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Introduction In-place editing is a trending feature that can be seen in many latest web applications, a popular example would be trello.com where the editing data happens on the web page without any explicit forms or popups. Another such example I could point out is, thoughtplan.com. The in-place editing is very nice in such a way that editing data seems so natural and user friendly. To enable in-place editing, there are many free JQuery plugins available on the internet. We are discussing a very popular plugin called x-editable . Most of the time we use html tables to display data where in-place editing is enabled. Hence we need another plugin to elegantly display tables with enormous data. We use a famous JQuery plugin called datatable . Both of these plugins are used widely and free to use. Assumption      : Bootstrap 3, JQuery used Projects Integration In order to enable datatable features on any ordinary table found on web page, we should initialise datata...

This post talks about how we integrated Flyway with Spring Boot and enjoyed the power of database migration seamlessly. If you have worked on Enterprise applications, data migration is really liability for your project. One wrong move, your data get lost during your production patch fixes or release updates. To mitigate such issues happening over manual migrations or even in-house programmatic data migration, we adopted Flyway, an open-source database migration tool that favors simplicity and convention over configuration. Luckily, Spring Boot naturally gels with Flyway. Flyway                : 4.2.0 Spring Boot      : 1.5.6.RELEASE Assumption      : Java, MySQL & Maven Used Projects Flyway Maven Dependency Flyway has Maven dependency that we need to specify in the pom.xml while we configure spring-boot-starter dependencies. This makes sure Spring Boot look for database migration scripts in the classpath....

Many of you who have worked on Spring Security might be aware of the fact that Spring Security protects applications from Cross Site Request Forgery using _csrf tokens in the request sent to the web server. You can find a detailed understanding in the Spring documentation page . The objective of this post is to explain how to send _csrf tokens in the Ajax requests when we protect our application URL and application access using spring security. How to get CSRF tokens While we submit a form using an application that is protected with Spring Security, the form gets a default hidden parameter in the form body when using <form:form> element. The param contains the _csrf tokens to authenticate the requests in the server. In case we use other ways to create forms, we have to manually include a hidden parameter that contains name as ${_csrf.parameterName} and  value as ${_csrf.token} . For example, <input type= "hidden" name= "${_csrf.parameterName}" ...