There is no international standards organization that specifies the criteria a Spring Boot application has to satisfy to qualify as a microservice. The closest thing developers have to a set of ...

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 ...

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HTMX is a newer technology that takes plain old HTML and gives it extra powers like Ajax and DOM swaps. It’s included in my personal list of good ideas because it eliminates a whole realm of ...

Spring MVC is the Spring framework’s traditional library for building Java web applications. It is one of the most popular web frameworks for building fully functional Java web applications and ...

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 ...

There has been so much headline-grabbing Java news lately -- the release of Java SE 10, the renaming of enterprise Java to Jakarta EE, and yesterday's news about Oracle v. Google-- you might have ...

When it comes to building microservices and applications that thrive in the cloud, developers are faced with a critical choice: which Java framework to use? Two standout options are Spring Boot vs ...