java web development, comparing the classic web.xml configuration with Servlet 3.0 annotations, Spring’s ServletContainerInitializer, and Spring Boot’s embedded‑container registration mechanisms, while exposing the underlying source code and initialization flow.
This article examines why large‑scale MySQL deployments encounter CPU, I/O and memory bottlenecks, compares vertical and horizontal data‑sharding strategies, evaluates open‑source middleware ShardingJdbc versus MyCat, and provides a detailed Spring Boot integration design with routing rules and practical use‑case examples.
This article compiles and translates key information about HikariCP, detailing why Spring Boot 2 adopts it as the default JDBC pool, comparing its performance and stability against BoneCP, C3P0, Tomcat and Druid, and providing practical configuration steps for quick integration.
This article explains why Spring Boot 2.0 replaced the Jedis Redis client with Lettuce, highlighting Lettuce’s netty‑based architecture, thread‑safe shared connections, asynchronous and reactive support, seamless Redis Sentinel and Cluster integration, SSL, streaming API, and provides code examples for both blocking and async usage.
This article explains how Spring Boot allows external configuration through various sources such as command‑line arguments, JNDI, system properties, environment variables, random values, property files, @PropertySource, and default properties, detailing their priority order and usage examples with code snippets.
This article introduces Spring Boot, explains its key features, walks through creating a Maven project with a complete pom.xml, adds essential dependencies and plugins, shows how to write a basic @RestController application, and demonstrates various ways to run and hot‑reload the service.
This guide explains how to raise Spring Boot code quality to near‑zero defects by writing comprehensive unit tests for Service, DAO, and Controller layers, integrating the Cobertura plugin for detailed coverage metrics, and automating the process with Jenkins for continuous integration.
This guide walks you through installing Spring Boot CLI on Windows, macOS, or Linux, verifying the installation, and quickly building a simple web application using a Groovy script, complete with command‑line examples and expected output.
This article explains why asynchronous @Async tasks using a custom ThreadPoolTaskScheduler can fail during application shutdown due to premature Redis connection pool destruction, and provides a step‑by‑step solution using Spring's shutdown configuration to wait for tasks to complete before closing resources.
This tutorial shows how to replace the default Spring Boot @Async executor with a custom ThreadPoolTaskExecutor, explains each pool parameter, demonstrates annotating async methods to use the pool, and provides a unit test that verifies the thread naming and execution behavior.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to create a simple Spring Boot application, configure Gradle or Maven builds, write MockMvc tests, and use Spring REST Docs to automatically generate up‑to‑date API documentation snippets that can be included in Asciidoctor‑based docs.
This guide introduces the spring-boot-starter-mongodb-plus library, shows how to add it to a Spring Boot project, enables easy annotation-based activation, and provides a comprehensive list of configurable MongoDB connection properties with their default values for fine‑tuned backend performance.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide to creating a Spring Boot project, explains core features such as embedded servlet containers and starters, demonstrates how to configure the main class, customize banners, manage properties, set up type‑safe beans, logging, and profile‑specific settings, all with runnable code examples.
When a Spring Cloud Feign client sends a request containing Java 8 date/time types like LocalDate, LocalTime, or LocalDateTime, the response may trigger JSON parse errors because Spring MVC serializes them as arrays, but Feign expects a proper object, which can be resolved by adding Jackson's JSR‑310 module and configuring the ObjectMapper.
This guide walks you through upgrading a Java application to Spring Boot 2.0, covering prerequisites, adding the properties‑migrator module, Maven and Gradle build changes, key configuration updates, actuator and security adjustments, and other important migration details.
This article explains the new ApplicationStartedEvent introduced in Spring Boot 2.0, shows the full event order, demonstrates how to write listeners for ApplicationPreparedEvent, ApplicationStartedEvent and ApplicationReadyEvent, and clarifies the difference between ApplicationStartedEvent and ApplicationReadyEvent using a CommandLineRunner example.
This article traces Spring’s evolution from its early IOC/AOP roots to the rise of Spring Boot, explains the key features of Spring Boot 2.0, outlines Java version and dependency requirements, and provides practical guidance for migrating existing Spring Boot 1.x projects to 2.0.
Spring Boot simplifies Java web development by embedding Tomcat as its default servlet container, automatically configuring components like Engine, Host, Context, Wrapper, and Connector through application properties, while supporting dynamic servlet registration, WAR deployment, and revealing the underlying initialization process via logs and code.
This guide walks through setting up a Zipkin server, configuring Spring Cloud Sleuth to send trace data via HTTP or RabbitMQ, and using the Zipkin UI to monitor request latency and service dependencies in a Spring Boot microservices environment.
This tutorial explains how Spring Cloud Sleuth creates and propagates Trace‑ID and Span‑ID across microservice calls, shows the required HTTP headers, demonstrates adding the spring‑cloud‑starter‑sleuth dependency, customizing header output, configuring logging levels, and provides runnable code samples with log output for verification.
This article walks through a practical transformation of an old payment architecture into a high‑availability microservice ecosystem, covering SOA vs. microservices, DDD‑guided domain boundaries, Dubbo‑based implementation, operational challenges, continuous integration testing, and future plans for multi‑active data centers.
This guide explains how to use Swagger2Markup to convert Swagger JSON from a Spring Boot project into AsciiDoc and then into static HTML, covering Maven dependencies, a JUnit test for document generation, and the Asciidoctor plugin configuration for final deployment.
This tutorial walks through a complete Spring Boot demo that sets up Maven dependencies, creates Thymeleaf front‑end pages (home, login, hello), implements a main Application class, a HomeController, and a WebSecurityConfig to secure the application with in‑memory authentication, illustrating how to protect URLs, configure a custom login page, and enable logout functionality.
This guide shows how to combine Spring Security and MyBatis to implement username‑password authentication backed by a MariaDB database, covering repository cloning, database setup, Maven execution, and a deep dive into the underlying authentication filter and provider classes with code examples.
This tutorial shows how to integrate Flyway into a Spring Boot application for database version control, covering dependency setup, creation of versioned SQL scripts, configuration, execution of migrations during tests, and handling of checksum validation errors.
This tutorial walks through creating a Spring Boot microservice that uses Spring Cloud Stream to bind to RabbitMQ, covering project setup, required dependencies, a simple consumer implementation, application startup, log verification, core annotations, and a unit test for message production.
This weekend roundup compiles essential Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security articles—including quick starts, deep‑dive tutorials, microservice patterns, API‑gateway tips, and OAuth2 guides—providing developers a convenient reference list to enhance their Java backend expertise.
This article introduces Dubbo, Alibaba's high‑performance RPC and service‑governance framework, explains its core components, features, architecture, and provides step‑by‑step instructions with Maven dependencies, Spring Boot configuration, XML setup, and sample code for building provider and consumer services.
This tutorial demonstrates how to use Spring Cloud Zuul as a proxy to connect a frontend AngularJS application with a separate REST API, addressing CORS and same‑origin restrictions, configuring Maven, routing, custom filters, and testing the integration.
This article explains the fundamentals of HTTP Session and Cookie mechanisms in Java web applications, provides a minimal Spring Boot controller example that stores and retrieves a browser identifier via session, demonstrates behavior across Chrome and 360 browsers, and highlights the security risk of tampering with the JSESSIONID cookie.
This tutorial explains the fundamentals of Spring AOP, introduces key terminology and pointcut expressions, demonstrates how to configure various advice types, and provides a complete Spring Boot example that uses an aspect to automatically record web request logs with minimal code changes.
Jkes is a Java‑based search framework built on Kafka and ElasticSearch that provides annotation‑driven JPA‑style mapping, REST APIs for indexing and searching, and detailed integration with Spring Boot, offering developers a complete backend solution for scalable document search.
This guide walks you through setting up Kafka and Zookeeper, adding Spring Integration dependencies, configuring application.yml, creating producer and consumer configurations with @Configuration and @EnableKafka, implementing a @KafkaListener, and testing the integration via a Spring MVC endpoint, while highlighting common pitfalls.
This article introduces the Spring Boot Swagger starter version 1.3.0.RELEASE, highlighting new host configuration and JSR‑303 annotation support, and provides step‑by‑step instructions, Maven dependency snippets, Java code, detailed property settings, grouping examples, and resource links for seamless API documentation integration.
This tutorial explains how to deploy a Spring Boot application on Heroku using both the web dashboard and the Heroku CLI, covering required Procfile configuration, GitHub integration, command-line installation, repository cloning, code push, log inspection, and app launch.
This guide shows how to quickly integrate Swagger2 into a Spring Boot 1.5.x application using the spring-boot-starter-swagger, covering Maven dependency setup, annotation usage, detailed property configuration for titles, versions, licenses, path rules, and advanced grouping features introduced in version 1.2.0.RELEASE.
This guide shows how to configure a Spring Boot multi‑module project using Gradle 3.3 to run SonarQube 5.6.6 analysis by adding the SonarQube plugin, setting repository and classpath, defining sonar properties, and executing the analysis with a simple Gradle command.
This article walks through building a Spring Boot application that protects HTTP endpoints using OAuth2, covering password and client‑credentials flows, Maven setup, resource and authorization server configuration, in‑memory users, token retrieval, and accessing secured resources with detailed code examples.
This guide explains how Spring Boot serves static assets from classpath directories, how to configure and access them, and how to render dynamic HTML pages using Thymeleaf—including template locations, sample code, and property customizations for seamless web development.
This guide explains how to define custom Spring Boot properties, load them with @Value, reference other properties, generate random values, override settings via command‑line arguments, and manage multiple environment profiles, complete with code samples and testing tips.
This guide compiles the most valuable Spring Boot and Spring Cloud learning materials—including official documentation, Git repositories, blog tutorials, video courses, and CSDN columns—providing developers with a comprehensive starting point to master these Java frameworks.
Learn how to launch several Spring Cloud microservice instances on a single machine without manually editing configuration files by leveraging random ports and adjusting Eureka instance IDs for proper registration.
Learn how to achieve near real‑time, time‑series monitoring of Spring Boot applications without writing code by combining Spring Boot Actuator, Jolokia, InfluxDB, Telegraf, and Grafana, while evaluating alternative tools like Prometheus, Graphite, and JMXTrans and understanding their limitations.
This article introduces the upcoming “Spring Cloud Practical Tips” series and focuses on version dependency issues, common Feign errors, and recommended version pairings, advising developers to follow official Spring Cloud compatibility charts and favor the latest Camden release with Spring Boot 1.4.x for enhanced features.
This guide explains how to integrate Spring Boot Actuator into a traditional Spring application by manually adding required Maven dependencies, importing core Actuator configuration classes, and defining beans that expose the /health and /metrics monitoring endpoints.
This guide explains how to personalize the Spring Boot startup banner by adding an ASCII‑art banner.txt file, using placeholder variables for colors and version information, and provides online tools for generating the required character art, making the process quick and enjoyable for developers.
This guide introduces Spring StateMachine, shows how to add the 1.2.0 release to a Spring Boot project, defines order‑related states and events, configures the state machine with annotations and Java code, and demonstrates a complete run that processes payment and receipt events.
This article explains the common pitfalls of manual Java deployment, introduces the concept of a closed‑loop Java application, and provides step‑by‑step Maven‑assembly and Spring Boot configurations, scripts, and code examples for both non‑web and web projects to achieve automated, reproducible deployments.
Spring Boot, the revolutionary Java framework, simplifies coding, configuration, deployment, and monitoring for backend developers by eliminating XML, offering embedded servers, starter POMs, auto‑configuration, and cloud integration, and this guide walks through its core features, code examples, and a step‑by‑step project setup in IntelliJ IDEA.
This article explains how to perform zero‑downtime deployments by handling database schema incompatibilities, covering both non‑backward‑compatible and backward‑compatible migration strategies, using Flyway with Spring Boot, and providing step‑by‑step guidance, code examples, A/B testing, and rollback procedures.
