Testing REST with multiple MIME types

1. Overview This article will focus on testing a RESTful Service with multiple Media Types/representations. This is the tenth of…

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Spring Property Placeholder Configurer – A few not so obvious options

Spring’s PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer is used for externalizing properties from the Spring bean definitions defined in XML or using Java Config. There…

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ETags for REST with Spring

1. Overview This article will focus on ETags – the Spring support, integration testing of the RESTful API, and consumption…

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@Cacheable overhead in Spring

Spring 3.1 introduced great caching abstraction layer. Finally we can abandon all home-grown aspects, decorators and code polluting our business…

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Spring MVC – Customizing RequestMappingHandlerMapping

When Spring MVC is configured using <mvc:annotation-driven/> in an xml bean definition file, internally a component called RequestMappingHandlerMapping gets registered…

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A Grails plugin to bridge Spring Security and Shiro

I started using Spring Security in 2007 when I was tasked with adding security to a Spring/Hibernate application at the…

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Camel 2.11 – Camel web applications without Spring

As I write this we have just added a new component to the upcoming Apache Camel 2.11, that allow to…

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Spring Dynamic Language Support with Groovy

Groovy is a dynamic and object-oriented programming language running on JVM. It uses a syntax like Java, can be embedded…

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Testing Spring Data MongoDB Applications with NoSQLUnit

Spring Data MongoDB is the project within Spring Data project which provides an extension to the Spring programming model for…

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