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The Baeldung Weekly Review 32 At the very beginning of 2014 I decided to start better documenting my reading habits and sharing them here with all of you. The point is two fold – by curating and documenting, my reading has become more purposeful and diverse. Also – I believe… Continue Reading 2014-week-review-32
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Self-Contained Testing Using an In-Memory Database 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’re going to create a simple Spring application which relies on an in-memory database for testing. For the standard profile, the application will have a standalone MySQL database configuration, which requires having the MySQL server installed and running, with… Continue Reading spring-jpa-test-in-memory-database
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Introduction to Java Logging 1. Overview Logging is a powerful aid for understanding and debugging program’s run-time behavior. Logs capture and persist the important data and make it available for analysis at any point in time. This article discusses the most popular java logging frameworks, Log4j 2 and Logback, along… Continue Reading java-logging-intro
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Converters, Listeners and Validators in Java EE 7 Java EE 1. Overview Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) 7 provides some useful features e.g. for validating user input, converting values into appropriate Java data types. In this tutorial, we’ll focus on those features provided by converters, listeners, and validators. 2. Converters A… Continue Reading java-ee7-converter-listener-validator
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Working with Select and Option in Thymeleaf 1. Overview Thymeleaf is the very popular templating engine bundled together with Spring Boot. We’ve already published a number of articles about it, and we highly recommend going over the Baeldung’s Thymeleaf series. In this tutorial, we’re going to look at how to… Continue Reading thymeleaf-select-option
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Templating with Handlebars 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll look into the Handlebars.java library for easy template management. 2. Maven Dependencies Let’s start with adding the handlebars dependency: <dependency> <groupId>com.github.jknack</groupId> <artifactId>handlebars</artifactId> <version>4.1.2</version> </dependency> 3. A Simple Template A Handlebars template can be any kind of text file. It consists of… Continue Reading handlebars
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Comparing Dates in Java 1. Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll focus on how to compare dates using the Java 8 Date/Time API. We’ll dive into different methods to check whether two dates are equal and how to compare dates. 2. Comparing Dates The basic way to express a date in… Continue Reading java-comparing-dates
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Send the Logs of a Java App to the Elastic Stack (ELK) 1. Overview In this quick tutorial, we’ll discuss, step by step, how to send out application logs to the Elastic Stack (ELK). In an earlier article, we focused on setting up the Elastic Stack and sending JMX data… Continue Reading java-application-logs-to-elastic-stack
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The Baeldung Weekly Review 9 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… Continue Reading 2014-week-review-9
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Managing EC2 Instances in Java 1. Overview In this article, we’ll learn to control EC2 resources using the Java SDK. If you’re new to ** EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) – this is a platform which provides compute capacity in Amazon’s cloud. 2. Prerequisites The Maven dependencies, AWS account settings and… Continue Reading ec2-java
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