Chapter 3. Customizing configuration

This chapter covers

  • Overriding auto-configured beans
  • Configuring with external properties
  • Customizing error pages

Freedom of choice is an awesome thing. If you’ve ever ordered a pizza (who hasn’t?) then you know that you have full control over what toppings are placed on the pie. If you ask for sausage, pepperoni, green peppers, and extra cheese, then you’re essentially configuring the pizza to your precise specifications.

On the other hand, most pizza places also offer a form of auto-configuration. You can ask for the meat-lover’s pizza, the vegetarian pizza, the spicy Italian pizza, or the ultimate example of pizza auto-configuration, the supreme pizza. When ordering one of these pizzas, you don’t ...

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