Spring Boot

Bean Validation Anti-Patterns

Tom Hombergs
September 7, 2019

Bean Validation is the de-facto standard for implementing validation logic in the Java ecosystem and it’s a great tool to have around.

Spring Boot

Quick Guide to Building a Spring Boot Starter

Tom Hombergs
August 30, 2019

There are certain cross-cutting concerns that we don’t want to implement from scratch for each Spring Boot application we’re building. Instead, we want to implement those features once and include them into any application as needed.

Spring Boot

Building a Multi-Module Spring Boot Application with Gradle

Tom Hombergs
June 28, 2019

The Spring Initializr is a great way to quickly create a Spring Boot application from scratch. It creates a single Gradle file that we can expand upon to grow our application.

Spring Boot

Paging with Spring Boot

Tom Hombergs
March 31, 2019

As a user of a web application we’re expecting pages to load quickly and only show the information that’s relevant to us.

Spring Boot

Configuring a Spring Boot Module with @ConfigurationProperties

Tom Hombergs
March 18, 2019

Every application above play size requires some parameters at startup. These parameters may, for instance, define which database to connect to, which locale to support or which logging level to apply.