It’s another day, which means another gradle tip. I have been experimenting with JMX lately and using MBeanExporter to export spring beans so that I can interact with them over JMX (specifically, stopping and starting rabbitMQ consumers). I can get this working on any container easily enough but I really wanted to get it working [...]
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Cache Abstraction in Spring 3.1.0.M1
February 12th, 2011
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Another new feature released yesterday came in parallel with me tryingo ut some annotation based caching strategies. Caching Abstraction basically takes convention from an existing project and makes it part of spring core. Essentially it introduces a new interface, CacheManager, which can be implemented by a specific cache implementation. From there it adds a few [...]
JSON Message marshalling in spring-amqp
January 31st, 2011
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I’ve been doing a bit of exploration in spring-amqp lately and came across some of the built-in features to automatically marshall/unmarshall AMQP messages to java objects. Although you can get away with just having java objects implement Serializable but that just means you’ll only be dealing with java to java communication and that’ll break down [...]
St.Louis Java SIG Google Collections Presentation
June 10th, 2010
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Tonight I gave a presentation at the St.Louis Java SIG on Google Collections. Here is the presentation that I made with Prezi, but like always the presentation is much more effective in person as it mostly served as a visual aid to talking and live examples. .prezi-player { width: 500px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; [...]
Using Gradle For Your “Enterprise Java Project”
February 5th, 2010
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Yesterday evening I fooled around with gradle quite a bit, finally sitting down and taking some time to learn it as I’ve been hearing lots of good things about it. And man, I like it! I decided to use it to build the kind of project that enterprise architects go ga-ga over: a multi module [...]
Express Your Dependencies
December 29th, 2009
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Recently I gave a presentation on Test Doubles at a client site and while fielding questions at the end, one person asked how they could use Mockito (which I used to demonstrate Test Doubles) when autowiring fields with Spring. The problem he had was he was autowiring the fields, which were private, and which had [...]
Mockito for JVM 1.4 Released
October 21st, 2009
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For those of you who didn’t know, I’m currently contracted at a workplace that is still stuck using java 1.4 (I heard they might ring in 2010 by upgrading, but we’ll see). This has create a number of difficulties, chief amongst them (in my view) that I can’t use Mockito and most people use EasMock… [...]
Off to St.Louis
March 7th, 2008
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I’m at work finishing up some emails and waiting for the morning huddle to communicate a few things to my team, then it’s off to St.Louis for No Fluff Just Stuff …or as Than keeps calling it, “No Stuff Just Fluff.” I’ll be posting live from the conference for anyone interested in the content of [...]
NFJS Coming Up (Yet Again)
March 2nd, 2008
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Only a mere five days from now I’ll be attending the NFJS Gateway Software Symposium for the 4th time… and I’m pleased to say I’m quite excited. NFJS is one of those conferences that just has a knack for being fun, small, easily accessible, and very very educating. The “educating” part however is the only [...]
Smarter Javascript for Java Web Applications With JAWR
March 2nd, 2008
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One thing that has always annoyed me a little about javascript is the burden induced by modularity. Sure, you can keep your javascript in many small, testable files… but good grief it’s annoying when you have to put 10 or 15 script tags in the head of your document and thereby inducing much overhead on [...]
