Building web applications with Spring Boot and Vaadin

Engineering | Stéphane Nicoll | July 14, 2020 | ...

This post is a guest post by community member Marcus Hellberg (@marcushellberg). Marcus is the head of the Community team at Vaadin. He likes helping developers discover and learn modern web technologies by creating online content and speaking with developers at events.

Building web apps can be a daunting task. There are many moving parts: you need to define the structure in HTML and then use CSS to make it look the way you want. For frontend apps, you also need to write the app logic in JavaScript and connect it to your backend over REST. And of course, you also need to implement the…

The Spring team wants to hear from you!

Engineering | Ben Wilcock | July 14, 2020 | ...

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This Week in Spring - July 14th, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | July 14, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! How're things? Good? Good. I just finished (virtually) presenting for the always-lovely London Java Community this morning. We spoke about Kotlin and Spring and things. It was good. Thank you so much for having me LJC! I also kicked off the epic JetBrains Java Day Online event last Friday. That was a ton of fun! Thank you Jetbrains. I finally, finally, put some elbow grease into automating a listing of some my activity and so now whenever I publish a new Spring Tips video, a new A Bootiful Podcast podcast, or commit to a new public appearance, I'll have information here on my…

First milestone of Reactor 2020.0 (Codename Europium)

Engineering | Simon Baslé | July 10, 2020 | ...

Earlier this month, we released a first milestone of Reactor 2020.0. This cycle, codename Europium, follows the Dysprosium one (which included reactor-core 3.3.x and reactor-netty 0.9.x).

It includes reactor-core 3.4.0 and reactor-netty 1.0.0.

In this blog post, we'll cover a few highlights of the reactor-core milestone, and briefly mention what's in store for M2.

For reactor-netty, we'll link to a separate blog post here as soon as it is out.

Note also that there is a new versioning scheme in place, which has been adopted accross the Spring portfolio: see the reference guide and this blog post

This Week in Spring - July 7th, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | July 07, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! What a crazy week it's been! How are you? I hope you're safe, healthy, happy.

I'll be speaking later today (Tuesday) at the Accento Digital conference and at the Jetbrains Java Day online event on the 10th (Friday). Both of these should be accessible from EMEA and APJ timezones. I look forward to seeing you there!

We've got a ton of good stuff to get to this week so let's get to it!

This Week in Spring - June 30th, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | July 01, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a wonderful week it's been and it's only Tuesday! I spoke to folks in Switzerland on Monday, had a few awesome meetings with folks later, then today spoke to folks in Germany in the morning and then folks in APJ (Singapore, mostly) in the evening. And tomorrow, I'm speaking at the JPoint virtual conference about Bootiful Kotlin. I'd love to see you there!

Now then, we've got a ton of things to look at this roundup so let's get to it!

URL Matching with PathPattern in Spring MVC

Engineering | Rossen Stoyanchev | June 30, 2020 | ...

The recent Spring Framework 5.3 M1 release announcement mentions "Spring MVC comes with PathPattern parsing for efficient URL matching". This post expands on that with more context and detail.

Overview

In Spring applications AntPathMatcher is used to identify classpath, file system, remote, and other resources in Spring configuration. It has also been used in Spring MVC to match URL paths. Over time the use of patterns in web applications grew in number and syntax with AntPathMatcher evolving to meet those needs but some pain points remain without a solution:

  1. In web applications, patterns need to be matched many times per request and therefore any gains in performance and efficiency matter. However String pattern matching limits what can be achieved.

  2. Choosing the most specific pattern among several that match a request has proven challenging over the years with no simple ways to make it more predictable without impacting other cases.

  3. Matching a String path to a String pattern makes it difficult to avoid URI encoding issues. For example should the incoming path be decoded first and then matched? That allows for patterns themselves to be declared without encoded characters, but what if the request path contains %2F or %3B which are / and ; respectively? Once decoded those alter the structure of the path making it harder to match reliably. We could leave the request path encoded via UrlPathHelper#urlDecode

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