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OAuth 2.0 Webapp Flow Overview
In my last few blogs I’ve been talking about accessing Software as a Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter using Spring Social. Some of you may have noticed that ...
Getting Started with Spring Social
Like me, you will not have failed to notice the current rush to ‘socialize’ applications, whether it’s adding a simple Facebook ‘Like’ button, a whole bunch of ‘share’ ...
A Birds’s Eye View of Maven
One of the things that we do on a daily basis is use Maven to build our projects by issuing build commands such as mvn install. Maven then looks at our project’s configuration file, ...
Implementing the State Machine Pattern as a Stream Processor
In my last blog, I said that I really thought that some of the Gang Of Four (GOF) patterns were becoming somewhat obsolete, and if not obsolete then certainly unpopular. In particular ...
The Strategy Pattern
In a recent blog on I received a comment from Wojciech Soczy?ski about how the “strategy” pattern can be used to enforce the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) when using Tell ...
Integrating Spring Into Legacy Applications
One of the things that all Spring developers like to do is to shoehorn Spring into any application they work on – it’s one of my guilty pleasures in life: you see some code, ...
Disassembling Tell Don’t Ask
In my last blog I defined Tell Don’t Ask (TDA) using a simple shopping cart example. In it the shopping cart was responsible for working out the total cost of the items in the cart ...
Isn’t Java a Civilised Language?
A few weeks ago I was given the opportunity to learn iOS programming. My boss decided that I was more of a ‘computer scientist’ rather than a developer, and this meant that I could ...
Is Java’s String Class a God Object?
In October I wrote a blog entitled Top Trumps in God Objects where I talked about the discovery of an object I’d found with 167 disparate methods that linked this object with all ...
Spring 3 MVC Exception Handlers
The majority of the Spring 3 error handling sample code that I’ve come across only ever seems to give the simplest overview of its usage, yet how we handle errors is, some would say, ...
