Keycloak is an open-source Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution aimed at modern applications and services. Keycloak provides out-of-the-box authentication and authorization services as well as advanced features like User Federation, Identity Brokering, and Social Login. To Secure SpringBoot app with Keycloak we can use Keycloak SpringBoot adapter JAR as…

Logging is a fundamental part of any application, It benefits not only for developers but also to support teams and business people equally. …

In this article, we’ll have a look at customizing Security Configuration and when to use HTTPSecurity vs WebSecurity configurations. Spring Boot has become the de facto standard for developing production ready Java microservices. …

In this article, we’ll have a look at how to disable Security in Spring Boot application and how to customize Security Configuration. For better understanding, first we need to learn how to enable Auto-Configure of Security in the Spring Boot application Spring Boot Security Auto-Configuration In order to add security to our Spring Boot…

API Testing is recognised as being more suitable for test automation and continuous testing than GUI testing [wiki]and OAuth2/OpenID Connect are fundamental for securing APIs. So there is always need to write test automation for APIs which are secured. Testing of OAuth2/OpenID protected Restful APIs involves getting access token, then…

Robot Framework is language-agnostic open-source test automation framework for test automation and robotic process automation (RPA). It is operating system and application independent. Several standard libraries are bundled with the framework, and there are separately developed external libraries galore that can be installed based on your needs. Libraries provide the actual…

There’s always been discussion about whether we should expose JPA entities in RESTful APIs, or define Data Transfer Objects(DTOs) and map entity classes to the DTOs. We will discuss pros and cons of exposing JPA entities as REST API resources. We will see how to generate REST API DTOs from…

Strategy Design Pattern — Strategy design pattern is a behavioral design pattern that enables selecting an algorithm at run-time. The intent of the Strategy design pattern is to: “Define a family of algorithms, encapsulate each one, and make them interchangeable. Strategy lets the algorithm vary independently from clients that use it.” [GoF] UML class and sequence diagram from wiki There are…

Spring Boot Actuator provides number of features to monitor and manage your applications. Actuator includes a number of built-in endpoints to monitor, gather metrics and controls your application. You can use HTTP endpoints to interact with it. For example, the health endpoint provides basic application health information. In this article…