Spring Boot is the modern framework to develop Java/JVM applications using an opinionated view of the Spring platform and many third-party libraries.
Actuator is a software module you can add to any Spring Boot project to expose many features for monitoring and managing the application. This article describes how to use and configure one of the essential features of Actuator, the “info” endpoint.
If you have been using Spring Boot for a while, sometimes you may have encountered a failure when launching an application. One common and frequent case is when the application is already running, and you try to re-run the application (or another application that uses the same server port). In this case, Spring Boot logs…
Spring Boot directly supports three well-known JSON binding libraries: Jackson, Gson, and JSON-B (note that the latter is, more precisely, a specification). JSON binding is typically used in REST web services, but you can use it in several other contexts. In this article, I will explain how to integrate these libraries in Spring Boot (mainly…