Spring Boot provides utilities for quick and easy setup of Spring Security via auto-configuration and Java-based configuration. The getting started guide is quick and easy leads through configuring an in-memory AuthenticationManager in just minutes. Going beyond these examples, this installation will quickly review the getting started guide provided at Spring.io, and conclude with the configuration […]
One of the many features provided by Spring Boot’s automatic configuration is a ResourceBundleMessageSource. This is the foundation of the support for internationalization provided by Spring as part of Spring Boot. However, resolving the user’s current locale, and being able to switch locales on demand is a little trickier, and is something that I had […]
Welcome back. Now that we have Thymeleaf view templates rendering in our Spring Boot test app, the next logical topic is learning how to bind java objects to forms in these views for processing. In this installment, we’ll cover binding a simple object to a form and then take a step deeper and bind an […]
In Part 1 of this series, we set up a sample application using Spring Boot and some of it’s default configuration options. Now that we’ve got the shell of an application, we can start adding content to our application. By adding a single dependency to our project and using Spring Boot’s auto configuration settings, we […]
In the last post we talked about configuring Spring MVC for use as a RESTful API with the intention of using ExtJs for the UI work. In this post, I’ll review the ExtJs configuration work and highlight some of the important aspects of the project. I’ve included an example interface that will work with our […]
My latest adventures have taken me to a client replacing legacy Flex apps with ExtJs apps backed by Spring. In this two part post, you’ll see the product of the many bits of documentation, examples and blog posts I had to cobble together to get this set up, in hopes that it will serve as […]
As I mentioned earlier, I recently moved back to the Java world after a brief and enjoyable foray into Groovy & Grails. After a few minutes of becoming reacquainted with Spring MVC, I found myself wanting to make my Spring MVC app behave more like a Grails app. I’m lazy, what can I say? The […]
It’s been a while! Later this week, I’ll be posting on reliving the Grails dream with some tweaks to Spring MVC. Stay tuned.
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