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Spring Boot Custom HealthIndicator

Example of you can implement a custom HealthIndicator for Spring Boot. In particular, the example shows how you can make sure that there is disk space left.

About ExecutorServices

Discussion about how a dynamic ThreadPoolExecutor can be implemented that increase the number of worker threads used before it starts queueing tasks.

Spring @PropertySource

If you are a Spring developer and and you have created a Java based container configuration, you have probably come across the @PropertySource annotation for...

Spring and Autowiring of Generic Types

Spring 4 brings some nice improvements to how autowiring of generic types are handled. Before going into details, let’s look into the current state of affairs.

Improve Your Spring REST API, Part IV

Spring 4 is around the corner. Milestone releases has been available for a while, the first release candidate was released earlier today, and the final relea...

Working Efficiently with Maven Modules

When working with Java you will sooner or later come across Maven and Maven modules. Before you start developing a new module feature, upstream modules need ...

Getting Started with Gradle

Did you know that there is a Java build system that does not use angle brackets? More and more projects are using Gradle as an integrated part of their devel...