The second part of my Spring Batch tutorial described how you can get the required dependencies with Maven. However, Gradle has got a lot of traction during the last few years, and the odds are that you might want to use it instead of Maven. That is why I wanted to write a blog post […] Read more
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The first part of my Spring Batch tutorial explained why you should use Spring Batch instead of writing your own batch jobs and identified the basic building blocks of a Spring Batch job. Before you can move on and see Spring Batch in action, you have to get the required dependencies. After you have read […] Read more
The previous part of this tutorial described the structure of a Spock specification and helped us to write our first specification. Although it is important to understand the basics, our specifications are not very useful because we don't know how we can describe the expected behavior of the system under specification. This blog post fixes […] Read more
Most enterprise applications rely heavily on batch jobs. They run during the night and do all the time consuming tasks that cannot be done during business hours. These tasks are often critical to the business and errors can cause serious damage (i.e. cost a lot of money). That's why it is important to write robust […] Read more
When we are writing unit tests with Spock Framework, we have to create so called specifications that describe the features of our application. This blog post provides an introduction to Spock specifications, and will help us to create our first specification and understand its structure. Let's start by creating our first Spock specification. Additional Reading: […] Read more
When we are writing a web application, we often face a requirement which states that our application must provide reporting to its users. Typically the users of our application want to see these reports on the user interface and have the possibility to export them as Excel and/or PDF documents. The problem is that creating […] Read more