Baeldung Weekly Review 3
Last updated: October 1, 2021
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 interesting.
Let me know in the comments if you’re finding my reviews interesting and useful.
Here we go…
1. Spring
>> Spring and Angular JS: A Secure Single Page Application
>> The Login Page: Angular JS and Spring Security Part II
A solid, detailed introduction to securing a single page app with Angular on the front end and Spring Security on the back end. This is going to be an important reference going forward.
>> “Configuring It All Out” or “12-Factor App-Style Configuration with Spring”
Configuration is easy to get wrong. It’s always a balancing act of how much flexibility you want and how much complexity you’re comfortable with. This article gives you the tools you need to do a good job reaching that balance.
Lots of Spring goodness this week (this is why Spring is the first section of the review on this one).
>> Getting Started with Gradle: Creating a Multi-Project Build
Continuing the Gradle series, this article goes into detail on how to structure a multi-module build.
I haven’t jumped on the Gradle bandwagon yet, but if I do, I’ll definitely be coming back to this article for a step-by-step guide on how to do it.
Some very cool presentations:
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>> Making Spring Boot Even Groovier
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>> Inside spring.io: a Production Spring Reference Application
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>> Caching and Messaging Improvements in Spring Framework 4.1
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>> From 0 to Spring Security 4.0
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>> Spring Framework on Java 8
And the interesting releases of the week:
2. Java
>> Testing with files and directories in JUnit with @Rule
I wasn’t aware of this cool JUnit @Rule for intelligently working with the filesystem – looks helpful.
>> A beginner’s guide to Java Persistence locking
A high level intro to JPA 2.0 / Hibernate locking.
>> Java 8 Streams API as Friendly ForkJoinPool Facade
A few fun exercises using the new Streams API to submit work to a ForkJoinPool.
>> Everything You Need To Know About Default Methods
A good theoretical reference on default methods, aiming to basically cover everything there is to be covered on the subject.
Would benefit from a few more code examples showing how some of the scenarios/examples work. Must have taken a heck of a long time to put together.
3. Technical and Musings
>> The God Login
A thorough analysis of what a good authentication process looks like, what problems it solves and how it can be made so that it doesn’t annoy the crap out of your users.
>> Dissecting an interview question: math is hard
A fun problem of adding to number together. Yeah.
4. Comics
And the weekly dose of some Dilbert greats:
>> Adding 2 more people to a project
>> It couldn’t be worse
>> Minor website changes
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.
