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Basic and Digest authentication for a RESTful Service with Spring Security 3.1

By on November 20, 2011 in Java, REST, Spring, testing

This is the sixth of a series of articles about setting up a secure RESTful Web Service using Spring 3.1 and Spring Security 3.1. A previous article introduced security in the context of a RESTful service, using form-based authentication. This article will focus on configuration of Basic and Digest authentication and on configuring both protocols [...]

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RESTful Web Service Discoverability

By on November 6, 2011 in Java, REST, testing

This is the fourth of a series of articles about setting up a secure RESTful Web Service using Spring 3.1 and Spring Security 3.1 with Java based configuration. The article will focus on Discoverability of the REST API, HATEOAS and practical scenarios driven by tests.

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How to set up Integration Testing with the Maven Cargo plugin

By on October 16, 2011 in Java, testing

A very common need in the lifecycle of a project is setting up integration testing. Luckily, Maven has built-in support for this exact scenario, with the following phases of the default build lifecycle (from the Maven documentation):

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Introduction to Java integration testing for a RESTful API

By on October 13, 2011 in Java, REST, testing

This post will focus on basic principles and mechanics of writing Java integration tests for a RESTful API (with a JSON payload). The goal is to provide an introduction to the technologies and to write some tests for basic correctness. The examples will consume the latest version of the GitHub REST API. For an internal [...]

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How to avoid brittle tests when testing the service layer

By on October 2, 2011 in Spring, testing

There are many ways to test the service layer of an application. The goal here is to show how to unit test this layer in isolation, by mocking out the interactions with the database entirely. This example will use Spring 3 for the dependency injection, JUnit, Hamcrest and Mockito for testing, but the technologies can [...]

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