The Baeldung Weekly Review 9
Last updated: October 16, 2018
The Weekly Review on Baeldung is a curated list of the best stuff I read each week – a handful of articles that are well worth reading (in no particular order).
With the final weekly review of February – hold on to your hat!
On Spring
We’ll start strong with a lot of Spring official resources:
- => Accessing JPA Data with REST – a new guide about the ever-improving REST support in Spring.
- => Groovy Bean Configuration in Spring Framework 4 – the Groovy Bean Builder is a real alternative to the now standard @Configuration classes.
- => Webinar Replay: Spring Data Repositories – Best Practices – Over an hour of Spring Data goodness in video form.
- => Spring Data Redis 1.2 GA Released – Hot on the heels of the Spring Data Release train last week – Spring Data Redis 1.2 is out this week (will be part of the next Spring Data train).
=> Session Timeout and Concurrent Session Control with Spring Security and Spring-MVC
Good look into the Spring Security options for managing sessions.
=> Tracking Application Exceptions With Spring
An interesting discussion about monitoring an application – and building a quick and custom tool to proactively monitor logs. Funny to.
On Java
=> Java 8 Friday Goodies: Easy-as-Pie Local Caching
A look into how Map can be used as a local cache in Java 8 – using the new computeIfAbsent atomic operation and the lambda support.
=> Caching best practices
Inspired by the previous article – Vlad talks through some great insights about caching. I wish I would have read the first part of this post 8 years ago when I was starting out – it would have saved me a bit of time.
=> JUnit ExpectedException rule: beyond basics
If you’ve been dealing with exceptions in JUnit tests manually – using rules is a good step forward, as it eliminates a long of cruft and unnecessary code.
=> How to Eliminate Bugs Through High Cohesion
Example driven discussion about growing and evolving an API – as opposed to trying to get it right from the get go. Read this if you’re building any kind of API (you probably are even if you don’t know it).
=> HOW-TO: Test dependencies in a Maven project (JUnit, Mocito, Hamcrest, AssertJ)
A nice short introduction to going beyond JUnit with additional testing libraries (and Maven).
Technical
=> Increase mobile performances by implementing transparent redirects
The concept of a transparent redirect – and the interesting idea of potentially extending the HTTP spec with a new redirect status.
=> 10 lsof command usages with example – Unix/Linux
Useful to have it your back pocket.
General Musings
=> We Need More Foremen
A great answer to a well intentioned but somewhat limited perspective on teams and good software development. This cuts right to the heart of the problem – on a healthy team, everyone should take responsibility.
Keeping with tradition, if you read one single article out of this weeks review – this is the one you should read!
=> Choosing Secure Passwords
A good in-depth discussion about choosing and administering your passwords – a lot to learn from this article.
=> Define An API By Consuming It
Thinking your way correctly through the decisions you’re building and growing an API is a very useful skill to have. TDD will get you half way there – but ultimately the right frame of mind is very useful when deciding the abstractions and the responsibilities of your own API.
I’ve been picking a lot of API articles lately – mainly because it’s so important to get yours right – which is, I think – a good way to end this one.
