Possible Solution for Ignored MultiPartFile Locations in Spring Boot 1.4

Published by on September 21, 2016

We’ve been using the sweet BlueImp JQuery File Upload Plugin on NixMash Spring which has been working great with Spring Boot 1.3.x. Here’s a shot of the plugin and configuration details with Spring MVC. Then we discovered that our application.properties multipart.location property was being ignored in Spring Boot 1.4.0 with files being saved to the depths of /tmp/tomcat/something/and/something/ROOT instead of the /tmp directory… Read more →

Testing Json Posting with Spring Boot JacksonTester

Published by on September 19, 2016

We covered posting Json with Spring MVC in our last post. Now we’ll test it in JUnit with the new JacksonTester in Spring Boot Test 1.4.0. There are a number of things JacksonTester can do, but we’re going to use it to simply package our Json object when posting it to a Spring mockMVC controller. If we wanted to perform… Read more →

Posting Json with Spring MVC

Published by on September 19, 2016

We’re improving the Post editing in NixMash Spring v0.4.2 with a “Save and Continue” function, represented by the SAVE button and resulting “Post updated!” Modal. We’re going to talk about how we’re doing that in Json and Spring MVC. The JavaScript We’ll get the JavaScript out of the way first. We’re only updating a few fields so those are the only… Read more →

The Move from Velocity to FreeMarker with Spring Boot

Published by on September 14, 2016

You may recall that we recently upgraded NixMash Spring from Spring Boot 1.3.5 to 1.4.0, which is when we learned that Velocity Templating support was being phased out in favor of FreeMarker. It wasn’t on the schedule or the roadmap, but templating plays an integral part in a number of site functions so we made the move from Velocity to FreeMarker our… Read more →

Using the Spring Dependency Management Gradle Plugin

Published by on September 11, 2016

We recently upgraded NixMash Spring from Spring Boot 1.3.5 to 1.4, so we were up to our eyeballs in dependency issues. It was a good time to go deep with the Spring Dependency Management Gradle Plugin. Here is the plugin’s home on GitHub with an excellent README.md. For Spring Boot 1.3 and higher, ignore the following section on adding the plugin,… Read more →

Securing Solr Server With Jetty

Published by on September 10, 2016

We just covered the configuration changes of moving to Solr 5 from Solr 4 after upgrading NixMash Spring to Spring Boot 1.4. One of the configuration issues we didn’t talk about in that post was securing our Solr Server, now with Jetty instead of Tomcat which we used in the past. Regardless of the Web Server we still want to see this when we… Read more →

Solr Server Configuration Changes With Spring Boot 1.4

Published by on September 10, 2016

We recently upgraded NixMash Spring from Spring Boot 1.3.5 to 1.4. You can enjoy the play-by-play in this NixMash post. Spring Boot 1.3 used Solr 4.x where Spring Boot 1.4.0.RELEASE uses Solr 5.5.2 as a baseline. Time to upgrade Solr! We covered Solr Setup and Configuration in a number of posts like in this one from 2014 titled Solr and Tomcat. With Solr… Read more →

Upgrading from Spring Boot 1.3.5 to 1.4

Published by on September 9, 2016

The objective for NixMash Spring v0.4.0 was to upgrade Spring Boot from Release 1.3.5 to 1.4. When you upgrade the framework upon which your application is built, and especially if your app has a lot of moving parts, you know there’s going to be some pain. But there ARE rewards. This is my story… Deprecation Warnings There are always going to be functions that… Read more →

Deleting Rows in a Hibernate @ManyToMany Child Table

Published by on September 1, 2016

We added Tag Management in NixMash Spring and one of the required tasks was tag deletion. In Hibernate terms, tags are a @ManyToMany Child object of Post, linked in SQL by way of a secondary lookup table. Here’s the @ManytoMany relationship defined on the Post side. And in the Tag Entity. We have a TagRepository where we might be tempted to… Read more →

Five Thymeleaf Format Examples

Published by on September 1, 2016

The objective of Version 0.3.6 of NixMash Spring was to move all Post Management functions to Administration and add a number of editing improvements. Posts are listed in the Dandelion Table below, where Thymeleaf is doing some nifty formatting behind the scenes. We’re going to look at five Thymeleaf format examples: Setting a CSS Class based on a Model property value… Read more →