Category Archives: Spring Framework

Small hack to avoid SSL validation in Spring RestTemplate

Posted on 13/08/2017 by Pascal Alma

As you might notice from my previous posts I am a big fan of Spring Framework. A few weeks back, for example, I needed to set up a REST API client to be able to test some things in our … Continue reading →

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Use Spring Cloud Config as externalized configuration

Posted on 03/04/2017 by Pascal Alma

One of the most important practices when it comes to continuous delivery is building your binaries only once and use that one in the different environments (dev, test, acceptance, etc). This means that most likely you will need to externalize … Continue reading →

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Pipeline as code with a Spring Boot application

Posted on 08/03/2017 by Pascal Alma

This is the last in a serie of posts about continuous delivery based on my local Docker compose stack (see the first and second post here). In this post I use a simple Spring Boot project to show how to … Continue reading →

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Configuring the Elastic Load Balancer of your Elastic Beanstalk application

Posted on 04/08/2016 by Pascal Alma

In my previous post I showed how to run a Spring Boot application on AWS using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. In that post I mention that it is possible to bypass the default Nginx instance on the EC2 instance and have … Continue reading →

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Run your Spring Boot application on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk

Posted on 12/07/2016 by Pascal Alma

Although I previously wrote how easy it is to get your Spring Boot application up and running on AWS by using Boxfuse I think it is good idea to have notion of some alternative ways to achieve the same. One … Continue reading →

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Validating JWT with Spring Boot and Spring Security

Posted on 27/05/2016 by Pascal Alma

For my current project I will have a REST API set up with Spring Boot (most likely running with BoxFuse). To be able to use the API endpoint the application will check that the incoming request has a valid JWT … Continue reading →

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Make running your Spring Boot application in the cloud super easy with Boxfuse

Posted on 25/04/2016 by Pascal Alma

A few days ago I started building an iOS app that would be using a REST API to retrieve and store data. This REST API would be a server application that I also have to build. Since I am familiair … Continue reading →

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Creating a Message Driven Bean with AWS SQS in Spring

Posted on 05/05/2015 by Pascal Alma

In my previous post I showed a simple example how to use AWS SQS with Spring Framework to put messages on a queue and to read them from the queue. In this post I go one step further and use … Continue reading →

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Using AWS SQS as JMS provider with Spring

Posted on 21/04/2015 by Pascal Alma

Recently AWS published a new client library that implements the JMS 1.1 specification and uses their Simple Queue Service (SQS) as the JMS provider (see Jeff Barr’s post here). In my post I will show you how to set up … Continue reading →

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Up And Running With Spring Framework 4 In Five Hours

Posted on 29/06/2014 by Pascal Alma

I recently was invited to follow an online training at Udemy to get up to speed with Spring 4. Now most of the time I am not really interested in the subject of the offered trainings but as an open … Continue reading →

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