Configuration file used in Spring boot projects is application.properties. It is very important file as it is used to override all default configurations.
Spring boot contains embedded Tomcat, Jetty and undertow servers.
Spring Boot includes support for embedded Tomcat, Jetty, and Undertow servers. By default the embedded server will listen for HTTP requests on port 8080.
As discussed earlier, Spring boot makes it easier for you to create Spring application, it can save a lot of time and efforts.
For example: Let’s say you want to create Spring boot project with activeMQ. You can simply use “spring–boot–starter–activemq” as artifact Id, it will take all the defaults and create Spring application with ActiveMQ configured. Let’s say you don’t want to use inbuilt activeMQ, you can simply override “spring.activemq.broker-url” in application.properties to use external ActiveMQ.
Spring boot comes with DevTools which is introduced to increase the productivity of developer. You don’t need to deploy your application every time you make the changes.Developer can simply reload the changes without restart of the server. It avoids pain of deploying application every time when you make any change. This module will be disabled in production environment.
Spring boot provides a lot of properties which can be overridden by specifying them in application.properties.
For example: You want to specify prefix and suffix in Spring MVC applications. You can simply do it by putting below properties in application.properties.
spring.mvc.view.prefix: /WEB-INF/
spring.mvc.view.suffix: .jsp
Include following maven dependency in the application.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>springloaded</artifactId>
<version>1.2.6.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
Automatic restart
Applications that use spring-boot-devtools will automatically restart whenever files on the classpath change. This can be a useful feature when working in an IDE as it gives a very fast feedback loop for code changes. By default, any entry on the classpath that points to a folder will be monitored for changes.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
This can be achieved using DEV Tools. With this dependency any changes you save, the embedded tomcat will restart. Spring Boot has a Developer tools (DevTools) module which helps to improve the productivity of developers. One of the key challenge for the Java developers is to auto deploy the file changes to server and auto restart the server. Developers can reload changes on Spring Boot without having to restart my server. This will eliminates the need for manually deploying the changes every time. Spring Boot doesn’t have this feature when it has released it’s first version. This was a most requested features for the developers. The module DevTools does exactly what is needed for the developers. This module will be disabled in the production environment.
There is no force to go container less
No, it is not possible as of now. Spring boot is limited to Spring applications only.
You can simply put server.port properties in application.properties.
For example:server.port=8050.
Spring boot comes with a lot of starters which is set of convenient dependency descriptors which you can include in your pom.xml.
For example: Let’s say you want to work Spring MVC application, you can simply include “spring–boot–starter–web” as dependency in pom.xml .
Spring Boot comes with embedded ActiveMQ.We need to use “spring–boot–starter–activemq” dependency in pom.xml and it will take care of all defaults and will configure ActiveMQ in the project.
If you want to configure external ActiveMQ then you need to just put “spring.activemq.broker-url” in application.properties and provide the URL of external ActiveMQ.
First of all Spring Boot is not a framework, it is a way to ease to create stand-alone application with minimal or zero configurations. It is approach to develop spring based application with very less configuration. It provides defaults for code and annotation configuration to quick start new spring projects within no time. It leverages existing spring projects as well as Third party projects to develop production ready applications. It provides a set of Starter Pom’s or gradle build files which one can use to add required dependencies and also facilitate auto configuration.
Spring Boot automatically configures required classes depending on the libraries on its classpath. Suppose your application want to interact with DB, if there are Spring Data libraries on class path then it automatically sets up connection to DB along with the Data Source class.
In spring boot, we have to define properties in the application.properties file exists in classpath of application as follow.
Example: configure default DataSource bean.
database.host=localhost
database.user=admin
The configuration file used in spring boot projects is application.properties. This file is very important where we would over write all the default configurations. Normally we have to keep this file under the resources folder of the project.
Implementation of Spring security in Spring boot application requires very little configuration. You need to add spring-boot-starter-security starter in pom.xml.You need to create Spring config class which will extend WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter and override required method to achieve security in Spring boot application.
Spring Boot Actuator is a sub-project of Spring Boot. It adds several production grade services to your application with little effort on your part. There are also has many features added to your application out-of-the-box for managing the service in a production (or other) environment. They’re mainly used to expose different types of information about the running application – health, metrics, info, dump, env etc.
Add spring security starter to the boot application
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
Starters are a set of convenient dependency descriptors that you can include in your application. The starters contain a lot of the dependencies that you need to get a project up and running quickly and with a consistent, supported set of managed transitive dependencies.
The starter POMs are convenient dependency descriptors that can be added to your application’s Maven. In simple words, if you are developing a project that uses Spring Batch for batch processing, you just have to include spring-boot-starter-batch that will import all the required dependencies for the Spring Batch application. This reduces the burden of searching and configuring all the dependencies required for a framework.
In application.properties, add following property.
server.port = 8181.
It is very tough and time consuming process to convert existing or legacy Spring Framework projects into Spring Boot Applications. It is applicable only for brand new/Greenfield Spring Projects.
Use either spring-boot-starter-jdbc or spring-boot-starterdata-jpa and include a JDBC driver on classpath
Declare properties:
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/test
spring.datasource.username=dbuser
spring.datasource.password=dbpass
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
Yes, we can control logging with spring boot.
Customizing default Configuration for Logging:
By adding logback.xml file to the application we can override the default logging configuration providing by the Spring Boot. This file place in the classpath (src/main/resources) of the application for Spring Boot to pick the custom configuration.
Spring Boot can control the logging level
Just set it in application.properties
Works with most logging frameworks
Java Util Logging, Logback, Log4J, Log4J2
logging.level.org.springframework=DEBUG
logging.level.com.acme.your.code=INFO