Spring Boot

This tutorial will guide you on how to incorporate JUnit support into your Spring Boot application based on Maven. Introduction Brief Explanation of JUnit and Its Importance in Testing JUnit is a popular open-source testing framework for Java applications. It provides a set of tools and methods for writing and running automated tests, making it…

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In the software development process, testing is essential. There are two types of testing i.e. unit testing and integration testing. While unit testing focuses on testing the smallest component of an application, integration testing focuses on testing the end-to-end behavior of the application also known as endpoint testing. Integration testing verifies the @Controller and @RestController…

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This tutorial will teach you how to use project Lombok in the Spring Boot application. Overview No doubt Java is a wonderful language, but one of the drawbacks of Java is its verbose nature. This makes it fairly complicated for everyday tasks such as composing a simple POJO object. For example, constructing of methods like Getters(), Setters(),…

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This tutorial will teach you how to add Spring Security to your project and enable in-memory basic authentication. You will learn how to configure two different users with different Roles and Privileges. Both users’ roles and privileges will be stored in the memory of your Spring Boot application. If you use Spring Framework and OAuth,…

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In this article, you will learn how to perform user authentication with Amazon Cognito in a Spring Boot application. But before we dive into that, let’s first explore what Amazon Cognito is. According to what’s mentioned on the AWS official website: Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web…

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This tutorial will teach you how to start your Spring Boot application on a random port number. Starting an application on a random port number is very helpful when you need to start multiple instances of the same Spring Boot application and then balance HTTP requests between the running instances. If you want to learn…

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In this article, we will learn about Many-to-Many relationships in JPA and how to implement them in a Spring Boot application. Let’s get started! @ManytoMany annotation A many-to-many relationship occurs when multiple records in one table are associated with multiple records in another table. The @ManyToMany annotation is used to define a many-valued association with…

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In this Spring Security tutorial, you will learn how to enable Basic Authentication for your Spring Boot project and configure the default username, password and user role. You will also learn how to secure a web service request URL so only authenticated users with a default username, password and role can access it. If you use…

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In this tutorial, you will learn what the @Respository annotation is and how to use it in your Spring Boot applications. @Repository is a Spring annotation that indicates that the decorated class is a repository. A repository is a mechanism for encapsulating storage, retrieval, and search behaviour which emulates a collection of objects. How to…

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In Spring Boot 3, the authorizeRequests() method of the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter class has been deprecated. This method was previously used to configure the authorization rules for securing web applications. To secure your application in Spring Boot 3 using Spring Security, you should use the HttpSecurity class and its authorizeHttpRequests() method instead. You can use the authorizeHttpRequests() method…

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In this tutorial, you will learn what @Scope annotation is and how to use it in Spring. @Scope is a Spring annotation used to specify a bean’s lifecycle. It can be used to define the lifecycle of a bean as a singleton, prototype, request, session, or global session. If you are interested to learn about other…

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