In this post we will be developing a full-blown CRUD application using Spring Boot, AngularJS, Spring Data, JPA/Hibernate and MySQL, learning the concepts in details along the way. This application can as well serve as a base/starting point for your own application. In addition, we will also use the notion of profiles to deploy the…

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Spring Boot complements Spring REST support by providing default dependencies/converters out of the box. Writing RESTful services in Spring Boot is no-different than Spring MVC. If you are a REST Client [Rest Consumer], Spring Boot provides RestTemplateBuilder that can be used to customize the RestTemplate before calling the REST endpoints. To summarize, Spring Boot based…

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Being able to start the application as standalone jar is great, but sometimes it might not be possible to run an app as jar [environment restrictions, company-wide regulations etc] and you have to build a WAR to be deployed into a traditional web/application server. Spring Boot helps us creating WAR using SpringBootServletInitializer. Following technologies stack…

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Spring framework has taken the software development industry by storm. Dependency Injection, rock solid MVC framework, Transaction management, messaging support, web-services etc are some of the aspects spring provides through its eco-system of related sub-frameworks. Convention over configuration is the most prominent key aspect Spring promotes. Spring-Boot which is build upon Spring foundation itself, takes…

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