Spring Cloud Gateway: Building an API Gateway for Microservices (with Eureka) – Microservices Essentials

Spring Cloud Gateway: Building an API Gateway for Microservices (with Eureka) – Microservices Essentials

In a microservices architecture, each service usually has its own endpoint. Managing all these endpoints manually is tedious and error-prone. That’s where Spring Cloud Gateway steps in as a powerful, scalable, and simple solution for routing requests to various services via a single entry point. In this article, you will:…

Service Registration and Discovery in Spring Boot using Eureka : Microservices essentials

Service Registration and Discovery in Spring Boot using Eureka : Microservices essentials

In a microservices architecture, services must locate each other without hardcoded URLs. Service Discovery solves this by registering each service with a centralized registry. One of the most popular tools for this in the Spring ecosystem is Netflix Eureka. In this tutorial, you will: Let’s build it step-by-step. 📦 Project…

Building REST APIs with Spring MVC [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 3]

Building REST APIs with Spring MVC [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 3]

🎯 Objective In this section, you will learn how to: 🔧 Step 1: Create a Model Class 🔍 Explanation 📦 Step 2: Create a Repository 🔍 Explanation 🧠 Step 3: Create a Service Layer 🔍 Explanation 🌐 Step 4: Create a REST Controller 🔍 Explanation 🚫 Optional: Custom Exception Handling…

Data Validation and Exception Handling [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 4]

Data Validation and Exception Handling [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 4]

🎯 Objective Learn to validate incoming data using annotations and handle exceptions globally for consistent and informative error responses. ✅ Add Validation Dependency (if not already included) In pom.xml: This enables Java Bean Validation using annotations like @NotNull, @Size, etc. 🧾 Update Product Entity with Validation 🔍 Explanation 🔁 Update…

Using DTOs and ModelMapper for Clean Architecture [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 5]

Using DTOs and ModelMapper for Clean Architecture [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 5]

🎯 Objective Separate internal models from external API contracts using DTOs (Data Transfer Objects) and simplify object mapping using ModelMapper. 📦 Step 1: Create a ProductDTO Class 🔍 Explanation 🔧 Step 2: Add ModelMapper Bean 🔍 Explanation 🔁 Step 3: Update Service to Use DTOs 🔍 Explanation 🌐 Step 4:…

Entity Relationships and JPA Associations [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 6]

Entity Relationships and JPA Associations [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 6]

🎯 Objective Understand how to model relationships between entities in a Spring Boot application using JPA annotations, including: 🧱 Example Domain Let’s model a simple domain with the following: 1️⃣ One-to-One: User and Profile 🔍 Notes: 2️⃣ One-to-Many and Many-to-One: User and Orders 🔍 Notes: 3️⃣ Many-to-Many: Order and Product…

Custom Queries with Spring Data JPA [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 7]

Custom Queries with Spring Data JPA [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 7]

Spring Data JPA allows you to define custom queries using method names or the @Query annotation. 🛠️ 1. Derived Query Methods Spring Data JPA can derive queries based on method names: 🔍 Description: 💡 Tip: Use descriptive method names for clarity. 📜 2. Custom Queries with @Query You can write…

Integrating MySQL and Spring Boot [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 8]

Integrating MySQL and Spring Boot [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 8]

To use MySQL with Spring Boot, you’ll configure the database connection, define entities, and use Spring Data JPA repositories. 🧰 1. Add MySQL & JPA Dependencies (Maven) Description: ⚙️ 2. Configure application.properties Description: 🧱 3. Define Entity Example Description: 📦 4. Repository Interface 🧪 5. Load Sample Data (Optional) Use…

Swagger Integration for API Documentation [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 9]

Swagger Integration for API Documentation [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 9]

Swagger helps developers explore and test REST APIs directly from a browser. Spring Boot integrates Swagger through the Springfox or springdoc–openapi libraries. 🧰 1. Add Swagger Dependency (Spring Boot 3+ with springdoc-openapi) Description: ⚙️ 2. Access Swagger UI Once you start your Spring Boot app, navigate to: You’ll see a…

Security with Spring Boot (Basic Auth, JWT, OAuth2) [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 10]

Security with Spring Boot (Basic Auth, JWT, OAuth2) [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 10]

Spring Security provides a robust authentication and authorization framework for securing Spring Boot applications. 1️⃣ Basic Authentication Basic Auth is the simplest way to protect endpoints using HTTP headers. ✅ Dependencies Already included in spring-boot-starter-security: 🔐 Security Configuration (Spring Boot 3+) 🔍 Explanation: 2️⃣ JWT (JSON Web Tokens) JWT is…

Logging and Monitoring in Spring Boot [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 11]

Logging and Monitoring in Spring Boot [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 11]

Monitoring and logging are vital for observing the health and behavior of your Spring Boot application. 📝 1. Logging with Spring Boot (SLF4J + Logback) Spring Boot uses SLF4J with Logback by default. Example: 📌 Explanation: ⚙️ 2. Customize Logging Level in application.properties Explanation: 🔍 3. Actuator for Monitoring Spring…

Testing in Spring Boot (Unit + Integration) [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 12]

Testing in Spring Boot (Unit + Integration) [Java Spring Boot Mastery Series – Part 12]

Testing ensures the reliability and maintainability of your codebase. ✅ 1. Unit Testing with JUnit and Mockito Dependency (Maven) Sample Unit Test (Service Layer) Explanation: 🔄 2. Integration Testing with TestRestTemplate Sample Test Explanation: 🧹 3. Best Practices for Testing ➡️ Next Up: Part 13 – Spring Boot with Docker…