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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Zuul API Gateway to enable the load balancing of your RESTful Web Services registered with Eureka Discovery Service. For a step by step series of video lessons, please check this page: Spring Boot Microservices and Spring Cloud. Because Zuul API Gateway internally uses Ribbon Load Balancer…

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Web Service or a Microservice and how to make it register with Eureka Discovery Server. For a step-by-step series of video lessons, please check this page: Spring Boot Microservices and Spring Cloud. Start Eureka Discovery Server To be able to follow this tutorial, you will…

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Spring Boot has a nice feature that enables the application to automatically restart when you change your Java code. This automatic restart of your application is often called Hot Swap. Spring Boot Dev Tools Dependency To enable your Spring Boot application to automatically restart when you make a change to your Java code, add the…

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This tutorial will teach you how to use constructor-based dependency injection(DI) in Spring Framework when building RESTful Web Services. Read the following tutorial to learn about the different types of dependency injection in Spring and which one may be better suited for your specific use case. Constructor-Based Dependency Injection Overview Constructor-based dependency injection is a…

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the @Autowired and @Qualifier annotations to inject a specific instance of a Bean. Sometimes you might have more than one implementation of an interface. If you do not explicitly specify which one you would like to inject, you will get a NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException when starting your application. Let’s…

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In this short Spring Boot tutorial, you will learn how to pass command-line arguments to your Spring Boot application. Passing Command-Line Arguments To pass command line arguments to your Spring Boot app when running it with Maven use the -Dspring-boot.run.arguments. In the below code example, I will pass two command-line arguments: firstName and lastName. mvn spring-boot:run…

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to read HTTP Request Header in the Rest Controller class of your Spring Boot application. To read HTTP Request Header in Spring Boot REST application, we use @RequestHeader annotation. @RequestHeader(value=”Accept”) String acceptHeader To learn how to test if HTTP Header is received, read the tutorial about Testing HTTP Header…

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In this Swagger tutorial, I am going to share with you how to add Contact and API information to your RESTful Web Service documentation created with Swagger. When adding Swagger to our RESTful Web Service, we usually create a new configuration Java Class which is then annotated with @Configuration annotation. Below is an example of…

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If your project uses Spring Security and you have added Swagger/OpenAPI to it, there is a little additional configuration you need to do in order to make your /v3/api-docs and swagger-ui.html pages work. Enable Swagger URLs in Spring Security Project To enable Swagger URLs in a RESTful Web Services project built with Spring Boot and…

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to add Swagger or an OpenAPI support to your Spring Boot project so that you can start documenting your REST API. To be able to follow this tutorial you will need to have your REST API Spring Boot project created. If you do not have one, here is…

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