Autowiring prototypes
One thing that’s always annoyed me about using the @Autowired annotation to configure Spring beans is that the standard interface for instantiating prototype beans is not refactoring-friendly. For...
View ArticleIn memory of our loved pointcuts
Using AOP, Spring allows you to easily intercept (or wrap) execution points and “magically” add some particular behavior (an Advice in AOP terms).Defining the executing points of interest (that is –...
View ArticleFun with Spring’s OpenSessionInViewFilter and Wicket
I have been spending some time exploring Spring‘s OpenSessionInViewFilter to use as part of our persistence framework for some of our Wicket web applications (particularly for small projects where...
View ArticleSpring TestContext Framework
“The Spring TestContext Framework provides generic, annotation-driven unit and integration testing support that is agnostic of the testing framework in use, whether JUnit 3.8.2, JUnit 4.5+, TestNG...
View ArticleHibernate Persistence Unit Test using the Spring TestContext Framework
This is a simple example of how to write a Hibernate Persistence JUnit4 test for your Spring / Hibernate application using the Spring TestContext Framework. The Test: @ContextConfiguration(locations =...
View ArticleSpring: Persistence Test – Commit or Rollback?
Recently I was discussing Persistence tests with a few folks here at Intelliware. The debate on the table…Commit or rollback? It was almost evenly split down the middle. But even within that I found a...
View ArticleHibernate Persistence Test – Check for Proxy
Recently we ran into a performance problem, the root cause of which is described in One-to-one Hibernate mapping not proxied if optional. As an after thought I wondered if a unit test approach could...
View ArticleDomain Driven Design with Spring and AspectJ
Learn how to inject dependencies at runtime with spring and aspectj. http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/02/domain-driven-design-spring-aspectj.html
View ArticleMaven, Spring, and the Shade Uber-Jar
The Maven Shade plugin creates a Uber-jar which is a jar of a given maben project and all of it’s runtime dependencies. This is a handy tool, especially when you make the uber jar executable....
View ArticleSpring Improving Data Access Technologies
Spring Data makes it easier to build applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services as well as provide...
View ArticleDRY configuration
Externalizing application configuration values into a properties file is a common pattern in enterprise applications, because it gets the environment-specific settings out of the code and avoids the...
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