Last time I talked about @Primary and @Autowire as a useful means of dependency injection. Today I will brief you on how @Autowire compares to its more standard counterpart @Resource and demonstrate @Qualifier as a handy complement to @Autowire. Both @Autowire and @Resource serve the same purpose, i.e. finding the right bean, but work in…
With a recent upgrade of my favorite framework I was thinking a short recap wouldn’t harm. This very first post, from a series of articles on Spring’s features I find interesting, deals with intricacies of injecting the right bean out of a range of suitable candidates. If you are keen to learn about the trade-offs when…
Up till now I have not come across that many projects that would truly conform to the principles of Test Driven Development. Once again, I found myself in an unenviable situation of introducing unit tests to a code which had been released to production a long time ago, completely untouched by any kind of test…
Grep4j caters for an easy search in log files. Since it is really easy to use and simple enough I could not resist the temptation to try it out. I came up with a simple scenario: Let’s use Spring MVC to conduct a small JSON-based web app, capture the exchanged requests and responses in a…
With Java EE 7 round the corner I was curious where open source application servers stand these days and what do they have on offer. So to educate myself a bit and step up from the usual Tomcat-centric routine I have created a simple overview of what I have found. Without ambition to compare the individual…
I have recently reviewed Arquillian‘s basic features and proof-tested it on a simple example. Today, I would like to talk about using Arquillian in a more realistic scenario. My ultimate goal is to tailor the tool for mobile apps development. For a start I sticked to a pure web and utilized jQuery Mobile. To give…