If you’ve ever developed unit tests in a serious project, you should know how frustrating it is to test a code that calls static methods. Here I’ll try to summarize 3 best practices that I normally use to test such a code. When does a static method requires a special care in unit tests? Not all static...
In this post I’ll show you how I managed to develop my first bash script in Java using JShell which incorporates JDK Text Block feature to produce a new file. The script is used to process hundreds of JPA entity classes and produce a builder class for them in Groovy. The Story During recent refactorings in our...
Repositories are one of my favorite patterns to make an abstraction of the data layer of an application. You may have heard about it if you have ever read an article about Domain Driven Design. Hence in this post I consider you have the basic familiarity with it and will focus mostly on how to implement this...
Java API for JSON Binding or JSON-B is one of the newest APIs that’s going to be a part of Java EE 8 and has already passed the Public Review Ballot. As you may guess from its name, the JSON-B is trying to standardize the way Java objects would be serialized (presented) in JSON and defines a standard API...
In my previous post, I’ve tried to explain overall architecture of Apache Karaf and its important components and services. Now in order to start using it, we have to get more familiar with the interaction mechanism provided by Apache Karaf, yes I mean the console, one of the most important features of Apache Karaf. What you’ll learn...
I Often take a look at different projects in Apache or JBoss projects list to know about newly added projects and be informed about the latest updates. One of my favourite ones is Apache Karaf which makes life easier for developers working with OSGi. In this post I’ll try to explain the role that Karaf plays in OSGi world....
