This morning, while driving to work, I turned on the radio, and an old song was playing: "Everybody's Free - Baz Luhrmann." This song is about an elderly
Manage and reload spring application properties on the fly
By now, everybody is aware that configurable application properties should reside outside your artifact (war, jar, ear). We don't want to release a new version of your application/service, just
The danger of quick fix development
A few days ago I was reading a funny article about blundering Chinese workers that have created a stadium running track with right angled corners. Apparently the workers had to
Clean up your kids toy box with the loan pattern
Take a look at the following piece of code:
public class ToyBox {
public ToyBox() {
}
public ToyBox open() {
System.out.println("Open toy box :)");
return this;
}
public ToyBox lego(Testing a Spring RESTful Web Service
Untested code is legacy code!
Unit testing a Spring RESTful Web Service is quite easy, however this is not enough to ensure that your exposed logic actually works. In the