Log4J 2 is a logging framework designed to address the logging requirements of enterprise applications. Its predecessor Log4J 1.x has been around for more than one and a half decade and is still one of the most widely used Java logging framework. Log4J has even been ported to the .NET world. Log4net is one of […]Continue reading
Wikipedia defines pagination as “The process of dividing a document into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages”. For a programmer, pagination is the process of dividing a large amount of content to be presented on the UI in chunks. Enterprise Web-based applications, such as search engines, forums, and e-commerce stores use pagination to […]Continue reading
If you are still using System.out to print debugging or diagnostic information in your application, it’s time to look for a more elegant and efficient solution in the form of a logging framework. Although there are lots of logging frameworks around for Java applications, Log4J is one of the most widely adopted one because of […]Continue reading
This week one of my students in my Spring Core course ran into an issue how Spring was performing dependency inject. By default, the Spring Framework will perform dependency injection by type. This generally works fine, since you often will only have one bean in the Spring context for a given type. But this is […]Continue reading
I’ve been a fan of IntelliJ for a long time. You’ll see me using IntelliJ in all my video tutorials. I started out on Eclipse. Even tried going back and using Spring Tool Suite on Eclipse. Found it unusable, and went back to IntelliJ. I’ve tried Netbeans in the past (although it’s been ages!). I […]Continue reading
One thing is for certain, the OS wars between developers is not a topic that is going away anytime soon. People can be very passionate about the OS they use. Windows has been the dominant OS for a long long time. I used to be a bing Windows user. But not anymore. Like the maid, […]Continue reading
Samy is my Hero A few months ago Tim Ferriss interviewed Samy Kamkar on his podcast. Samy’s large claim to fame is being the author of the MySpace Samy worm. This is a worm that infected over a million MySpace accounts in just 20 hours. MySpace actually shut down because of the worm. Hearing Samy’s […]Continue reading
The latest TIOBE index has Java language moving strongly into the #1 programming language for January 2016. If you’re not familiar with the TIOBE Index, it’s an index that looks at searches on the major search engines, blogs, forums, and Youtube (Did you know Youtube is now the second biggest search engine?) The “Popularity of […]Continue reading
This time last year the website Spring Framework Guru did not exist. It was just an idea I had. I was listening to Trevor Page being interviewed on a podcast with John Lee Dumas in November of 2014 when I had the idea for this site. Trevor, if you’re reading this, yes, you totally inspired me […]Continue reading
Spring Boot makes it extremely convenient for programmers to quickly develop Spring applications using an in-memory database, such as H2, HSQLDB, and Derby. These databases are lightweight, easy to use, and emulates other RDBMS with the help of JPA and Hibernate. Obviously, they don’t provide persistent storage; but they a fast way to test persistent functions […]Continue reading
