Spring MVC

If we need to figure out the runtime configuration of a Spring web application that is deployed to a remote server, we need to the read the properties file found from the remote server. This is cumbersome. Luckily, there is a better way. This blog post describes how we can Write the runtime configuration to […] Read More

Asciidoc is a text based document format, and that is why it is very useful if we want to commit our documents into a version control system and track the changes between different versions. This makes Asciidoc a perfect tool for writing books, technical documents, FAQs, or user’s manuals. After we have created an Asciidoc […] Read More

I noticed that Eugen Paraschiv wrote a blog post which lists the most popular articles of 2013 which were published at his website/blog in 2013. Because I think that it is a great idea, I decided to publish my own list as well. Here is my list (all blog posts were published in 2013): Unit […] Read More

The first part of this tutorial described how we can configure Spring Social 1.1.0 and Spring Security 3.2.0 but it left two very important questions unanswered. These questions are: How can a user create a new user account? How can a user log in? It is time to get our hands dirty and answer to […] Read More

In the good old days users logged in by using the combination of username and password. Although nowadays some people still prefer the traditional way, a growing number of users want to sign in by using their social media accounts. This is a what makes Spring Social (and its sub projects) an useful addition to […] Read More

This blog post is outdated! If you want to learn how you can write unit tests for a Spring MVC REST API, you should take a look at my updated Spring MVC Test tutorial. It describes how you can write unit tests for a Spring MVC REST API with JUnit 5. Spring MVC provides an […] Read More