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Ceylon
Null and Java interop
The way Ceylon handles null is one of the big attractions of the language. Ceylon features a typed null value.…
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Ceylon
About modules
Modules, ah, modules. The albatross of Java. I frequently joke that modules are scheduled for Java N+1 where N moves…
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Enterprise Java
Spring MVC – Easy REST-Based JSON Services with @ResponseBody
Spring 3 makes JSON REST services really easy. This tutorial will show you how in just a few steps. You…
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Enterprise Java
MOXy’s Object Graphs & Dynamic JAXB
JAXB (JSR-222) makes it easy for you to convert instances of your domain classes to/from XML. The EclipseLink MOXy implementation…
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Enterprise Java
Introducing EclipseLink JPA-RS
In a previous series of posts I covered how to create a JAX-RS service that leveraged JPA for the persistence…
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Enterprise Java
Java EE CDI ConversationScoped example
In this tutorial we shall show you how to create and use a ConversationScoped Bean in a web application. In…
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DevOps
Capistrano: Deploying to a Vagrant VM
I’ve been working on a tutorial around thinking through problems in graphs using my football graph and I wanted to…
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Core Java
On Java 8’s introduction of Optional
I had recently discovered the JDK 8′s addition of the Optional type. The Optional type is a way to avoid…
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Enterprise Java
Spring JpaRepository Example (In-Memory)
This post describes a simple Spring JpaRepository example using an in memory HSQL database. The code example is available from…
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