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Groovy
Short on Time? Switch to Groovy for Unit Testing
If you are a programming today, you have most likely heard of Unit Testing or of the Test-Driven Development process.…
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Software Development
KISS With Essential Complexity
Accidental complexity, in a broader sense, is the complexity that developers add to their code and that is not necessary…
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DevOps
Docker MySQL Persistence
One of the recipes in 9 Docker recipes for Java developers is using MySQL container with WildFly. Docker containers are ephemeral, and…
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Core Java
Interface Evolution With Default Methods – Part II: Interfaces
Default methods were introduced to enable interface evolution. If backwards compatibility is sacrosanct, this is limited to adding new methods…
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Enterprise Java
On Servlets and Async Servlets
The Servlet API, part of the Java EE standard, has long been (since 1998, when the 2.1 specification was officially…
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Software Development
It’s the Little Things: The PL/SQL NULL Statement, and why Every Language Should have One
Syntax is one of those topics. One of those emotional topics that lead to very very very important discussions. I…
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Scala
Scala Snippet: Object, Companion Object and Static Methods
If you are a Java developer moving to Scala, one notable difference in terminology that can cause confusion is the…
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Software Development
Meta-cycles in technology choices
I’ve been working on my keynote for QCon Beijing and looking at technology trends and choices since the 1950s. One…
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Enterprise Java
Farewell to Asynchronous Code
Quasar is a library that adds true lightweight threads (fibers) to the JVM. These are very cheap and very fast…
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