Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

About this Book

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Bootstarting Spring

1.1. Spring rebooted

1.1.1. Taking a fresh look at Spring

1.1.2. Examining Spring Boot essentials

1.1.3. What Spring Boot isn’t

1.2. Getting started with Spring Boot

1.2.1. Installing the Spring Boot CLI

1.2.2. Initializing a Spring Boot project with Spring Initializr

1.3. Summary

Chapter 2. Developing your first Spring Boot application

2.1. Putting Spring Boot to work

2.1.1. Examining a newly initialized Spring Boot project

2.1.2. Dissecting a Spring Boot project build

2.2. Using starter dependencies

2.2.1. Specifying facet-based dependencies

2.2.2. Overriding starter transitive dependencies

2.3. Using automatic configuration

2.3.1. Focusing on application functionality

2.3.2. Running the application

2.3.3. What just happened?

2.4. Summary

Chapter 3. Customizing configuration

3.1. Overriding Spring Boot auto-configuration

3.1.1. Securing the application

3.1.2. Creating a custom security configuration

3.1.3. Taking another peek under the covers of auto-configuration

3.2. Externalizing configuration with properties

3.2.1. Fine-tuning auto-configuration

3.2.2. Externally configuring application beans

3.2.3. Configuring with profiles

3.3. Customizing application error pages

3.4. Summary

Chapter 4. Testing with Spring Boot

4.1. Integration testing auto-configuration

4.2. Testing web applications

4.2.1. Mocking Spring MVC

4.2.2. Testing web security

4.3. Testing a running application

4.3.1. Starting the server on a random port

4.3.2. Testing HTML pages with Selenium

4.4. Summary

Chapter 5. Getting Groovy with the Spring Boot CLI

5.1. Developing a Spring Boot CLI application

5.1.1. Setting up the CLI project

5.1.2. Eliminating code noise with Groovy

5.1.3. What just happened?

5.2. Grabbing dependencies

5.2.1. Overriding default dependency versions

5.2.2. Adding dependency repositories

5.3. Running tests with the CLI

5.4. Creating a deployable artifact

5.5. Summary

Chapter 6. Applying Grails in Spring Boot

6.1. Using GORM for data persistence

6.2. Defining views with Groovy Server Pages

6.3. Mixing Spring Boot with Grails 3

6.3.1. Creating a new Grails project

6.3.2. Defining the domain

6.3.3. Writing a Grails controller

6.3.4. Creating the view

6.4. Summary

Chapter 7. Taking a peek inside with the Actuator

7.1. Exploring the Actuator’s endpoints

7.1.1. Viewing configuration details

7.1.2. Tapping runtime metrics

7.1.3. Shutting down the application

7.1.4. Fetching application information

7.2. Connecting to the Actuator remote shell

7.2.1. Viewing the autoconfig report

7.2.2. Listing application beans

7.2.3. Watching application metrics

7.2.4. Invoking Actuator endpoints

7.3. Monitoring your application with JMX

7.4. Customizing the Actuator

7.4.1. Changing endpoint IDs

7.4.2. Enabling and disabling endpoints

7.4.3. Adding custom metrics and gauges

7.4.4. Creating a custom trace repository

7.4.5. Plugging in custom health indicators

7.5. Securing Actuator endpoints

7.6. Summary

Chapter 8. Deploying Spring Boot applications

8.1. Weighing deployment options

8.2. Deploying to an application server

8.2.1. Building a WAR file

8.2.2. Creating a production profile

8.2.3. Enabling database migration

8.3. Pushing to the cloud

8.3.1. Deploying to Cloud Foundry

8.3.2. Deploying to Heroku

8.4. Summary

Appendix A. Spring Boot Developer Tools

Automatic restart

LiveReload

Remote development

Development property defaults

Globally configuring developer tools

Appendix B. Spring Boot starters

Appendix C. Configuration properties

Appendix D. Spring Boot dependencies

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings