Java Web Weekly, Issue 132

Quite an interesting week with Java 9 almost ready to commit to a hard date, a solid HATEOAS writeup for the Spring ecosystem and lots of releases and goodness.

JMockit 101

A simple and practical guide to testing and mocking with JMockit.

Testing with Hamcrest

In this very practical tutorial, we focus on using the Hamcrest API and on writing neater and more intuitive unit tests for our software.

Introduction to Spring REST Docs

This article introduces Spring REST Docs, a test-driven mechanism to generate documentation for RESTful services that is both accurate and readable.

Java Web Weekly, Issue 124

A deeper look at the upcoming JUnit 5, the new version of Spring Security and some interesting musings on how code reviews are shaping our industry.

Conferences in May

After reading the enthusiastic Join me at GeeCON article I was inspired to do a quick writeup about the conferences that are coming up in the month of May. I’m super excited about May; first off, there’s GeeCON, starting on the 11th and wrapping up on the 13th and then SpringIO in Barcelona, on the […]

Introduction to PowerMock

This article demonstrates the use of the PowerMockito extension to Mockito’s capabilities, including the mocking of static, final, and private methods.

Java Web Weekly, Issue 120

A packed with with a focus on JUnit 5, the second RC of Spring Boot and avoiding burnout as a programmer. Good stuff.

Java Web Weekly, Issue 118

Jenkins 2, JUnit 5, Spring 5 – yeah, we’re definitely getting close to some exciting releases. A solid week chock full of solid writeups.

Java Web Weekly, Issue 117

Local variable type inference, a quick and useful way of running your JUnit tests more predictably and the first RC of Spring Security 4.1 – an exciting week.

Java Web Weekly, Issue 115

The details of Spring IO are out, Java 10 might be getting a significant syntax upgrade and the talks that have come out this week are quite interesting. Not too shabby.

Introduction to JsonPath

1. Overview One of the advantages of XML is the availability of processing — including XPath — which is defined as a W3C standard. For JSON, a similar tool called JSONPath has emerged. This tutorial will give an introduction to Jayway JsonPath, a Java implementation of the JSONPath specification. It describes setup, syntax, common APIs […]

Java Web Weekly, Issue 113

JUnit 5 is picking up the pace, lambdas are still fun to play with and a host of solid talks for the weekend. A good, interesting week.

Java Web Weekly 112

An interesting week with JUnit finally moving forward, new Hibernate documentation and some reactor updates in the Spring ecosystem.