Publishing with Gradle into Artifactory

In order to publish your project artifact into Artifactory, you need to define publication details in your build.gradle file. First you need to define the Artifactory server and credentials for deploying your artifact. In the "artifactory" you can define the target repository even dynamically. In my example the repository URL depends on the type of the…

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Spring cache and integration testing

Using caches in a Spring application is relatively easy. It makes the overall performance better, but opens some exciting problems when it comes to integration testing the application.  Adding caching behavior to a functionality without properly thinking over the consequences, is one of the biggest mistakes, a beginner programmer can make. You must have full…

Using Gradle Distribution plug-in

Recently I had to configure the Gradle Distribution plugin for a microservice application, in order to work the same way as the Maven Assembly plugin. This plugin makes it possible to create a tar.gz distribution file for our Spring Boot microservices. It contains the runnable Spring Boot jar file and all necessary configuration files. To…

Define multiple ports for Spring Boot Application

It is sometimes needed to listen to more than one ports with a Spring Boot application. It can be handy, if You need to provide REST API via HTTPS protocol, but you want to provide your diagnostic tool a HTTP port to get application information. You want to hide some of your application's feature behind…

My favorite Lombok features

I use the Lombok project with a great pleasure. It makes it easier to create a nice code without boilerplate code. My favorite features @Data Maybe the most used annotation. Generates all boilerplate code for a domain object. Getters, setters, equals, hashcode, toString. It is a very good feature to start with. You will never…

Batching database operations with Spring and Hibernate

Recently I needed to do some database performance optimization for a Spring Boot application. The application persisted a huge amount of log like data to the Oracle database via Spring JPA. With Hibernate and Spring Data JPA it was not really deficient to write this data, due to the time of single datasource, transaction and…