In this blog post, I am going to list commonly used POM.XML dependencies for building RESTful Web services with Spring Boot and Spring MVC. The list of below dependencies is not complete and will depend on the functionality you need your RESTful Web Services to support. But if you are building a simple REST API…
Read More Common POM.XML Dependencies for RESTful Web ServicesThe list of below video tutorials is a Quick Start to learning How to Build RESTful Web Services with Spring Framework. Spring Framework is large and there is so much to learn about it. And although there are so many tutorials on the Internet I still felt it would be helpful to create a series…
Read More RESTful Web Services with Spring Framework. Video TutorialsIn this tutorial, you will learn how to make a method in your Rest Controller class return a custom HTTP status code. To return a specific HTTP status code from a Spring Controller method in your application, you can use the ResponseEntity class. ResponseEntity with HTTP Status Code Let’s assume we have a simple web…
Read More Return Custom HTTP Status from Spring ControllerIn this tutorial, I will share how to add H2 In-memory database support to your Spring Boot project, which has Spring Security enabled. And at the end of this tutorial, you will find a video demonstration of how to do it. Once you do the steps below, your Spring Boot project will use the H2…
Read More Add H2 Database to Spring Boot Project with Spring SecurityIf your mobile or web app allows the user to register and have an account with your project then you also need to let users recover their lost or forgotten password. And in this video tutorial, I am going to share with you a few videos that will help you implement Password Reset functionality in your…
Read More Password Reset in REST API. Video tutorial.In this short tutorial, I am going to share with you how to enable CrossOrigin in a RESTful Web Service API built with Spring Boot that also has Spring Security enabled. Enable CrossOrigin for Specific Endpoint To enable cross-origin AJAX HTTP requests to a specific RESTful Web Service endpoint in our Rest Controller class we can use…
Read More CrossOrigin and CORS in RESTful Web ServiceIn this tutorial, we will create a Spring Boot application which demonstrates how we can add and use the H2 in-memory database in our application. You will learn how an in-memory database like H2 can be used to develop a Spring boot application without the overhead of doing DB configuration on your machine and without…
Read More Using H2 In-memory Database in Spring BootIn this blog post, I will share how to copy properties from a DTO object to an Entity object and then back from an Entity object to a DTO object. DTO stands for Data Transfer Object and is a simple, Plain Old Java Object which contains class properties and getter and setter methods for accessing…
Read More DTO to Entity and Entity to DTO ConversionWith this Spring Boot tutorial, I will share how to handle exceptions in your RESTful Web Service application build with Spring Boot. Read the “Handling Exceptions in Project Reactor” tutorial if you use a project reactor. And to learn how to test your code for Exceptions, read the “Test for Exceptions with the JUnit” tutorial. What…
Read More Handle Exceptions in Spring Boot RESTful ServiceIn this blog post, you will learn about three different ways to read application properties in the Spring Boot application. Read application.properties using Environment object, Read a property from application.properties file using @ConfigurationProperties and reading a property using the @Value annotation. To demonstrate how to read application properties in the Spring Boot application, I have created a very…
Read More Reading application.properties in Spring BootAdding logging support to your RESTful Web Service application with Spring Boot is extremely simple. To use Spring Boot logging, you do not need to add any additional dependencies or libraries to your web app project other than the spring-boot-starter-web dependency. If you are working on a Spring Boot Web or a Web Services project, you…
Read More Spring Boot Logging with LoggerFactoryIn this tutorial, you will learn how to add Spring Security to your project so that we can use Spring Security to encrypt user passwords. I assume you already have a project created with Spring Boot, but in case you do not have one, check out my blog post on how to “Create a very…
Read More Encrypt User Password with Spring SecurityIn this short blog post, I will share with you how to add MySQL support to your Spring Boot Web app, and with Spring Boot, it is very easy. If you are interested to learn how to add the JPA and MySQL support to your Spring Boot Web app and learn how to implement a…
Read More Add MySQL Support to Spring Boot Web AppWith this blog post, I am going to share with you how to run a Spring Boot app from a command line in a Terminal window. There are a couple of ways and both assume that you have already created your Spring Boot app. To learn how to create a new Spring Boot app please…
Read More Run Spring Boot App from a Command LineWhen building RESTful Web Services with Spring Boot, we can either package our Spring Boot App as an executable JAR file and run it with built-in Tomcat, or we can create a deployable WAR file and then deploy it into a stand along Tomcat or Jetty. With this blog post, I will share how to edit…
Read More Create a Deployable WAR File with Spring Boot