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Ignoring Unmapped Properties with MapStruct 1. Overview In Java applications, we may wish to copy values from one type of Java bean to another. To avoid long, error-prone code, we can use a bean mapper such as MapStruct. While mapping identical fields with identical field names is very straightforward, we… Continue Reading mapstruct-ignore-unmapped-properties
Integrating Spring with AWS Kinesis 1. Introduction Kinesis is a tool for collecting, processing, and analyzing data streams in real-time, developed at Amazon. One of its main advantages is that it helps with the development of event-driven applications. In this tutorial, we’ll explore a few libraries that enable our Spring… Continue Reading spring-aws-kinesis
Software Transactional Memory in Java Using Multiverse 1. Overview In this article, we’ll be looking at the Multiverse library – which helps us to implement the concept of Software Transactional Memory in Java. Using constructs out of this library, we can create a synchronization mechanism on shared state – which… Continue Reading java-multiverse-stm
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Jackson – Custom Serializer 1. Overview This quick tutorial will show how to serialize a Java entity with Jackson 2 using a Custom Serializer. If you want to dig deeper and learn other cool things you can do with the Jackson 2 – head on over to the main Jackson… Continue Reading jackson-custom-serialization
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Working with Microsoft Excel in Java 1. Introduction In this tutorial, we will demonstrate the use of the Apache POI and JExcel APIs for working with Excel spreadsheets. Both libraries can be used to dynamically read, write and modify the content of an Excel spreadsheet and provide an effective way… Continue Reading java-microsoft-excel
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Introduction to Smooks 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll introduce the Smooks framework. We’ll describe what it’s, list its key features, and eventually learn how to use some of its more advanced functionality. First of all, let’s briefly explain what the framework is meant to achieve. 2. Smooks Smooks is… Continue Reading smooks
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Apache Commons BeanUtils 1. Overview Apache Commons BeansUtils contains all tools necessary for working with Java beans. Simply put, a bean is a simple Java classes containing fields, getters/setters, and a no-argument constructor. Java provides reflection and introspection capabilities to identify getter-setter methods and call them dynamically. However, these APIs… Continue Reading apache-commons-beanutils
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Different Types of Flows in Mule 1. Introduction Mule is a Java-based product which provides an enterprise service bus (ESB) solutions. We can develop Mule applications using Anypoint Studio, an Eclipse plugin. After a brief introduction to ESB’s and flows, we’ll talk about the different types of flows in Mule, and… Continue Reading mule-esb-flows
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Introduction to Hazelcast Jet 1. Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll learn about Hazelcast Jet. It’s a distributed data processing engine provided by Hazelcast, Inc. and is built on top of Hazelcast IMDG If you want to learn about Hazelcast IMDG, here is an article for getting started. 2. What is Hazelcast… Continue Reading hazelcast-jet
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Introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types Cloud Data 1. Overview In this article, we’ll look at conflict-free replicated data types (CRDT) and how to work with them in Java. For our examples, we’ll use implementations from the wurmloch-crdt library. When we have a cluster of N replica nodes in a… Continue Reading java-conflict-free-replicated-data-types
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