Any nontrivial software project contains a nontrivial amount of so-called business logic. What exactly constitutes business logic is debatable. In the mountains of code produced for a typical software ...

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Spring profiles are an advanced feature in Spring Boot. That's not to say they are difficult to understand -- they're actually very straightforward. However, new Spring developers often brush over the ...

Microsoft has announced the availability of VS Code Spring Boot Application Development Extension Pack (aka Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code). This collection of extensions for developing and ...

When we unit test Spring MVC applications, we test each layer separately from the others. We create mock implementations, typically using Mockito, for each layer’s dependencies, then we simulate the ...

Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...