January 28, 2019
Spring MVC - How to handle errors from a controller?
In a web application, it is very important to handle errors. Proper error handling would protect the application from several vulnerabiliti...Read Moreby Phee Jay
September 02, 2017
Spring - Initializing a Spring Bean
In Spring, it's often necessary to run custom code during a bean's initialization—for example, to validate mandatory properties or ...Read Moreby Phee Jay
July 12, 2017
Spring - Lookup Method or Method Injection
Most common injection mechanisms used in Spring are Constructor and Property injections. In both the mechanisms, the injection happens only...Read Moreby Phee Jay
April 28, 2017
How to Create Custom Namespaces and Handlers in Spring
Custom namespaces in spring are a way to replace the complex bean definitions with a more user-friendly configuration. Spring itself pro...Read Moreby Phee Jay
April 13, 2017
Localization with Spring
Localization enables applications to cater to users of different locations and languages. Spring, as usual, has support for this aspect as ...Read Moreby Phee Jay
March 29, 2017
Spring Boot - How to Create a Deployable War
Spring boot , by default, enables you to create standalone applications through simple, minimal configurations. And due to its self-contain...Read Moreby Phee Jay
March 09, 2017
Spring Cache - Part 5 - CacheEvict
In the Spring Cache series so far ( Part1 , Part2 , Part3 , Part4 ), we have seen examples where the data is getting added to the cache thr...Read Moreby Phee Jay
March 02, 2017
Spring Cache - Part 4 - CachePut
There are scenarios, unlike retrievals, where you do not want to skip the execution of the method e.g. insert/update of a record. Such met...Read Moreby Phee Jay
March 01, 2017
Spring Cache - Part 3 - Conditional Cache
In this part of the tutorial, we will see how data can be cached conditionally. (If you haven't checked the previous parts, please vi...Read Moreby Phee Jay
February 25, 2017
Spring Cache - Part 2 - Cache Keys
In part 1 of the post, we looked at how data can be cached through simple configuration. In this part, we are going to explore the cache k...Read Moreby Phee Jay
February 23, 2017
Spring Cache - Part 1 - Introduction
Caching is an extremely important aspect of applications that care about lower latencies. There are a multitude of rules one has to adher...Read Moreby Phee Jay
February 15, 2017
How to Timeout JDBC Queries
JDBC queries by default do not have any timeout, which means that a query can block the thread for an unlimited amount time; of co...Read Moreby Phee Jay
February 09, 2017
Overriding Spring Beans with Aliases
The most common approach followed for overriding a spring bean is to define...Read Moreby Phee Jay
June 26, 2015
ETags and Browser Cache
Caching resources on the browser is crucial to minimize unnecessary trips to the server and reduce the load on it. This works well for d...Read Moreby Phee Jay
October 18, 2010
What Is a SessionAttributeStore? When to Use It?
In one of my projects, I had an abstract controller class that simulated the form controller of Spring 1.2 for session forms. Annotatio...Read Moreby Phee Jay
October 18, 2010
Spring MVC - mvc:annotation-driven - What does it do?
The annotations based MVC was introduced to the framework in Spring 2.5. This model enables the developer to reuse any POJO as a control...Read Moreby Phee Jay