Package by layer for Spring project is obsolete

I believe Spring application shouldn’t be structured in package by layer approach. In my opinion, package by feature makes much…

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Create UML diagrams with simple DSL – PlantUML

Historically I disliked creating design UML diagrams, because the tooling for it mostly requires drawing boxes and connecting them with…

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Verifying DateTime and Date with Hamcrest

Since I started diving into automated testing and practicing TDD, verification of date values was pain. Luckily there is nice…

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How to mock Spring bean (version 2)

About a year ago, I wrote a blog post how to mock Spring Bean. Patterns described there were little bit…

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Enterprise Spring examples and integration tests

There was longer gap in my blog, because I was busy writing book Pivotal Certified Spring Enterprise Integration Specialist Exam –…

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How to mock Spring bean without Springockito

I work with Spring several years. But I was always frustrated with how messy can XML configuration become. As various…

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How to encapsulate Spring bean

As far as I know Spring Framework doesn’t provide any mechanism to encapsulate Spring beans other than having separate contexts.…

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Avoid unwanted component scanning of Spring Configuration

I came through interesting problem on Stack Overflow. Brett Ryan had problem that Spring Security configuration was initialized twice. When…

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Black Box Testing of Spring Boot Microservice is so easy

When I needed to do prototyping, proof of concept or play with some new technology in free time, starting new…

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