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Do you want to know what is the best investment you can make with your time and money? Knowledge As a software developer you should be constantly acquiring new skills. This is the best way to advance your career and enjoy the rewards (monetary, emotional etc.). Towards that direction you should be reading books, devouring technical articles and staying informed ...

1. Introduction In this tutorial, we will check out how we can use Spring Security with OAuth to secure REST Service. In the demo application, the secured REST resources on the server are accessible with the path pattern (/api/**), such that the request URLs based on this path are mapped to different controller methods. This means that – Any REST ...

No, there is not a missing whitespace in the title. It’s not about any secure login, it’s about the SecureLogin protocol developed by Egor Homakov, a security consultant, who became famous for committing to master in the Rails project without having permissions. The SecureLogin protocol is very interesting, as it does not rely on any central party (e.g. OAuth providers ...

A User-Friendly Introduction The Java Documentation of String formatting is not the easiest to read and understand if you are not familiar with String formatting or just want a quick solution. Although it is complete, it is not very user-friendly, so I thought I would try and write a clearer version. This article is as much for you as it ...

Last week I talked about using SMS to activate your application which is a pretty powerful way to verify a user account. I left a couple of things out though. One of those things is the ability to grab the incoming SMS automatically. This is only possible on Android but it’s pretty cool for the users as it saves on ...

The Difference Between Two Methods? The Java Enum has two methods that retrieve that value of an enum constant, name() and .toString(). The toString() method calls the name() method which returns the string representation of the enum constant. In listing 1, the value returned by calling the name() and toString() on an Animal.DOG constant method is DOG. Listing 1: Animal Enum public ...

Reactor Core implements the Reactive Streams specification and deals with handling a (potentially unlimited) stream of data. If it interests you, do check out the excellent documentation it offers. Here I am assuming some basic familiarity with the Reactor Core libraries Flux and Mono types and will cover Reactor Core provides an abstraction to time itself to enable testing of functions which depend on ...

Optimising Enterprise Java for Microservice Architecture The Eclipse MicroProfile initiative was launched at JavaOne 2016, the brainchild of server vendors and Java user groups, in order to address the shortcomings in the Enterprise Java microservices space. The pace of Java EE releases slowed to a point where it was unable to meet the challenges of the rapidly advancing microservice trend. ...

This post is a follow up post to a few that I have written recently relating to writing a HATEOAS service and handling exceptions with Spring (Applying HATEOAS to a REST API with Spring Boot and Global exception handling with @ControllerAdvice). Now that we have looked through setting up a service and how to add some error handling via controller ...

Java 9 delayed so many times because of Project Jigsaw, and you may be heard a lot of thing about modules, modularity, and other stuff, so, what it’s all about? What the heck is modularization and what do we mean by modularized platform? Java Platform Module System (JPMS)? Is it going to be a revolution in Java ecosystem? This post is my ...