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Software Development
Frankensystems, Half-Strangled Zombies and other Monsters
There are lots of ugly things that can happen to a system over time. This is what the arguments over…
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Enterprise Java
Testing REST with multiple MIME types
1. Overview This article will focus on testing a RESTful Service with multiple Media Types/representations. This is the tenth of…
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Software Development
What If We … Like We Hire Programmers – What Questions Are Appropriate?
Programmers often experience a high degree of frustration during the interview process, and one primary source of annoyance is how…
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Enterprise Java
Spring Property Placeholder Configurer – A few not so obvious options
Spring’s PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer is used for externalizing properties from the Spring bean definitions defined in XML or using Java Config. There…
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Enterprise Java
Hamcrest Containing Matchers
The Hamcrest 1.3 Javadoc documentation for the Matchers class adds more documentation for several of that class’s methods than were…
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Software Development
Quick Summary : Object Associations
Composition final class Company{ private final Employee…
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Core Java
Java Thread Pool Example using Executors and ThreadPoolExecutor
A thread pool manages the pool of worker threads, it contains a queue that keeps tasks waiting to get executed.…
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Enterprise Java
ETags for REST with Spring
1. Overview This article will focus on ETags – the Spring support, integration testing of the RESTful API, and consumption…
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Core Java
IntelliJ IDEA: Generate equals, hashCode and toString with Google Guava
THE PROBLEM In the world of Java, we’re quite often in the need of writing equals, hashCode and toString methods.…
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