Java Weekly, Issue 234

Here we go…

1. Spring and Java

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>> Refactoring to Eclipse Collections: Making Your Java Streams Leaner, Meaner, and Cleaner [infoq.com]

Turbocharged streams processing with this drop-in replacement for the Java Collections Framework classes. Very cool.

>> WireMock Tutorial: Request Matching, Part Two [petrikainulainen.net]

An interesting write-up about specifying expectations for HTTP request parameters, headers, and cookies.

>> User impersonation with Spring Security [marcosbarbero.com]

A good way to empower your customer support analyst to log in as another user without compromising passwords.

>> The Road to Reactive Spring Cloud [spring.io]

A major step here – as reactive programming goes mainstream in Spring Cloud. I've been waiting for this one to drop.

>> Tricks with ‘var’ and anonymous classes (that you should never use at work) [blog.codefx.org]

And a cool, thought-provoking write-up on local-variable type inference in Java 10. Use at your own risk!

Also worth reading:

• >> Maven: Use JUnit 5 with Spring Boot for Unit and Integration Tests [info.michael-simons.eu]

• >> JDK 8 BigInteger Exact Narrowing Conversion Methods [marxsoftware.blogspot.com]

• >> JDK 11: Beginning of the End for Java Serialization? [marxsoftware.blogspot.com]

• >> IntelliJ IDEA EAP 5: Dark Window Headers on macOS, Browse Repository at Revision, and more [blog.jetbrains.com]

Webinars and presentations:

• >> JDBC, What Is It Good For? [infoq.com]

Time to upgrade:

• >> Spring Security 5.0.6 and 4.2.7 Released [spring.io] and >> Spring Framework 5.0.7 and 4.3.18 available now [spring.io]

• >> Spring Boot 2.0.3 available now [spring.io] and >> Spring Boot 1.5.14 available now [spring.io]

• >> Spring Cloud Finchley.RELEASE is available [spring.io]

• >> Spring Cloud Stream Ditmars.SR4 Released [spring.io]

• >> Spring Data Ingalls SR13 and Kay SR8 released [spring.io]

• >> Spring Session Apple SR3 Released [spring.io]

• >> Announcing Reactor Bismuth-SR10 [spring.io]

• >> Spring IO Platform Brussels SR11 [spring.io] and >> Spring IO Platform Cairo SR2 [spring.io]

• >> Spring Project Vulnerability Reports Published [spring.io]

• >> IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1.5 is released! [blog.jetbrains.com]

2. Technical and Musings

>> A beginner’s guide to Non-Repeatable Read anomaly [vladmihalcea.com]

Strategies for achieving read consistency during concurrent database operations.

>> Makefile 101 [odino.org]

The make tool — what else is it good for? Workflow automation, as it turns out!

Also worth reading:

• >> How Continuous Delivery Broke Your Application Reliability – and What You Need to Do to Fix It [blog.takipi.com]

• >> Growth Engineering at Netflix — Accelerating Innovation [medium.com]

• >> Electronic Signatures Using The Browser [techblog.bozho.net]

• >> Distributing desktop webapps via Docker [blog.frankel.ch]

• >> What is a presenter? [blog.sourced-bvba.be]

• >> Content Marketing Strategy with or without an Audience [daedtech.com]

3. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

>> We Need to Talk… [dilbert.com]

>> Business Jargon Overload [dilbert.com]

>> Wally + Nothing = Leadership? [dilbert.com]

4. Pick of the Week

>> YAML: probably not so great after all [arp242.net]