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Getting the current Subversion Revision Number in Gradle

A common use case for build tools like Ant, Maven or Gradle is to retrieve the current revision number of the project sources in the Version Control System (VCS), in many cases Subversion (SVN).

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‘Code First’ API Documentation with Springdoc and Spring Boot

When following a “code first” approach in API development, we first start with writing code, and then we generate the API specification from the code, which then becomes the documentation.

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Marrying Vue.js and Thymeleaf: Embedding Javascript Components in Server-Side Templates

In the good old days, we implemented web applications with a server-side web framework. The browser sends a request to the server, the server processes the request and answers with HTML, the browser renders that HTML.

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REST with Hypermedia - Hot or Not?

Believing Roy Fielding, who first coined the REST acronym, you may call your API a REST API only if you make use of hypertext.

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