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Baeldung Weekly Review 45
Last updated: October 23, 2021
Modern software architecture is often broken. Slow delivery leads to missed opportunities, innovation is stalled due to architectural complexities, and engineering resources are exceedingly expensive.
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Modern software architecture is often broken. Slow delivery leads to missed opportunities, innovation is stalled due to architectural complexities, and engineering resources are exceedingly expensive.
Orkes is the leading workflow orchestration platform built to enable teams to transform the way they develop, connect, and deploy applications, microservices, AI agents, and more.
With Orkes Conductor managed through Orkes Cloud, developers can focus on building mission critical applications without worrying about infrastructure maintenance to meet goals and, simply put, taking new products live faster and reducing total cost of ownership.
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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:
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:
Modern software architecture is often broken. Slow delivery leads to missed opportunities, innovation is stalled due to architectural complexities, and engineering resources are exceedingly expensive.
Orkes is the leading workflow orchestration platform built to enable teams to transform the way they develop, connect, and deploy applications, microservices, AI agents, and more.
With Orkes Conductor managed through Orkes Cloud, developers can focus on building mission critical applications without worrying about infrastructure maintenance to meet goals and, simply put, taking new products live faster and reducing total cost of ownership.
Try a 14-Day Free Trial of Orkes Conductor today.
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.
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Regression testing is an important step in the release process, to ensure that new code doesn't break the existing functionality. As the codebase evolves, we want to run these tests frequently to help catch any issues early on.
The best way to ensure these tests run frequently on an automated basis is, of course, to include them in the CI/CD pipeline. This way, the regression tests will execute automatically whenever we commit code to the repository.
In this tutorial, we'll see how to create regression tests using Selenium, and then include them in our pipeline using GitHub Actions:, to be run on the LambdaTest cloud grid:
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At the very beginning of 2014 I decided to start to track my reading habits and share the best stuff here, on Baeldung.
Curating my reading has made it more purposeful and diverse – and I’m hopefully providing value to you as well by allowing the best content of the week to raise to the top.
Here we go…
1. Java and Spring
>> One more library for JDK 9?
A “Put Op or Shut Up” call to arms for an addition to the JDK – one that’s potentially small enough to make it into JDK 9 and also belongs there. Any thoughts?
>> Converting from Joda-Time to java.time
I’ve been using joda-time for as long as I can remember. However, moving into JDK 8 territory – it’s time to switch back to the standard Date libraries. Here’s how.
>> An entity modelling strategy for scaling optimistic locking
Another good piece on optimistic locking – this time about strategies of using versions for entities. This looks like a small eBook in the making.
>> No properties in the Java language
“The Java Language is not getting properties”
>> How Immutability Helps
Good insights into why immutability should clearly be a major focus for library designers. For everyone else really, but the design of a library that’s used by a lot of developers sets the tone and should lead by example.
>> JMeter Version 2.12 Is Out
JMeter is an essential tool, and one that I find myself using on each and every non trivial project. So when a new version comes out with a lot of cool features – I’m excited.
>> Spring boot war packaging
Quick and to the point about how to do the war packaging for a Spring Boot project, instead of the executable jar approach.
And a host of Webinars replays from SpringOne:
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>> SpringOne2GX 2014 Replay: Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms
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>> SpringOne2GX 2014 Replay: Living in the Matrix with Bytecode Manipulation
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>> SpringOne2GX 2014 Keynote Day 1 – Platform Reinvented
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>> SpringOne2GX 2014 Keynote Day 2 – Platform Reinvented
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>> Webinar Replay: Security for Microservices with Spring and OAuth2
And of course, the releases of the week:
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>> Spring Framework 4.1.2 & 4.0.8 & 3.2.12 released
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>> Spring Boot 1.1.9 released
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>> Spring Boot 1.2.0.RC1 Available Now
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>> Spring IO Platform 1.0.3 released
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>> Spring Security OAuth 2.0.4.RELEASE Available Now
2. Technical and Musings
>> The “Synthesize the Experts” Anti-Pattern
An interesting read about mentorship in growing in the technical sense.
>> Development Overhead
There are so many aspects to being productive that measuring a language by verbosity is a bit misleading. This is an interesting read on how a developer might spend their time on things other than actual coding.
3. Comics
The creator of XKCD – Randall Munroe is a weird man – here’s the cool stuff weirdness leads to:
>> Geese
>> Efficiency
>> Cemetery
4. Pick of the Week
I recently introduced the “Pick of the Week” section here in my “Weekly Review”. If you’re already on my email list – you have the pick already – hope you enjoyed it.
