IntelliJ’s text based HTTP client

IntelliJ provides a HTTP client that is purely text based. While this might sound strange at the beginning it turns…

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Kotlin infix functions

What are infix functions? If you are using Kotlin chances are high you already used infix functions. Maybe without knowing…

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REST: Managing Many-To-Many relations

Introduction Managing relations between multiple resources can be an essential part of an RESTful API. In this post we will…

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Java Text Blocks

Text Blocks are a JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP 355) available as preview language feature in JDK 13 and 14. It…

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Looking at Java Records

JEP 359, available as preview feature in JDK 14, introduces records to Java. Records are an easy way to model…

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REST / Using feeds to publish events

Dealing with events When working with multiple decoupled services (e.g. in a micro service architecture) it is very likely that…

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Java 14: Looking at the updated switch statement

JDK 14, released in March 2020, comes with an updated version of the switch statement. This has been a preview…

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Composing custom annotations with Spring

Java Annotations were introduced with Java 5 back in 2004 as a way to add meta data into Java source…

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REST / HTTP methods: POST vs. PUT vs. PATCH

Each HTTP request consists of a method (sometimes called verb) that indicates the action to be performed on the identified…

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