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Understanding @RestController in Spring Boot
What is it? This annotation is a specialization of @Controller, specifically designed for creating REST endpoints. It combines the @Controller and @ResponseBody annotations, making it easier to create RESTful applications.… Read more
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How to Use @Controller in Spring
What is? This class-level annotation tells Spring that your class is a controller. A controller is an entry point for a web application. This allows you to define a path… Read more
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Understanding the @Configuration Annotation in Spring
The @Configuration annotation indicates to Spring that the class has one or more @Bean methods. When starting the application context, Spring will look to these classes to load the Spring… Read more
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What is @Component and How to Use It in Spring
What is @Component? @Component is a stereotype annotation from the Spring framework that allows you to mark your classes as Spring components. These classes will be managed by Spring and… Read more
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Understanding the @Scope Annotation in Spring: How Bean Scopes Work
What is @Scope This is a class-level annotation that allows the developer to define the scope of a Spring bean. By default, all Spring beans are singletons, but by using… Read more
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How to Use @PropertySource in Your Spring Application
What is the @PropertySource annotation? The @PropertySource annotation is used to tell Spring to load a specific properties file from a location provided in the annotation. It is used in… Read more
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Spring Essentials: How to Use the @Bean Annotation for Custom Services
In our application, we have a lot of objects. These objects are components of our application. When we want Spring to create, manage, and inject these objects, they are considered… Read more
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Spring Framework Essentials: Understanding @ComponentScan
@ComponentScan is an annotation that tells Spring where to find classes annotated as Spring beans. Using this annotation, we can instruct Spring to create beans only for the specified location.… Read more
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How to Use Spring’s @Profile Annotation for Flexible Configurations
The profile annotation in spring allows you to segregate configurations that are available only in specific environments. If you mark a @Component (and its specializations) or any @Configuration or @Bean… Read more
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How to Use the @Import Annotation in Spring Framework
The @Import annotation allows you to specify which configurations your Spring application should load. You can think of this annotation as your Java class’s import statements. In this case, it’s… Read more