This guide shows how to eliminate manual POJO coding in Spring Boot 3 by using jsonschema2pojo to generate Java classes directly from JSON Schema or raw JSON, covering Maven dependencies, configuration, code examples, and plugin setup.
This guide explains Maven's core plugin architecture, demonstrates practical configurations for flatten‑maven‑plugin and exec‑maven‑plugin, details the MOJO concept behind plugins, and walks through creating, installing, and binding a custom Maven plugin to the build lifecycle.
This article explains that Maven is essentially a plugin framework, details how plugins like flatten-maven-plugin and exec-maven-plugin are configured and executed, introduces the MOJO concept, walks through creating a custom Maven plugin, and shows how to bind plugin goals to the build lifecycle.
This article introduces the Smart-Doc tool for Spring Boot, explains why API documentation is essential, compares common documentation solutions, and provides step‑by‑step instructions—including Maven plugin configuration, JSON settings, command‑line generation of HTML, Markdown, Word, Postman and OpenAPI formats, as well as package exclusion and additional options.
Explore three Spring AOP implementation methods—dynamic proxy, Java Agent, and AspectJ Maven plugin—by setting up a sample Service, defining aspects, configuring aop.xml and JVM arguments, and comparing their flexibility, performance impact, and compile‑time weaving within a Spring Boot 2.7 environment.
This guide explains how to protect Spring Boot production packages from decompilation by using the ClassFinal Maven plugin for code encryption, configuring machine‑bound startup, and comparing it with ProGuard obfuscation, including detailed plugin setup, launch commands, and observed decompilation results.
This tutorial walks through setting up Liquibase in a Spring Boot project, creating a Maven plugin to generate XML/YAML changelogs, configuring the application, and performing common database operations such as creating tables, adding columns, creating indexes, initializing data, while also addressing a common includeAll path issue.
This article provides a step‑by‑step tutorial on integrating Liquibase into a Spring Boot project, covering the creation of a Maven plugin to generate XML/YAML changelogs, configuring the application, writing changeSets for tables, columns, indexes and data, generating documentation, and troubleshooting classpath scanning issues.
This article explains how the spring-boot-maven-plugin creates a self‑contained executable JAR, describes its internal structure, the manifest configuration, and details the function of Spring Boot Loader classes such as JarLauncher and LaunchedURLClassLoader in launching the application.
This article explains how the spring-boot-maven-plugin creates an executable JAR, details the internal JAR structure, the role of the JarLauncher and Spring Boot Loader classes, and shows how the custom class loader loads classes at runtime.
This article explains how Spring Boot's spring-boot-maven-plugin creates an executable JAR, describes the internal JAR structure, the function of the JarLauncher class, and details the custom class loader mechanisms that enable Spring Boot applications to run directly with java -jar.
Screw is an open‑source, lightweight Java plugin that automatically generates database design documentation in HTML, Word, or Markdown for a wide range of databases, offering customizable templates, extensible modules, and Maven integration to streamline documentation maintenance and reduce manual effort.
This article explains how Spring Boot uses the Maven plugin to create an executable fat JAR, details the internal archive layout, the repackage process, the custom class loader and URL handling, and compares JarLauncher with WarLauncher for both JAR and WAR deployments.
This article introduces the Screw plugin, a lightweight tool that automates database table structure documentation across multiple databases, supports various output formats, and can be configured via custom Java code or a Maven plugin to streamline enterprise development workflows.
This article explains how Spring Boot’s spring-boot-maven-plugin packages an application into an executable JAR, details the internal jar layout, the role of the MANIFEST.MF and JarLauncher, and walks through the custom class‑loading mechanism that launches the Spring application.
This article explains how Spring Boot's spring-boot-maven-plugin creates an executable JAR, details its internal structure, the role of JarLauncher and the Spring Boot Loader, and shows how the custom LaunchedURLClassLoader loads classes from embedded dependencies.
This guide shows how to integrate the MyBatis Generator Maven plugin into a Spring Boot project, configure generatorConfig.xml, run the plugin to auto‑create entity, mapper, and XML files from database tables, and use the generated code in a service layer.
