Using PowerMock to Mock Constructors

In my opinion, one of the main benefits of dependency injection is that you can inject mock and/or stub objects…

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Spring 3.1 Caching and @CacheEvict

My last blog demonstrated the application of Spring 3.1’s @Cacheable annotation that’s used to mark methods whose return values will be stored…

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Spring 3.1 Caching and @Cacheable

Caches have been around in the software world for long time. They’re one of those really useful things that once…

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Spring Profiles and Java Configuration

My last blog introduced Spring 3.1’s profiles and explained both the business case for using them and demonstrated their use…

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Spring Profiles in XML Config Files

My last blog was very simple as it covered my painless upgrade from Spring 3.0.x to Spring 3.1.x and I…

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Getting Started with Spring Social – Part 2

A few weeks ago I wrote a post demonstrating what I thought was the simplest application you could write using…

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Approaches to XML – Part 3 – JAXB

If you remember from Part 1 and Part 2, I’m covering different approaches to parsing XML messages using the outrageously corny scenario…

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Approaches to XML – Part 4 – XMLBeans

If you remember from Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, I’m covering different approaches to parsing XML messages using…

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Approaches to XML – Part 2 – What about SAX?

Part 1 introduced the idea that there are different ways to approach XML parsing and highlighted the point that XML…

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