Web App Architecture – the Spring MVC – AngularJs stack

Spring MVC and AngularJs together make for a really productive and appealing frontend development stack for building form-intensive web applications.In…

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Jar Hell made Easy – Demystifying the classpath with jHades

Some of the hardest problems a Java Developer will ever have to face are classpath errors: ClassNotFoundException, NoClassDefFoundError, Jar Hell,…

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Solving ORM – Keep the O, Drop the R, no need for the M

ORM has a simple, production-ready solution hiding in plain sight in the Java world. Let’s go through it in this…

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How JSF Works and how to Debug it – is polyglot an alternative?

JSF is not what we often think it is. It’s also a framework that can be somewhat tricky to debug,…

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The Java Origins of Angular JS: Angular vs JSF vs GWT

A superheroic Javascript framework needs a good origin story. Let’s try to patch it together, while going over the use…

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Javascript for Java Developers

This post will go over the Javascript language from the point of view of a Java developer, focusing on the…

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Hibernate Debugging – Finding the origin of a Query

It’s not always immediate why and in which part of the program is Hibernate generating a given SQL query, especially…

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Pitfalls of the Hibernate Second-Level / Query Caches

This post will go through how to setup the Hibernate Second-Level and Query caches, how they work and what are…

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Open Session In View Design Tradeoffs

The Open Session in View (OSIV) pattern gives rise to different opinions in the Java development community. Let’s go over…

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