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6 years ago

Java Web Weekly, Issue 120

At the very beginning of last year, I decided to track my reading habits and share the best stuff here, on Baeldung. Haven’t missed a review since.

Here we go…

1. Spring and Java

===== >> How to Replace Rules in JUnit 5 [codeaffine.com]

I find deep-dives into the upcoming JUnit 5 very interesting.

But, if you’re using rules in JUnit 4 and know they’re going away in version 5 – you’ll find this one particularly useful.

>> Overriding Dependency Versions with Spring Boot [spring.io]

Gone are the days where you have to painstakingly lay out each Spring dependency and versions manually. There are now – and have been for a while – much easier ways to get your dependency tree in working order.

>> Hibernate 5: How to persist LocalDateTime & Co with Hibernate [thoughts-on-java.org]

I remember struggling with this a few years back – I’m glad Hibernate finally supports the new Date classes well.

>> Would We Still Criticise Checked Exceptions, If Java had a Better try-catch Syntax? [jooq.org]

As always, interesting ruminations on improving the Java syntax – this time with better try-catch syntax.

>> JUnit 5 – Extension Model [codefx.org]

Working with JUnit 5 is going to be fun, and extending it is going to be even more so.

Libraries (and IDEs) won’t have to hack around the API any more – which is bound to lead to some good things coming on top of the new JUnit.

Also worth reading:

===== >> Integration Architecture with Java EE and Spring [eisele.net]
===== >> Introducing FluentLenium (2) – Selenium waiting game [awesome-testing.com]
===== >> Couchbase as a First Class Citizen of Spring Boot 1.4 [spring.io]
===== >> Spring Batch Tutorial: Writing Information to a File [petrikainulainen.net]
===== >> Data aggregation with Spring Data MongoDB and Spring Boot [xpadro.blogspot.ro]
===== >> Using Spring Session for concurrent session control in a clustered environment [blog.trifork.com]
===== >> Java version and vendor data analyzed: 2016 edition [plumbr.eu]

Webinars and presentations:

===== >> Interview: Interview with Gil Tene on Hardware Transactional Memory [infoq.com]
===== >> Generics and Java’s Evolution [infoq.com]
===== >> Developing Cloud-native Applications with Eclipse and the Spring Tool Suite [infoq.com]
===== >> High Performance Stream Processing [spring.io]
===== >> Microservices to FastData in the Enterprise with Spring [spring.io]
===== >> NoXML – Eliminating XML in Your Spring Projects [spring.io]
===== >> Building Smart Editors with Eclipse and JavaFX [infoq.com]

Time to upgrade:

===== >> Spring Boot 1.4.0.M2 Available Now [spring.io]
===== >> Spring for Apache Kafka 1.0 Milestone 2 Available [spring.io]
===== >> Spring Integration Kafka Support 2.0.0.M1 is now available [spring.io]
===== >> Spring WS 2.3.0 is released [spring.io]
===== >> Spring Integration AWS 1.0.0.M1 is now available [spring.io]

2. Technical

===== >> How to run database integration tests 20 times faster [vladmihalcea.com]

I haven’t seen a ram disk in a while ?

This writeup is practical and chock full of solid advice if you want to speed up your builds and don’t mind getting your hands a bit dirty with some low level tools.