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Hibernate Field Naming with Spring Boot 1. Introduction In this brief tutorial, we’ll see how to use the Hibernate naming strategies in a Spring Boot application. 2. Maven Dependencies If we begin with a Maven-based Spring Boot application, and we are happy to embrace Spring Data, then we just need… Continue Reading hibernate-field-naming-spring-boot
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A Simple File Search with Lucene 1. Overview Apache Lucene is a full-text search engine, which can be used by various programming languages. To get started with Lucene, please refer to our introductory article here. In this quick article, we’ll index a text file and search sample Strings and text… Continue Reading lucene-file-search
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Displaying Dates in the Timezone of the User 1. Overview In this installment of the Reddit app case study, we’re going to be adding the be scheduling post’s according to the user’s timezone. Dealing with timezones is notoriously difficult and the technical options are wide open. Our first concern is… Continue Reading reddit-app-show-date-in-the-users-timezone
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Guide to Character Encoding 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll discuss the basics of character encoding and how we handle it in Java. 2. Importance of Character Encoding We often have to deal with texts belonging to multiple languages with diverse writing scripts like Latin or Arabic. Every character in… Continue Reading java-char-encoding
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Guide to Java 8’s Collectors 1. Overview In this tutorial, we will be going through Java 8’s Collectors, which are used at the final step of processing a Stream. If you want to read more about Stream API itself, check this article. 2. The Stream.collect() Method Stream.collect() is one of… Continue Reading java-8-collectors
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Overview of Spring-Boot Dev Tools 1. Introduction Spring Boot gives us the ability to quickly setup and run services. To enhance the development experience further, Spring released the spring-boot-devtools tool – as part of Spring Boot-1.3. This article will try to cover the benefits we can achieve using the new… Continue Reading spring-boot-devtools
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Multiple Entry Points in Spring Security 1. Overview In this quick tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to define multiple entry points in a Spring Security application. This mainly entails defining multiple http blocks in an XML configuration file or multiple HttpSecurity instances by extending the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter… Continue Reading spring-security-multiple-entry-points
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Difference Between Stub, Mock, and Spy in the Spock Framework 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’re going to discuss the differences between Mock, Stub, and Spy in the Spock framework. We’ll illustrate what the framework offers in relation to interaction based testing. Spock is a testing framework for Java and… Continue Reading spock-stub-mock-spy
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The Checker Framework – Pluggable Type Systems for Java 1. Overview From the Java 8 release onwards, it’s possible to compile programs using the so-called Pluggable Type Systems – which can apply stricter checks than the ones applied by the compiler. We only need to use the annotations provided by… Continue Reading checker-framework
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Kotlin Nested and Inner Classes 1. Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll look at four ways to create nested and inner classes in Kotlin. 2. Quick Comparison to Java For those thinking about Java nested classes, let’s do a quick rundown of related terms: Kotlin Java Inner Classes Non-Static Nested Classes… Continue Reading kotlin-inner-classes
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