Spring Boot & Multi module projects – Adding module specific property files

Hello! In this post I will show you several ways how you can add module specific properties files in a…

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JUnit rules – executing additional verification when exceptions are thrown

In this post I will show you quickly how handy JUnit rules are if you need to solve the following challenge…

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JGroups: Leader election without additional infrastructure

Hi there, in this post I’ll show how you can solve the problem of leader election without using any additional infrastructure…

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Combining the power of Gradle, Flyway and JOOQ for seamless development with databases

Hi there, in this post I will show you how easily you can combine the power of Gradle, with Flyway and…

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Dependency Injection – Field vs Constructor vs Method

Hi, today I would like to discuss in short different ways of injecting dependencies into your classes. In general you have…

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Strategies to migrate from an DAO library

In this post I will discuss several strategies to handle the following situation: You’re working on a legacy project that uses a…

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Creating beautiful release notes with git, gradle and markdown

During the last days I asked myself how to generated releases notes from information that are available in commit  /…

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GIT & ZShell : Colorize your shell depending on your branch

As announced in my last post I asked my colleague Tillman if I’m allowed to post his nice extension for the zshell…

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Tutorial: Writing your own CDI extension

Today I will show you how to write a CDI extension. CDI provides a easy way for extending the functionality,…

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