Java
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Make Your Factories Beautiful
Every java programmer worth the name knows about the Factory Pattern. It is a convenient and standardized way to reduce…
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Differences in JPA entity locking modes
JPA provides essentially 2 types of locking mechanisms to help synchronize access to entities. Both mechanisms prevent a scenario, where…
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NetBeans Java EE Tip #1 – Entity Classes From Database
The NetBeans IDE is an excellent choice for developing applications of all kind. Ā Specifically, I use it on a daily…
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One Thing Good Spring Developers Know
In my recent training sessions on the (core) Spring Framework, I was asked, “If there was one thing that a…
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JPA Pitfalls / Mistakes
From my experience, both in helping teams and conducting training, here are some pitfalls/mistakes I have encountered that caused some…
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Getting started with JavaParser: analyzing Java Code programmatically
One of the things I like the most is to parse code and to perform automatic operations on it. For…
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Definition of the Trait Pattern in Java
In this article I will present the concept of traits and give you a concrete example of how they can…
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The practice of reflection in action
In a previous article, I explained how the most essential agile practice is reflection. In this article, I outline examples…
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Advanced config with configuration meta-data in Spring Bootstrap
After a short introduction to configuration meta-data and covering the basics in my previous post calledĀ Pimp your config with configuration…
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