Development

Sometimes, especially during debugging, it would be helpful to mark single lines in the log in colours. There is a simple way to achieve this with Spring Boot and logback. With this dependency in place you can extend your logger to achieve this. Here a sample setup: This allows you to mark a resource in

Spring Boot contains a quite nice configuration for logback with color coding and good readability. But it lacks logging MDC (Mapped Diagnostic Context) content. I tried around and found a way to append MDC to every logged line by setting the console pattern in my application.properties/yml under logging.pattern.console to Without any MDC set this adds

It’s quite easy to mix up spring-boot-start-cache with 2nd level caching in hibernate. In this post I want to take down how to enable both and being able to run tests from within intellij and gradle (which isn’t the default if you just follow most tutorials). To have proper dependencies for this i added the

In my latest experiments I upgraded a project to Java 15 and received exceptions during the build from jacoco that state that the used Java version isn’t supported. Here the exceptions stacktrace I received: Especially “Unsupported class file major version 59” is a good indicator that Java 15 isn’t supported yet. To get around that