@SpringBean, @SpringSpy, and @UnwrapAopProxy are new annotations in Spock 1.2 that make it easier to inject mocks into the Spring context when doing Integration testing. These can greatly simplify your code from using a @TestConfiguration .. READ MORE
GWT – Google Web Toolkit may not be as heavily used as it once was 5-10 years ago, though many enterprise teams and legacy projects are still using the technology. While we can easily use .. READ MORE
MariaDB4j is an embedded Java wrapper for spinning up a MariaDB instance for local development or continuous integration testing purposes. Using an embedded (or in-memory) database is extremely beneficial when developing a Java application. Traditional .. READ MORE
Over the last few years I’ve had a little online side-project that I’ve always wanted to make into a native app. Mostly for fun and learning, but also to make it available without a network .. READ MORE
This past weekend, I was able to attend and present at the 2015 Nebraska.Code() Conference in Lincoln, along with a few other Object Partners developers. With roughly 500 in attendance from presenters, to attendees, to sponsors, .. READ MORE
To enable logging for REST errors in Spring when using a ResponseEntityExceptionHandler just enable debug on ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver Without setting debug to true, your errors will still be handled perfectly but you will not receive any .. READ MORE
Apache Commons Pool is a great tool to easily configure an object pool on the JVM. Having a pool of created objects helps when you need to reuse connection objects that are expensive to create .. READ MORE
Using Groovy almost makes calling Stored Procedures an enjoyable process. More like a less painful adventure. But since many large enterprises have thousands of stored procedures lying around, at least we can make calling them .. READ MORE
Grails GORM has solid support for using multiple datasources in both 1.3.x with the Datasources plugin, and 2.x with built-in multi-datasource support. This feature allows you to partition your Domain classes and Services to attach .. READ MORE
Aligning the stars to configure Quartz 2.1.7 to work with Spring 3.1.3 in a cluster was surprisingly complicated. The main idea is to run jobs to fire only once per cluster, not once per server, .. READ MORE