In Spring, Controllers allow external consumers to use REST APIs to call into the application logic. This is very convenient, since we don’t need to write a whole translation level. Spring controllers give us full access to the request parameters and headers, and allows us to create a response and Read more…
Hibernate and JPA have done a lot for developers in minimizing the code needed to write database applications. Spring Data does a lot of magic behind the code for us, and we’d like to take advantage of that magic. Let’s start with the basics: In JPA we’re mapping objects to Read more…
Today we’ll tackle JDBC options for testing in Spring. Before we start, there’s one more annotation to learn from Spring: @Repository. We put it on a class to tell Spring that this is a data class, talking to a data source. A @Repository is basically a component or a bean. Read more…
We’ve discussed what Spring can do for us in terms of integration tests so far, but nothing says more integration than database integration. First, let’s define what we want in our integration tests, before we describe how the wonderful people of Spring and Spring Boot help us achieve it. In Read more…
We already know that Spring is complex. And we’ve just scratched the surface. One of the problem with complex frameworks is that they do so much, that when something goes wrong they are not that smart about analyzing the situation. And that really gets in our way of doing actual Read more…
