I’ve been using SdkMan! for a long time, it makes it quite easy to manage multiple versions of different frameworks. I’ve been almost exclusivly using it to manage Java SDK versions over the past years, and although I’m mostly writing code in Kotlin recently every now and then I’m also looking at Java based projects. …
I’ve been working in my current project for a while now and while it has its problems I mostly enjoy my envolvement in it. The project is based on Spring Boot and consists of a bunch of web-applications, both for endusers, internal personnel and operations staff. The team takes testing seriously, we have different code-quality …
This post has originally been published on the codecentric blog. It was translated to english and slightly edited for this blog. A month back the JUnit team published the offical version of JUnit 5. There’s plenty of resources for high level overviews and if you want to catch up I can recommend this (german) article …
After three years without any new JUnit version, a few weeks back on September 10th a new version of JUnit has been published: JUnit 5! While there were only minor upgrades to the popular testing library over the last couple of years, this was a big release that the JUnit team had been working on …
A few days ago VirtualJUG featured a very interesting talk on the upcoming new version of JUnit, namely JUnit 5. Nicolai Parlog did a great job in explaining the new features and architecture of the new version – if you haven’t seen it yet, go ahead and watch it. This weekend I’ve been getting my …
When writing Java, I’m a big fan of Lombok, a library that helps reduce boilerplate code through code-generation. I’ve written about it in the past, if you’re not familiar with it, checkout my previous posts here and here. Recently I’ve been confronted with the problem of providing defaults for generated Builder-classes generated by the @Builder …
There’s no shortage of options for Java developers when dealing with HTTP connections client-side. Java itself brings facilities to work with HTTP, but they are very low level and inconvenient as is Apache’s HttpClient. I’ve been using some more high-level implementations in the past, Spring’s RestTemplate is often a good fit, the same goes for …
During the last six months or so testing has become a special interest of mine. Most of my career I have worked in the Java ecosystem and the majority of tests I’ve seen and written have been using JUnit. Currently I’m looking into the Javascript world, where testing often is done in a different way. In contrast to Java, BDD-style tests are much more common here. There are some libraries that extend JUnit so that you can write tests in a different way, too, JBehave for example enables you to use Gherkin as a specification language, for which you then write a Java adapter that actually implements those specifications.
Recently I have started working on a large scale legacy project and I’ve had some time to understand how things work there. It is a fairly old JEE5-based tech setup and there are plenty of areas that can cause headaches. But a particular pain point is the way testing is handled. Yes, there are tests. …
I’ve written about Project Lombok’s @Builder annotation before (see here and here). We’ve started using it in our project some time ago in favour of the code generation library PojoBuilder. One thing has bugged me though during that time: Lombok’s @Builder annotation won’t generate code for inherited fields. It turns out, there is a solution to …