Spring Boot

Understanding Microservices

Understanding Microservices

tl;dr Understanding how we got here and the problem that it solves will help understand what Microservices is all about. A few months back, I gave a presentation at Leidos Cloud User Group on the topic of “Understanding Microservices”. To my astonishment, we had about 123 folks that attended the presentation. I felt that it’s best that I share this knowledge with the world. I have also created a short (and sweet) implementation of Microservices using JavaScript Cote.

Spring Framework - Application Context - three ways to get to the application context

Spring Framework - Application Context - three ways to get to the application context

This article shows you three different ways how to get to the Spring Framework Application Context in your code. Summary (This is a repost of an older article I wrote in 2010). In searching Google for “Spring ApplicationContextAware”, you will come across a lot of recommendations and I also see a lot of folks continuing to complain saying that their setApplicationContext method does not get invoked. So to help clarify, I’m blogging a few notes in hope that it helps clarify how the context works.