Spring Boot best practices summary

This document is an extension of the Software engineering best practices summary, dedicated to Spring Boot-specific issues.

General

• Disable Open-Session-In-View
  
  • Read more:
    Spring Boot Best Practice – Disable OSIV to start receiving LazyInitializationException errors again

Object creation

• Don’t use Field Injection, pass all dependencies in the class constructor
  
  • Read more:
    Why field injection is evil – http://olivergierke.de
    
• Do not add the @Autowired annotation on constructors – it is now obsolete