Spring Boot with a Custom Parent

1. Overview Spring Boot provides the parent POM for the easier creation of Spring Boot applications. Not everyone likes inheriting from the spring-boot-starter-parent POM to create an executable jar/war. You may have your own…

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Introduction to the SpringBootServletInitializer

1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll go through a quick introduction to the SpringBootServletInitializer. This is an extension of WebApplicationInitializer which runs a SpringApplication from a traditional WAR archive deployed on a web container. This class binds Servlet, Filter and ServletContextInitializer beans…

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