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Advanced Spring Boot Concepts Every Java Developer Should know
3 min readJan 1, 2025
Spring Boot is a powerful framework that simplifies the development of Java-based enterprise applications. For experienced developers, diving into advanced concepts is essential for building robust, scalable, and maintainable applications.
Here are advanced Spring Boot concepts every Java developer should know:
1. Customizing Spring Boot Auto-Configuration
- Understand how Spring Boot auto-configuration works.
- Learn to create custom
@Conditional
annotations for fine-grained control over configurations. - Use
META-INF/spring.factories
for adding custom auto-configuration classes.
2. Spring Boot Actuator Customization
- Extend and customize Actuator endpoints.
- Build custom health indicators (
HealthIndicator
) for application-specific health checks. - Secure Actuator endpoints and expose only relevant information using properties or programmatic configuration.
3. Reactive Programming with Spring WebFlux
- Understand the reactive programming paradigm using Project Reactor.
- Build non-blocking…