Out of the box, Spring Boot is very easy to use with the H2 Database. If the H2 database is found on your classpath, Spring Boot will automatically set up an in-memory H2 database for your use. But what if you want to use MySQL? Naturally, Spring Boot has support for MySQL and a number […]Continue reading
Unit tests should be small tests (atomic), lightweight, and fast. However, an object under test might have dependencies on other objects. It might need to interact with a database, communicate with a mail server, or talk to a web service or a message queue. All these services might not be available during unit testing. Even […]Continue reading
In this post, I’m going to walk you through using Spring Boot to set up a Hello World example using Spring Integration and ActiveMQ. We’ll configure Spring Integration to listen on an ActiveMQ queue. For fun, I’ll use Spock to place a message on the queue, and we can watch Spring Integration receive the JMS […]Continue reading
I remember in the late 90s / early 2000 all the buzz in programming was about XML. All the ‘experts’ said you had to be using XML for data exchange. XML does have many benefits. But often when programming today, XML is looked as ‘old school’ or too restrictive. XML sure can be finicky to […]Continue reading
I was recently asked on my Facebook page, “How do I become a Java Web Developer?” There is really no simple answer for this question. There are many facets to becoming a Java web developer. I’ve encountered Java developers who were good front end developers, or good backend developers. By ‘front end’, I mean more of […]Continue reading
