All Posts About Spring Boot

This post describes how to configure Kafka producer and consumer in spring boot application and also explains how to create service classes to send and receive Kafka messages to and from configured kafka topic respectively.

Swagger library is useful if you are creating REST services in spring boot web application. Swagger user interface allows you to view REST services and execute GET, POST, PUT, DELETE HTTP endpoints. This is helpful since you do not need to use Postman or some other tool to test REST Apis.

Follow these steps to configure swagger in your spring boot application:-

Spring boot application comes with default banner which shows up first when you start your application.

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 :: Spring Boot ::        (v2.1.3.RELEASE)

You can replace above banner with your self made custom banner in following two easy steps:-

Spring Boot Application converts any command line arguments starting with --, such as --spring.profiles.active=dev to a property by default and adds them to the Spring Environment. Command line properties always take precedence over other property sources.

If you do not want command line properties to be added to the Environment, you can disable them from SpringBootApplication main method as follows:-

Spring boot web application using embedded server by default runs on port 8080. Following are the ways to change default server port from 8080 to say 9090

Follow any of the given five ways to change server port:-

You would have seen below spring boot banner when starting a spring boot application

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 :: Spring Boot ::        (v2.1.3.RELEASE)

There are multiple ways to disable spring boot banner as follows: