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Software Development
Writing end to end test for a microservices architecture
One of the main aspects of microservices architecture is that the application is formed as a collection of loosely coupled…
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Enterprise Java
DataSource Routing with Spring @Transactional
I was inspired by Carl Papa’s use of aspects with the Spring Framework to determine the DataSource to use (either…
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Enterprise Java
Power Up Your Data Model With Projections
Introduction Data models can be tricky. Modelling can be even harder. Sometimes information that should go into a database table…
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Core Java
20 Years Of Java
Twenty years ago in a Zurich apartment two momentous things happened. My daughter took her first steps and a young…
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Core Java
Java 9 at a glance
To many Java 9 may seem to be a maintenance release that pushes forward project Jigsaw that couldn’t make it…
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Scala
Run code on startup with Play and Scala
Depending on various projects, sometimes there is the need to execute some actions on initialization just before our application starts…
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Enterprise Java
Integration tests with Maven
Implementing unit tests with maven is something ordinary and most of us are familiar with the project structure and where…
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Enterprise Java
Transactional exception handling in CDI
In Java EE, exceptions that are raised during the execution of a transactional business method cause the transaction to rollback.…
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Core Java
Write custom AssertJ assertions
AssertJ is an alternative matching library to the widely used Hamcrest matchers. For my own projects I in fact have…
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