Developing Web applications

How to reload my Spring Boot changes without restarting the server?

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During development, you often need to change the code often and restart the server for those code changes to take effect. Spring Boot provides developer tools (the spring-boot-devtools module) that include support for quick application restarts whenever the application classpath content changes.When you include the spring-boot-devtools module during development, the caching of the view templates … Read more

How to upload files in Spring Boot web applications

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HTML pages can configure files to be uploaded using as enctype attribute “multipart/form-data“. Out of the box, the org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.servlet.MultipartAutoConfiguration already has support to enable multi-part upload. So let’s see an example HTML page with a form with enctype=”multipart/form-data” to upload a file: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <form action=”uploadFile” th:action=”@{/uploadFile}” method=”post” enctype=”multipart/form-data”> <input type=”file” name=”myFile”/> <input type=”submit”/> </form> … Read more

How to change Context path in a Spring Boot application

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Out of the box, Spring boot applications are accessed through the default context path “/” i.e. you can access the application directly at http://localhost:PORT/. In this tutorial we will learn how to change the default root Web context of a Spring Boot application. As you will see, Spring boot is quite flexible and provide you multiple options to configure applications context root path.

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