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Desktop Java
Writing a Tile Engine in JavaFX
With the advent of embedded versions of JavaFX, our framework has become more interesting for game development, since we now…
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Enterprise Java
Lightweight Web Application Framework: PrimeFaces (JSF) + Guice + MyBatis (Part 2)
In this part, I will continue to demonstrate the integration of JSF, Guice and MyBatis. DBCP connection pool and MYSQL…
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Enterprise Java
Lightweight Web Application: PrimeFaces (JSF) + Guice + MyBatis (Part 1)
Recently, my friend asks me how to build a lightweight java web application. Many Java web developer would choose Spring…
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Groovy
A Grails plugin to bridge Spring Security and Shiro
I started using Spring Security in 2007 when I was tasked with adding security to a Spring/Hibernate application at the…
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Enterprise Java
Camel 2.11 – Camel web applications without Spring
As I write this we have just added a new component to the upcoming Apache Camel 2.11, that allow to…
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Software Development
TDD Vs. math formalism: friend or foe?
It is not uncommon to oppose the empirical process of TDD, together with its heavy use of unit tests, to…
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Core Java
Selecting your Collections library
Is this really something you should bother? Is there something fundamentally wrong with java.util.ArrayList and java.util.HashMap? For most of the…
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Core Java
Should Java be more high level or low level?
Overview Java 8 is bringing much antisipated features such as Lambda expressions, Type Annotations and Virtual Extensions. While this functionality…
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Enterprise Java
Spring Selenium Tests With Annotations
This post describes how to implement Selenium tests in Java. It is inspired from the post by Alex Collins, with…
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