Java

Testing Logging

As a developer I recognise the importance of generating logs for the systems that I help design and develop. At the outset often everyone recognizes the importance of logging but somehow it’s very …

Dependency Inversion - Applying the principle

Container-less web apps

In his keynote ‘This is water’ Neal Ford talks about “Yesterday’s best practices become tomorrow’s anti-patterns”. This seems to be the case for application servers like WebSphere, WebLogic and JBoss. …

Java build tools 2013

I am about to embark on a new Java project so I thought I would take a look at the current state of build tools for Java projects. First I thought I would draw up some assessment criteria to use as a …

DRYing out code

Removing duplicate code is a great way to improve the internal quality of your application code. Duplications mean that you have more code than you should and are often the source of more subtle bugs …

Switching back and forth - Intellij IDEA and Eclipse

I have to confess that I am an IntelliJ Idea fan. I will confess that the key bindings take a little getting used to - especially on a Mac but I find I am most productive using it. I do like to keep …

Web application testing - episode 1

This is my first screencast so all and any comments welcome!! This screencast is about adding an acceptance test to validate the title element in the returned HTML from the application. [flowplayer …

Java Properties handling - 1

I have been on a number of Java projects recently and one of the things I end up brewing for each of these projects is some enhanced management of runtime properties. Having said there are problems …