List of Figures

Chapter 1. Bootstarting Spring

Figure 1.1. Spring Initializr is a web application that generates empty Spring projects as starting points for development.

Figure 1.2. Initializr-created projects provide a minimal foundation on which to build Spring Boot applications.

Figure 1.3. Spring Tool Suite integrates with Spring Initializr to create and directly import Spring Boot projects into the IDE.

Figure 1.4. The second page of the Spring Starter Project dialog box offers you a chance to specify where the project is created.

Figure 1.5. The first screen in IntelliJ IDEA’s Spring Boot initialization wizard

Figure 1.6. Specifying project information in IntelliJ IDEA’s Spring Boot initialization wizard

Figure 1.7. Selecting project dependencies in IntelliJ IDEA’s Spring Boot initialization wizard

Figure 1.8. The final screen in IntelliJ IDEA’s Spring Boot initialization wizard

Chapter 2. Developing your first Spring Boot application

Figure 2.1. Initializing the reading list app via Initializr’s web interface

Figure 2.2. The structure of the initialized reading-list project

Figure 2.3. Running a Spring Boot application from Spring Tool Suite

Figure 2.4. An initially empty reading list

Figure 2.5. The reading list after a few books have been added

Chapter 3. Customizing configuration

Figure 3.1. Spring Boot’s default whitelabel error page.

Figure 3.2. A custom error page exhibits style in the face of failure

Chapter 6. Applying Grails in Spring Boot

Figure 6.1. The reading list rendered from a GSP template

Figure 6.2. The directory structure of a Grails 3 project

Figure 6.3. Running a freshly created Grails application

Figure 6.4. The reading-list application with the common Grails styling

Chapter 7. Taking a peek inside with the Actuator

Figure 7.1. Output of autoconfig command

Figure 7.2. Output of beans command

Figure 7.3. The metrics dashboard

Figure 7.4. Getting a list of endpoints

Figure 7.5. Invoking the health endpoint

Figure 7.6. Request mapping endpoint as viewed in JConsole

Figure 7.7. Shutdown button invokes the endpoint.

Figure 7.8. Application immediately shuts down.

Chapter 8. Deploying Spring Boot applications

Figure 8.1. Flyway scripts are named with their version number.

Appendix A. Spring Boot Developer Tools

Figure A.1. RemoteSpringApplication is the remote developer tools client.

Figure A.2. RemoteSpringApplication takes the remote app’s URL as an argument.