Expressive JAX-RS integration testing with Specs2 and client API 2.0

No doubts, JAX-RS is an outstanding piece of technology. And upcoming specification JAX-RS 2.0 brings even more great features, especially…

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Your logs are your data: logstash + elasticsearch

Topic of today’s post stays a bit aside from day-to-day coding and development but nonetheless covers a very important subject:…

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Going REST: embedding Tomcat with Spring and JAX-RS (Apache CXF)

This post is logical continuation of the previous one. The only difference is the container we are going to use:…

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Implementing Producer/Consumer using SynchronousQueue

Among plenty of useful classes which Java provides for concurrency support, there is one I would like to talk about:…

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Going REST: embedding Jetty with Spring and JAX-RS (Apache CXF)

For hardcore server-side Java developer the only way to ‘speak’ out to the world is by using APIs. Today’s post…

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Packing your Java application as one (or fat) JAR

This post will target an interesting but quite powerful concept: packing your application as single, runnable JAR file, also known…

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Redis pub/sub using Spring

Continuing to discover the powerful set of Redis features, the one worth mentioning about is out of the box support…

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BTrace: hidden gem in Java developer toolbox

This post is about BTrace which I am considering as a hidden gem for Java developer. BTrace is a safe,…

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Using Redis with Spring

As NoSQL solutions are getting more and more popular for many kind of problems, more often the modern projects consider…

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