In our previous post we deployed a Spring MVC app using embedded H2 database to Tomcat. Browsing the data in an embedded DB is difficult because we cannot connect an external client […]
Configure Embedded H2 Console With Spring MVC Application
How to Deploy Spring Application Without web.xml to Tomcat
Introduction Since the Servlet 3 specification web.xml is no longer needed for configuring your web application and has been replaced by using annotations. In this article, we will look at how to […]
Using Google reCaptcha with Spring Boot application
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 […]
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 […]
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’) […]
