Spring Data JPA Tutorial: Adding Custom Methods to All Repositories

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

The Best Comments of November 2015

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

Spring From the Trenches: Creating a Custom HandlerMethodArgumentResolver

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

The Best Comments of October 2015

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

Spring From the Trenches: Using Type Converters With Spring MVC

A few weeks ago we learned how we can parse date and time information from a request parameter by using the @DateTimeFormat annotation. This is a simple and clean solution that works very well if we don't have "too many" controller methods that use this approach. The drawback of this solution is that we have […] Read more

The Best Comments of September 2015

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