Tips and Tricks

Installing PostgreSQL 9.1 to Windows 7 from the Binary Zip Distribution

Today I was helping a colleague of mine to install and configure PostgreSQL 9.1 to his laptop which was running on Windows 7. We had several problems with the one click installer and after the installation process was finished, we could not start the PostgreSQL database. Since we could not solve this problem in a […] Read more

Creating RESTful Urls with Spring MVC 3.1 Part Three: UrlRewriteFilter

This blog entry describes how you can create RESTful url addresses to your web application with Spring MVC 3.1 and UrlRewriteFilter. In other words, the url addresses of your application must fulfill following requirements: An url address must have a suffix in it (in other words, an url address most not contain a suffix like […] Read more

Creating RESTful Urls with Spring MVC 3.1 Part One: default-servlet-handler

This blog entry describes how you can create a web application which has restful url addresses by using Spring MVC 3.1 and the default-servlet-handler element of MVC XML namespace. The requirements for RESTful urls are given in following: An url address must no have suffix in it (in other words, an url address most not […] Read more

Implementing a Custom Naming Strategy With Hibernate

As all of you who are familiar with Hibernate know, not all entity annotations are mandatory. These non mandatory annotations include @Table and @Column annotations. However, even though these annotations are not required, leaving them out has never been an option for me. I simply don't like the table and column names which are generated […] Read more

Testing that All Service Methods Are Annotated with @Transactional Annotation

A common method of setting transaction boundaries in Spring Framework is to use its annotation driven transaction management and annotate service methods with @Transactional annotation. Seems pretty simple, right? Yes and no. Even though the annotation driven transaction management of Spring Framework is easy to setup and use, there are a few things which you […] Read more