How to create executable jar using Gradle or Maven in Spring Boot Application

Introduction In this tutorial I will tell you how to create executable jar using gradle or maven build tool in Spring Boot application. Generally maven or gradle tool is used in Java applications to automate the build process. I will also see how to control the target jar name with version appended into it. Spring Boot provides lots of benefits…

Create Microservices using Spring Boot and build using Gradle

Introduction Here we will see how to create Microservices using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud and build using Gradle tool. What are Microservices? Before I tell you about the microservices, I would like to tell you about monolithic architectural style, which is built as a single, autonomous unit. So let’s say an web application with client-server model, where the server-side…

Integrate H2 In-memory Database with Spring Boot

Spring Boot and H2 Database This tutorial will show you how to integrate in-memory H2 database with Spring Boot and build using Gradle/Maven tools. You will see here simple Spring Boot Data JPA example with Spring REST API to understand how it works. H2 is in-memory database, so it does not have persistence capability once your Spring Boot application is…

Utility classes should not have a public or default constructor – Spring Boot

Introduction The error, utility classes should not have a public or default constructor, you notice mainly in utility classes where you have declared your class method(s) as public static and your class does not have private constructor as well as your class cannot be made as final. This error occurs due to the checkstyle rules defined generally in checkstyle.xml that is…

How to use checkstyle plugin in gradle based project

Introduction I will show here how to use checkstyle plugin in gradle based Java project. Checkstyle is a static code quality tool used to find Fan-out complexity of a class, complexity of method, utility class, bugs due to not following the coding standards. So you can remove the complexity from your Java source code and make the code more readable…

Building Mule Apps with Gradle in Eclipse

Building Mule Apps with Gradle in Eclipse, i.e., you are going to create Mule project outside Mule Studio. We will build the Mule project in Eclipse using Gradle script. Gradle is becoming more and more popularity as a build system. It combines the power of scripting with the simplicity of conventions, where customization does not end up in tons of…

Integrate npm web app in Spring Boot with Gradle

Integrate npm web app in spring boot with gradle is basically a multi-module project as we have seen in our earlier tutorials here with maven build in spring boot and here with maven in Eclipse. But the example on integrate npm web app in spring boot with gradle uses gradle to build the project. Here we basically create two modules…

Creating Kotlin Project in Eclipse

In this tutorial I will show you how to create Kotlin project in Eclipse. This example shows you how to create Kotlin gradle project or Kotlin maven project. Kotlin is statically typed programming language for modern multiplatform applications. Kotlin has 100% compatibility with Java or vice-versa. Salient Features of Kotlin Drastically reduces the amount of boilerplate code. Avoids entire classes…

Generating stubs from multiple WSDL files using Maven or Gradle

Introduction In this post we will see an example on generating stubs from multiple QSDL files using Maven or Gradle plugin. Let’s say, you are given a WSDL file and you want to generate Java class from it, then you need to do some configurations in your maven or gradle project to automate the activities. You can also generate using…

Generating jaxb classes from xsd using Gradle

This tutorial will show you how to generate Java classes from XSD file using JAXB API and Gradle. Generating JAXB classes from xsd using Gradle is not an easy task because Gradle does not have yet any ready-made plugin like Maven. So to generate Java classes from XSD schema using Gradle you have to write an an Ant Task. The below…