Java EE 8 MVC: Getting started with Ozark

About a year ago a new action based MVC framework, simply called MVC, was announced for Java EE 8. MVC…

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Exception Translation with ET

Some time ago I wrote a small blog post about exception translation with AspectJ. In this blog post we will…

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What’s new in Grails 3

A few days ago Grails 3.0 was officially released. Grails is now based on Spring Boot, the build system changed…

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Using Java 8 Lambda expressions in Java 7 or older

I think nobody declines the usefulness of Lambda expressions, introduced by Java 8. However, many projects are stuck with Java…

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Creating Android Apps with Groovy 2.4

A few days ago Groovy 2.4 was released. One of the major news is that Groovy now officially supports Android…

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Looking into the Java 9 Money and Currency API (JSR 354)

JSR 354 defines a new Java API for working with Money and Currencies, which is planned to be included in…

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Injecting domain objects instead of infrastructure components

Dependency Injection is a widely used software design pattern in Java (and many other programming languages) that is used to…

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Reduce Boilerplate Code in your Java applications with Project Lombok

One of the most frequently voiced criticisms of the Java programming language is the amount of Boilerplate Code it requires.…

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Understanding JUnit’s Runner architecture

Some weeks ago I started creating a small JUnit Runner (Oleaster) that allows you to use the Jasmine way of…

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