Spring Boot Cookbook

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Spring Boot Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgment

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. 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

Chapter 2. 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

Chapter 3. 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

Chapter 4. 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

Chapter 5. 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

Chapter 6. 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

Chapter 7. 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