Introduction reCaptcha by Google is a library used to prevent bots from submitting data to your public forms or accessing your public data. In this post, we will look at how to integrate reCaptcha with a Spring Boot based web… Read More ›
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Using Gmail as SMTP server from Java, Spring Boot apps
Gmail users can use Gmail’s SMTP server smtp.gmail.com to send emails from their Spring Boot apps. For this let us do some setup in the app: Provide SMTP connection properties in the application.properties file: spring.mail.host=smtp.gmail.com spring.mail.username=<your gmail/google app email> spring.mail.password=***** spring.mail.port=587… Read More ›
Gotcha: Migrating from Spring Security 3.2.x to Spring Security 4.x
Here is a simple gotcha to keep in mind while migrating to newer Spring Security version 4.x from Spring Security 3.2.x What’s the problem? The Spring security configuration expressions hasRole(‘role_name’) and hasAuthority(‘role_name’) are no longer the same. The catch is:… Read More ›
New @RequestParam annotations in Spring Boot 1.4 (Spring Framework 4.3)
Earlier in Spring/Spring Boot to Map a GET or POST or DELETE or any HTTP method request handler we would write something like below: But with Springframework 4.3 and Spring Boot 1.4 (which now uses Springframework 4.3) we have some… Read More ›
