In the previous part of my Spring Data Solr tutorial, we learned that Solr provides a REST-like HTTP API which can be used to add information to Solr index and execute queries against indexed data. The problem is that running a separate Solr instance in a development environment is a bit cumbersome. However, not all […] Read more

Most of the applications must have a some kind of a search function. The problem is that search functions are often huge resource hogs and they can kill the performance of our application by causing heavy load to the database. That is why transferring that load to an external search server is a great idea. […] Read more

Solr is an open source search server that is built by using the indexing and search capabilities of Lucene Core, and it can be used for implementing scalable search engines with almost any programming language. Even though Solr has many advantages, setting up a development environment is not one of them. This blog post fixes […] Read more

When Spring Framework 3.2 was released, spring-test-mvc was officially included in this release under the name Spring MVC Test Framework. Although many things remained the same, there are some changes that might cause confusion when we are migrating our applications from Spring Framework 3.1 to 3.2. This blog entry was written to help us to […] Read more

In the previous parts of my spring-test-mvc tutorial, we learned to write integration tests for our controllers. However, we have not talked about security yet, even though securing our data is a crucial part of (almost) every application. This is the sixth part of my spring-test-mvc tutorial and it will teach us to write integration […] Read more