Some Of My Mostly Used Development Mantras (1/2)

Statement: I assume it works this way! Mantra: assumption is the mother of all fuckups Let’s start with this short…

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Building a SOAP Webservices Proxy Module using Spring Webservices

Some time ago I wanted to see how easy it is to write a web services proxy (wsproxy) using Spring…

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WS-Security: using BinarySecurityToken for authentication

As we all know, one goal set by WS-Security is to enforce integrity and/or confidentially on SOAP messages. In case…

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Splitting Large XML Files in Java

Last week I was asked to write something in Java that is able to split a single 30GB XML file…

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JMS and Spring: Small Things Sometimes Matter

JmsTemplate and DefaultMessageListenerContainer are Spring helpers for accessing JMS compatible MOM. Their main goal is to form a layer above…

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Bulk fetching with Hibernate

If you need to process large database result sets from Java you can opt for JDBC to give you the…

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Migrating from Hibernate 3 to 4 with Spring integration

This week it was time to upgrade our code base to the latest Hibernate 4.x. We postponed our migration (still…

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JavaFX 2 with Spring

I’m going to start this one with a bold statement: I always liked Java Swing, or applets for that matter.…

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