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Self-signed certificates are usually used for TLS authentication on non-production environments. We’ll discuss here how to generate proper certificate for your server.

How did you know that your site is down? From your customers? Then it’s time to start using some external monitoring tool.

One of the challenges for start-ups or any new project is to reduce the amount of work while still delivering a full-featured product. Agile methodologies address this challenge on the project management level. Let’s discuss another approach to address it on the architecture level: UI-first development.

I hope you will find following tips useful when developing Spring Boot application with Freemarker.

StackOverflow-driven JS development:

try {
    something
} catch (e) {
     window.open('https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[js]+"' + e.message + '"');
}

Making your web application flawless against security attacks is a challenge for every java developer. In this article I will briefly describe common practical development techniques that can help you to achieve it.

I’ve been meaning to write a small tutorial for building web applications. Now it’s time! Let’s define the steps and choose some solutions for developing back-end java web application.

I will give my design recommendations and list a technologies I would use. You may have your own opinion, and you may share it in comment. Over time, this post may change since my favourites are also changing over time.

Spring Boot is an excellent tool to bootstrap java application. Most of the references mention how to create a standalone java application, optionally with embedded web server (tomcat or jetty). But Spring Boot supports also creating web applications intended to run within servlet container.

When developing java web application it is often annoying to manage third-party javascript libraries. Especially, when it is necessary to upgrade some of them.

The project “WebJars” makes a life easier for such lazyefficient developers, like me :-)

There is a wide range of popular javascript libraries packaged int Jar archives and ready to be included as a dependencies into your project. It is described in the documentation how to configure resource mapping in a web framework of your choice.