As we might remember from the first part of this tutorial, jOOQ states that jOOQ generates Java code from your database and lets you build typesafe SQL queries through its fluent API. The first part of this tutorial describes how we can configure the application context of a Spring powered application which uses jOOQ, but […] Read more
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I have had my share of performance problems caused by ORMs. Although I have to admit that most of these problems were really caused by yours truly, I have started to think that using ORMs in read-only operations is not worth it. I started to look for alternative ways to implement these operations. That is […] Read more
Let's assume that we have implemented a Spring powered application, and secured it by using the method security expressions of Spring Security. Our next task is to implement a scheduled job which uses the secured methods. To be more specific, we have to implement a scheduled job which obtains a message from our service class […] Read more
Spring Social 1.0 has a spring-social-test module which provides support for testing Connect implementations and API bindings. This module was removed from Spring Social 1.1.0, and it was replaced with the Spring MVC Test framework. The problem is that there is practically no information about writing unit tests for an application which uses Spring Social […] Read more
Assertions are an essential part of our unit tests. And yet, it so easy to neglect them. That is a shame because if we overlook the importance of assertions, the assert section of our tests becomes long and messy. Sadly, most tests which I have seen (and written) suffer from this problem. This blog post […] Read more
The first part of this tutorial described how we can configure Spring Social 1.1.0 and Spring Security 3.2.0 but it left two very important questions unanswered. These questions are: How can a user create a new user account? How can a user log in? It is time to get our hands dirty and answer to […] Read more