Java
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What are procedures and functions after all?
Many RDBMS support the concept of “routines”, usually calling them procedures and/or functions. These concepts have been around in programming…
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The new Java Caching Standard (javax.cache)
This post explores the new Java caching standard: javax.cache. How it Fits into the Java Ecosystem This standard is being…
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Java Secret: Loading and unloading static fields
OVERVIEW To start with it is natural to assume that static fields have a special life cycle and live for…
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Testing GWT Apps with Selenium or WebDriver
Good functional testing is one of the most difficult tasks for web application developers and their teams. It is a…
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Spring 3 Testing with JUnit 4 – ContextConfiguration and AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
Looking in the internet for a way to test my Spring 3 application, I found many articles that describe how…
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Code coverage with unit & integration tests
On a pet project recently I set out to build automated UI (integration) tests as well as the normal unit…
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Avoid Lazy JPA Collections
Hibernate (and actually JPA) has collection mappings: @OneToMany, @ManyToMany, @ElementCollection. All of these are by default lazy. This means the…
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Play! Framework: Why Did I Fall in Love with it
Some time ago, I was the tech lead for a few very large deployments on the Real Estate market for…
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Java EE6 CDI, Named Components and Qualifiers
One of the biggest promises java EE6 made, was to ease the use of dependency injection. They did, using CDI.…
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