I have a toolkit that helps me to do my job. It is not easy to earn a place in my toolkit because I want that my tools make my life easier. This means that they must be easy to use (or easy to learn). Unfortunately the world is full of useful development tools that […] Read more
The RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) is a YAML-based language that is used for describing REST(ful) APIs. I like the RAML syntax because it's text based, versatile, and easy to use. However, when I publish a REST API, I must provide readable API documentation or no one will use my API. This blog post describes […] Read more
The previous part of this tutorial taught us how we can add custom methods into a single repository. Although that is a very useful skill, it doesn't help us when we have to add the same method into all repositories of our application. Luckily for us, Spring Data provides a way to add custom methods […] Read more
I think that the best part of writing a blog is to get comments from my readers. Because I have learned a lot from my readers, I want to “reward” the best comments, help you to learn new things, and (hopefully) encourage people to leave more comments. The rules are simple: I select X best […] Read more
A few weeks ago we learned to transform the value of a single request parameter into an object, which is passed to our controller method as a method parameter, by using Spring type converters. Using type converters is a good choice if we want to create "simple" value objects and inject these objects into our […] Read more
I think that the best part of writing a blog is to get comments from my readers. Because I have learned a lot from my readers, I want to “reward” the best comments, help you to learn new things, and (hopefully) encourage people to leave more comments. The rules are simple: I select X best […] Read more