Many people use containers to wrap their Spring Boot applications, and building containers is not a simple thing to do. This is a guide for developers of Spring Boot applications, and containers are not always a good abstraction for developers. They force you to learn about and think about low-level concerns. However, you may on occasion be called on to create or use a container, so it pays to und

Getting started with Spring Cloud can be daunting. If you have seen the great Josh Long give his Cloud Native Java presentation, you will notice that you need to create several supporting applications before you can see your application at work. Spring Cloud CLI Launcher As part of the transition from Spring XD to Spring Cloud Dataflow, one of the extracted projects is called the Spring Cloud Depl

NOTE: Revised April 2018 Spring MVC provides several complimentary approaches to exception handling but, when teaching Spring MVC, I often find that my students are confused or not comfortable with them. Today I'm going to show you the various options available. Our goal is to not handle exceptions explicitly in Controller methods where possible. They are a cross-cutting concern better handled sep

I was thrilled to see in a recent survey from zeroturnaround that Spring MVC was voted the most popular web framework for Java. This framework is very flexible and there are dozens of ways to use it. As with all flexible frameworks that have many options, it is important to discuss common practices. The project I have created for this blog entry uses features common in many Spring MVC applications

Projects From configuration to security, web apps to big data—whatever the infrastructure needs of your application may be, there is a Spring Project to help you build it. Start small and use just what you need—Spring is modular by design. Spring Boot Takes an opinionated view of building Spring applications and gets you up and running as quickly as possible. Spring Framework Provides core support

Upgrading Maven integration for SpringSource Tool Suite 2.8.0 UPDATE, Nov 23: We have released STS 2.8.1, that fixes many of the install/uninstall of m2eclipse issues that people were having. Read the release announcement. Now, it is possible to upgrade/downgrade m2eclipse easily. STS 2.8.1 fully supports both versions of m2eclipse. Today, we released version 2.8.0 of the SpringSource Tool Suite.

Level up your Java™ code With Spring Boot in your app, just a few lines of code is all you need to start building services like a boss. New to Spring? Try our simple quickstart guide. Most [of our] services today are all based on Spring Boot. I think the most important thing is that [Spring] has just been very well maintained over the years...that is important for us for the long term because we d