Writing good unit tests for your central business logic is essential for the speed of your development and a confident deployment to production. But there are also parts of your application where plain unit tests with mocking frameworks like Mockito aren’t that useful or result in a “mocking-hell”. The interaction of your application with your database is…
Manually creating a new Java EE Maven project can be quite cumbersome. Creating all required folders and files for a simple JAX-RS endpoint with a database access was quite error-prone in the past for me. I constantly mixed up WEB-INF and META-INF with its files and was tired of manually creating the project structure. The bootstrapping of a…
Lately, I had the requirement to generate Word documents from specific templates and fill them dynamically with data. For this task, I compared the following Java libraries: Apache POI, iText PDF, Docx4j and XDocreports. I compared them while using the following characteristics: Possibility to replace variables, amount of additional dependencies, lines of code to generate…
Recently I had the requirement to limit the access to specific JAX-RS endpoints and to keep track of the user’s current amount of API calls. To solve this problem I asked Adam Bien (@AdamBien) in his monthly Airhacks Q&A about this requirement and he gave me a hint for a possible solution while using the ContainerRequestFilter interface…
For messaging, I have always thought of Apache Kafka as the central solution for messaging. While learning more about Java EE I came along the Java Message Service (JMS) specification and gave it a try. In addition, I wanted to learn more about the JMS capabilities of the Open Liberty application server. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to create a…
Securing your web application can be cumbersome. I recently tried to secure a JSF 2.3 application with the latest Java EE 8 Security API (JSR-375) and it was quite simple. In this blog post, I’ll show you the required configuration steps for securing your JSF application with a form-based authentication mechanism. In the example, I’ll use an…
As my last blog post about a short intro to JavaServer Faces 2.3 got a lot of attention (my tweet got even retweeted by the Java EE Guardian’s twitter page (@javaee_guardian) I want to continue to write about JSF. Today I’ll cover one of the most common use cases for developing web-based applications: displaying/inserting/updating/deleting data…
Scrolling through my news feed on Twitter I get flooded with new releases of npm modules and more and more blog articles about server-side rendering technologies for the latest Single Page Application frameworks like Angular, React. The following tweet summarized my current feelings: As I personally really like React and used it in the past for several projects,…