Spring MVC

The Best Comments of February 2016

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

The Best Comments of January 2016

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

My Favorite Blog Posts of 2015

Yesterday I published 10 most popular blog posts which I wrote in 2015. I also promised to choose my favorite blog posts and publish that list on my blog. This year I decided to select blog posts that fulfill these requirements: The blog post was published during 2015 AND it wasn't one of my most […] Read more

Spring From the Trenches: Creating PDF Documents With Wkhtmltopdf

When we are writing a web application, we often face a requirement which states that our application must provide reporting to its users. Typically the users of our application want to see these reports on the user interface and have the possibility to export them as Excel and/or PDF documents. The problem is that creating […] 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