Verify EasyMock Behavior When Expecting Exceptions
Often when writing unit tests I use EasyMock to mock dependencies of the class under test. And many times I need to test that a certain type of exception is thrown during a test. Sometimes I need both,...
View ArticleCreating Executable JARs using the Maven Assembly Plugin
On a current project I needed to create an executable JAR that does a bunch of processing on collections of files. As with most projects, I rely on a bunch of open source tools as dependencies. Since,...
View ArticleJust How Does Spring Do Its Classpath Component Scanning Magic?
One really cool feature in Spring 2.5+ is classpath component scanning. For example, instead of manually defining and wiring up all the beans comprising your Spring-based application, you simply add a...
View ArticleGroovy Fun With ObjectRange
I ran into a situation the other day with Groovy that baffled me at first. Let's create a range from 0.0 to 10.0 and then use it to check if a certain number is contained within that range, like this:...
View ArticleValidating Domain Objects in Hibernate Part 6: Integration With Web Frameworks
This is the final (and way, way overdue) article in a series of blogs describing how you can effectively use Hibernate validators. The fifth article described how to bypass Hibernate validation in...
View ArticleUsing a Hibernate Interceptor To Set Audit Trail Properties
In almost every application I've done, the database tables have some kind of audit trail fields. Sometimes this is a separate "audit log" table where all inserts, updates, deletes, and possibly even...
View ArticleThe "N matchers expected, M recorded" Problem in EasyMock
EasyMock is a Java dynamic mocking framework that allows you to record expected behavior of mock objects, play them back, and finally verify the results. As an example, say you have an interface...
View ArticleApache Commons Collections For Dealing With Collections In Java
If you are (stuck) in Javaland, which for my main project I currently am, and you'd like a little of the closure-like goodness you get from, well, lots of other languages like Ruby, Groovy, C#, Scala,...
View ArticlePolyglot Persistence
In late 2006 Neal Ford wrote about Polyglot Programming and predicted the wave of language choice we are now seeing in the industry to use the right language for the specific job at hand. Instead of...
View ArticleGet Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Renae Bair's post on The Ranting Rubyists hits a lot of nails on the head. I will freely admit to being a developer who is interested in continually learning new technologies - perhaps even at the...
View ArticleiPhone Bootcamp Blogs
Check out my blog entries this week while I'm attending the iPhone bootcamp at Big Nerd Ranch.Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Summary
View ArticleiPhone Bootcamp Day 1
Today is the first day of the iPhone bootcamp at Big Nerd Ranch at Historic Banning Mills B&B in Whitesburg, GA. It is being taught by Joe Conway. My goal is to write a blog entry for each day of...
View ArticleiPhone Bootcamp Day 2
Today is Day 2 of the iPhone bootcamp at Big Nerd Ranch.See here for a list of each day's blog entries.LocalizationAfter a nice french toast breakfast — which my dumbass CEO Chris couldn't eat because...
View ArticleiPhone Bootcamp Day 3
Today is Day 3 of the iPhone bootcamp at Big Nerd Ranch, taught by Joe Conway.See here for a list of each day's blog entries.MediaToday we started off learning how to play audio and video files by...
View ArticleiPhone Bootcamp Day 4
Today is Day 4 of the iPhone bootcamp at Big Nerd Ranch, taught by Joe Conway. Unfortunately that means we are closer to the end than to the beginning.See here for a list of each day's blog...
View ArticleiPhone Bootcamp Day 5
Today is Day 5 — the final day — of the iPhone bootcamp at Big Nerd Ranch, taught by Joe Conway. The last day of Big Nerd Ranch bootcamps are half-days so you have breakfast, have class until lunch,...
View ArticleiPhone Bootcamp Summary
So, after having actually written a blog entry covering each day of the iPhone bootcamp at Big Nerd Ranch, I thought a more broad summary would be in order. (That, and I'm sitting in the airport...
View ArticleGroovy + Spring = Groovier Spring
If you're into Groovy and Spring, check out my two-part series on IBM developerWorks on using Groovy together with Spring's dynamic language support for potentially more flexible (and interesting)...
View ArticleMissing aop 'target' packages in Spring 3.0.0.M1 zip file
Today I was mucking around with the Spring 3.0.0.M1 source release I downloaded as a ZIP file. I wanted to simply get the sample PetClinic up and running and be able to load Spring as a project in...
View ArticleRunning VisualVM on a 32-bit Macbook Pro
If you want/need to run VisualVM on a 32-bit Macbook Pro you'll need to do a couple of things. First, download and install Soy Latte, using these instructions - this gets you a Java 6 JDK/JRE on your...
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