The Baeldung Weekly Review 1
Last updated: October 16, 2018
Mocking is an essential part of unit testing, and the Mockito library makes it easy to write clean and intuitive unit tests for your Java code.
Get started with mocking and improve your application tests using our Mockito guide:
Handling concurrency in an application can be a tricky process with many potential pitfalls. A solid grasp of the fundamentals will go a long way to help minimize these issues.
Get started with understanding multi-threaded applications with our Java Concurrency guide:
Spring 5 added support for reactive programming with the Spring WebFlux module, which has been improved upon ever since. Get started with the Reactor project basics and reactive programming in Spring Boot:
Since its introduction in Java 8, the Stream API has become a staple of Java development. The basic operations like iterating, filtering, mapping sequences of elements are deceptively simple to use.
But these can also be overused and fall into some common pitfalls.
To get a better understanding on how Streams work and how to combine them with other language features, check out our guide to Java Streams:
Explore Spring Boot 3 and Spring 6 in-depth through building a full REST API with the framework:
Yes, Spring Security can be complex, from the more advanced functionality within the Core to the deep OAuth support in the framework.
I built the security material as two full courses - Core and OAuth, to get practical with these more complex scenarios. We explore when and how to use each feature and code through it on the backing project.
You can explore the course here:
Spring Data JPA is a great way to handle the complexity of JPA with the powerful simplicity of Spring Boot.
Get started with Spring Data JPA through the guided reference course:
Refactor Java code safely — and automatically — with OpenRewrite.
Refactoring big codebases by hand is slow, risky, and easy to put off. That’s where OpenRewrite comes in. The open-source framework for large-scale, automated code transformations helps teams modernize safely and consistently.
Each month, the creators and maintainers of OpenRewrite at Moderne run live, hands-on training sessions — one for newcomers and one for experienced users. You’ll see how recipes work, how to apply them across projects, and how to modernize code with confidence.
Join the next session, bring your questions, and learn how to automate the kind of work that usually eats your sprint time.
I decided to start the year with a new concept for baeldung – a Weekly Review.
I consume a lot of content (via RSS – which is alive and well), and this is a curated list of the best stuff I’ve read this week – a handful of articles that are well worth reading (in no particular order).
On Spring
=> Spring – Change transaction isolation level example
If you’ve ever seen this message: “Standard JPA does not support custom isolation levels” – than this will definitly be of interest, as it goes over the low level details of creating a custom dialect to deal with changing the isolation level in JPA. I haven’t tried this yet myself, but I’m planning to give it a go soon.
=> Using jOOQ with Spring: Configuration
An extensive run-through for setting up the fluent jOOQ with Spring – this is the first of an ongoing series.
On Java
=> Java Tuples
I’ve been using Java tuples a lot in recent years, mainly the implementation from commons-lang3 – the Pair and the more recent Triple, as they often provide a clean ad-hoc abstraction. So this is quite an interesting read.
HTTP and REST
=> How to spot a Hypermedia Client App
An insightful and very useful article going into what REST and the HATEOAS constraint means for client application – and how to spot a well written client from one that treats REST as RPC or plain CRUD over HTTP.
=> Strengthening HTTP: A Personal View
This is something that needs to be read back to back if you’re doing any kind of work with/over HTTP. Nuff said.
Technical
General Musings
=> Healthy benefits for the long run
A random find over on SVN – but a great read nonetheless – it goes into structuring a benefit plan for the long game.
Done
And that’s it – I hope you found something new and interesting in this roundup.
Please let me know if you have any kind of feedback to improve it or things you’d like to see here.
Cheers.
