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Baeldung Weekly Review 48
Last updated: June 30, 2017
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
>> Java Doesn’t Suck – You’re Just Using it Wrong
Let’s put our best foot forward and start this weeks review with a must read. If you’re reading my reviews, you’re likely doing some work in Java – in which case, this piece will be highly useful.
Some of these points are obvious but I need to give a bit more through to the ones that aren’t.
>> New Java Version – it’s not JDK 1.9
I never thought I’d see the day, but it looks like it actually may be happening – Java’s going for semantic versioning. No more elvish 1.7.0_65-b20 (7u65) – but simple 7.6.15.
And since we’re on JDK related news, the main JDK 9 page was just updated with a few interesting tidbits. A few more JEPs as well as a proposal to drop the JSON API!
>> 15 Tools Java Developers Should Use After a Major Release
Whenever I come across a system running in production without monitoring or a good logging solution – and it happens more often than you’d imagine – I tend to fall back to a few of the solutions in this article.
I always find these high level comparisons useful – they give you the much needed context of someone who took the time to try out all of the options for themselves.
>> The Fatal Flaw of Finalizers and Phantoms
An in-depth read on why not to use finalizers in Java.
>> Latest Jackson integration improvements in Spring
I’m very excited about the new Jackson goodness in the very latest Spring releases – it looks like it’s going to allow a lot more flexibility in terms of output.
>> First Milestone of Spring Data Release Train Fowler Available
Spring Data needs no introduction – here’s what’s going to be available in the next release. Or – if you’re not going with it in production, what might already be available by using this Milestone. I’m going to try the new Elasticsearch release shortly.
>> Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.6.3 released
Step right up. Upgrade your IDE.
>> Avoid unwanted component scanning of Spring Configuration
If you have the problem of duplicate beans in your Spring context, you might not even be aware of it. Here’s a simple solution for the Spring Security configuration.
>> Spring request-level memoization
A cool technique to leverage caching as cross-cutting concern of your system and get repeatable reads at the request level with Spring.
>> Spring RestTemplate with a linked resource
Making the RestTemplate HAL aware – very cool indeed.
And finally, the webinar recordings that I have on my TODO list for this weekend:
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>> Building Reactive applications with Reactor and the Reactive Streams standa4d
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>> Spring Boot and Netflix OSS
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>> Security for Microservices with Spring and OAuth2
2. Technical and Musings
>> The Dominant Leader Fallacy
“Leadership is a matter of trust — not dominance.” The last sentence sums up this piece quite well – mosey over and give it a read if you resonate with that.
>> TDDaiymi vs. Naked Primitives
TDD-ing your way to good design is a learned skill that takes years of practice. I’m certainly not “there” yet, nor do I think there is a “There” really.
That being said – these Katas/Activities are a very useful kick in the read end. And the only way to start – unless your uber-disciplined – is doing them in a group setting, such as a code retreat – where you have no other choice.
>> Getting Started with Machine Learning
A conversational intro to machine learning, along with an actual example of how to build yourself a classifier (and why).
>> What is the Web?
You’ve been doing development on the web in some shape of form for years now, as have I. Is it still worth reading this article?
Yes it is!
>> Static Typing Is Not for Type Checking
A nuanced view on some of the advantages of statically-typed language. An interesting read.
>> Git 2.2.0 is out!
Nice overview of what’s new and useful in the 2.2 release of Git.
3. Comics
XKCD is my go to. Dilbert is a close second:
>> Anonymous Survey
>> Lie by omission?
>> A nun, a CEO and a Scientist a in a burning building
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 got the pick already – hope you enjoyed it.
