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Spring Boot Cookbook

By : Alex Antonov
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Spring Boot Cookbook

By: Alex Antonov

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Spring Boot Cookbook
Alex Antonov
Sep, 2015 | 206 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Spring Boot Cookbook
Spring Boot Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with Spring Boot
Getting Started with Spring Boot
Introduction
Using a Spring Boot template and starters
Creating a simple application
Launching an application using Gradle
Using the command-line runners
Setting up a database connection
Setting up a data repository service
Scheduling executors
2
Configuring Web Applications
Configuring Web Applications
Creating a basic RESTful application
Creating a Spring Data REST service
Configuring custom servlet filters
Configuring custom interceptors
Configuring custom HttpMessageConverters
Configuring custom PropertyEditors
Configuring custom type Formatters
3
Web Framework Behavior Tuning
Web Framework Behavior Tuning
Introduction
Configuring route matching patterns
Configuring custom static path mappings
Tuning Tomcat via EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer
Choosing embedded servlet containers
Adding custom connectors
4
Writing Custom Spring Boot Starters
Writing Custom Spring Boot Starters
Introduction
Understanding Spring Boot autoconfiguration
Creating a custom Spring Boot autoconfiguration starter
Configuring custom conditional bean instantiations
Using custom @Enable* annotations to toggle configurations
5
Application Testing
Application Testing
Introduction
Creating tests for Spring MVC Controllers
Automatically configuring the database schema and populating it with data
Creating tests using in-memory database with data fixtures
Creating tests using Mockito to mock DB
Writing tests using Cucumber
Writing tests using Spock
6
Application Packaging and Deployment
Application Packaging and Deployment
Introduction
Creating a Spring Boot executable JAR
Creating Docker images
Building self-executing binaries
Spring Boot environment config hierarchy and precedence
Externalizing environmental config using property files
Externalizing environmental config using environment variables
Externalizing environmental config using Java system properties
Setting up Consul
Externalizing environmental config using Consul and envconsul
7
Health Monitoring and Data Visualization
Health Monitoring and Data Visualization
Introduction
Writing custom health indicators
Emitting metrics
Monitoring Spring Boot via JMX
Management of Spring Boot via CRaSH and writing custom remote shell commands
Integrating Codahale/Dropwizard metrics with Graphite
Integrating Codahale/Dropwizard metrics with Dashing
Index
Index

Chapter 2. Configuring Web Applications

In the previous chapter, we learned how to create a starting application template, add some basic functionalities, and set up a connection to a database. In this chapter, we will continue to evolve our BookPub application and give it a web presence.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

  • Creating a basic RESTful application

  • Creating a Spring Data REST service

  • Configuring custom servlet filters

  • Configuring custom interceptors

  • Configuring custom HttpMessageConverters

  • Configuring custom PropertyEditors

  • Configuring custom type Formatters

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