Servlet 3.x - Using MultipartConfig for file uploads

In an earlier post, I had written on performing file upload and download using Spring MVC. In that example I used commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar. This is because Servlets did not have built in support for File upload operation. However Servlets 3.x provides support - as a part of the specs. So no need to include any additional jars. I decided to try an example of the same.

Servlet 3.x - HandlesTypes annotation

I came across the @HandlesTypes annotation while looking at Servlet 3.1 specs, and of course with lot of time to spare, I ended up trying it out.

Servlet 3.x - Building the web.xml less Web Application

Ever since Java introduced  annotations, every framework has been looking to provide an XML alternative to their configuration information. So how could servlets be left behind.

try with resource - dealing with failures

In the previous post we saw the try-with-resource statements and how the execution flows. Here I decided to look at the java.sql.Connection class which also implements the AutoCloseable interface.

Java Streams

We have been exploring Lambda expressions and Functional Interfaces in the past few posts. Now is the time to move to a related new  feature called Streams.