Bits and Kites

Spring is a very powerful Java framework to build strong backends. And with Spring Boot it puts back the fun. But there is a big weakness regarding frontend technologies, as it is not designed for that. In this domain young techniques like Node.js and NPM support the newest and hottest stuff. This post shows a way how to combine Spring Boot and Node.js in one project and get use of...

One of the youngest children in the Spring stack is Spring Cloud which bundles tools to organize and manage distributed systems. There exist components being self developed by the Spring team like Spring Cloud Config which offer a centralized configuration server. On the other hand...

Developing the Surpreso frontend in Rails I really liked to write my views with the HAML template engine. Investing more time with Spring Boot I searched for a Java pendant and got aware of Scalate, the scala template engine. At this time Scalate supports 4 template formats: Mustache SSP Scaml...

Time for a new Spring tutorial - this time we will implement a very simple but powerful data access to MongoDB. Therefore we will use the Spring Data Project which does the most work for us. As always you can find the complete source code online on GitHub. In my last post I showed...

In my first post I introduced a simple skeleton for bootstraping a Spring application. With the new release of the Spring Boot project this one gets obsolete and starting a Spring application gets much easier. As before, the complete source code is available on GitHub. To use the...

This is the start of a tutorial session about the Spring framework. In the next episodes I try to introduce lessons learnd at our project Surpreso which works on Spring and Ruby on Rails. While most of the tutorials work on XML-configuration, this lesson focusses on configuration by annotated classes. Complete sourcecode is avaiable on GitHub. We will start by configurate the maven...