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Baeldung Weekly Review 17
Last updated: September 3, 2022
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:
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At the very beginning of 2014 I decided to track my reading habits and share the best stuff here, on Baeldung.
2014 has been quite the year, covering each week with a review. I’ve been doing a lot more reading to make sure I cover and curate stuff that has value and is actually worth reading.
Let me know in the comments if you’re finding my reviews interesting and useful.
Here we go…
1. Spring and Java
>> Java version statistics: 2015 edition
An inside look into Java 8 adoption in the industry.
>> Maven Integration Tests in Extra Source Folder
Quick and to the point guide for separating the integration tests in your Maven project.
An alternative approach that saves you from using the extra plugin is to simply define naming patterns for your tests and run them based on a regular expression.
>> Spring From the Trenches: Returning Git Commit Information as JSON
A detailed, clear guide to publishing Git information about a deployed application. This is the kind of thing where you know you’re no longer working on a toy app.
>> Spring Security 4.0: WebSocket, Spring Data and Test Support
A succinct rundown of the newly available features of Spring Security 4.
>> Spring: injecting lists, maps, optionals and getBeansOfType() pitfalls
Wiring in more complex beans in Spring can be tricky business – but it can certainly be done and done well.
Also worth reading:
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>> A beginner’s guide to Cache synchronization strategies
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>> Getting Rid Of Anonymous Classes
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>> Maven essentials for the impatient developer
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>> Functional-Style Callbacks Using Java 8’s CompletableFuture
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>> JUnit: Testing Exceptions with Java 8 and AssertJ 3.0.0
Webinars and presentations:
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>> Efficient Client-Server Communication with Differential Synchronization and JSON Patch
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>> Spring Integration Done Boot-ifully
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>> Centralized Application Configuration with Spring and Apache ZooKeeper
Time to upgrade:
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>> Spring Security 4.0.1 Released
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>> Spring Integration Hazelcast Support 1.0 Milestone 1 is available
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>> Apache Commons Math 3.5 is Out
2. Technical
>> Your Password is Too Damn Short
Mandatory reading (again).
Also worth reading:
3. Musings
>> The Swamp
A quick, beautifully simple analysis of the oh-so common problem of unwarranted optimism when tackling complex, difficult problems.
>> A Dreyfus model for Agile adoption
Very interesting article on the maturity with which we’re practicing Agile.
This week is packed with a surprising number of great pieces.
>> Defining The Corporate Hierarchy
A promising re-definition of Loser/Clueless/Sociopath corporate archetypes to a milder but perhaps more nuanced topology. A book is in the works as well.
>> Carnival Cash: The Cult of Seniority
A good dose of pragmatism and a great read for engineers starting out.
>> To be creative, work alone
It’s hard – almost impossible – to get into a state of flow when you’re not alone; a case well made.
4. Comics
And my favorite Dilberts of the week:
>> Would you like to be my idiot?
>> Was alcohol involved?
>> Easiest round of layoffs ever
5. Pick of the Week
Earlier this year I 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.
