Deploy Spring Boot WAR to Tomcat Server
1. Overview Spring Boot includes an embedded Tomcat server which makes it easy to run web applications. The application code, libraries, and embedded Tomcat server are packaged in an executable JAR…
Setting up Apache Tomcat 9 in Windows
1. Overview Simply put, Apache Tomcat is a web server and servlet container that is used to deploy and serve Java web applications. In this quick article, we're going to show how…
Uploading Multiple Files with Spring Boot
Overview Uploading files to a website isn't an uncommon task, but it also isn't very straightforward to achieve. Some use-cases for why you'd want to upload a file to a…
Building web applications with Spring Boot and Kotlin
This tutorial shows you how to build efficiently a sample blog application by combining the power of Spring Boot and Kotlin. If you are starting with Kotlin, you can learn the language by…
Spring boot custom JSON Serialize – Deserialize Example
1. Overview This quick article is focused on how to use the @JsonComponent annotation in Spring Boot. The annotation allows us to expose an annotated class to be a Jackson serializer and/or…
GitHub announces native Android and iOS apps alongside new features
GitHub has announced native mobile apps for Android and iOS alongside several new features during its annual Universe conference. The world’s largest repo host first launched an Android app back…
Custom Banners in Spring Boot
1. Overview By default, Spring Boot comes with a banner that shows up as soon as the application starts. In this article, we'll learn how to create a custom banner…
Spring Boot with a Custom Parent
1. Overview Spring Boot provides the parent POM for the easier creation of Spring Boot applications. Not everyone likes inheriting from the spring-boot-starter-parent POM to create an executable jar/war. You may have your own…
Shutdown a Spring Boot Application
1. Overview Managing the lifecycle of Spring Boot Application is very important for a production-ready system. The Spring container handles the creation, initialization, and destruction of all the Beans with…
Managing Spring Boot Exit Code
1. Overview Every application returns exit code on exit; this code can be any integer value including negative values. In this quick tutorial, we're going to find out how we…