Grouping multiple repositories with git submodules

A while back I had to make some changes to a couple of existing microservices that were new to me.…

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Unit testing HTTP calls with LocalTestServer

There are times when you’re unit testing code that is making HTTP calls to a remote server. You could be…

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Don’t jump on the microservices bandwagon

A couple of weeks ago I was very fortunate to be able to attend the excellent GOTO Amsterdam conference. One…

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Custom Boolean User Type with Hibernate JPA

The ANSI SQL 1999 standard introduced a BOOLEAN data type (although unfortunately only as an optional feature). But to date…

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RESTful Error Handling with Spring

This post will illustrate a way in which exception handling can be implemented for RESTful web services in Spring in…

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Logging JAX-WS SOAP messages in Spring

Whenever you’re using JAX-WS within Spring you’ll probably want to log the incoming and outgoing SOAP messages – if only…

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Server side logging from browser side JavaScript code

Application logging is something we all do in our applications that get deployed on an application server, right? Using frameworks…

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Tips for (unit testing) JavaBeans

If you’re writing Java code chances are you’re writing at least a few classes that adhere to the JavaBean conventions,…

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Some more unit test tips

In my previous post I showed some tips on unit testing JavaBeans. In this blog entry I will give two…

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