Before we will learn how to write integration tests for Spring Boot web applications, it's a good idea to take a quick look at the tools which help us to write better tests. This blog post highlights six testing tools which we should use when we are writing integration tests for Spring Boot web applications. Read More

JOOQ is a library which helps us to get in control of our SQL. It can generate code from our database and help us to build typesafe database queries by using its fluent API. The earlier parts of this tutorial have taught us how we can configure the application context of our application, generate code […] Read more

jOOQ is a library which helps us to get back in control of our SQL. It can generate code from our database and help us to build typesafe database queries by using its fluent API. The earlier parts of my jOOQ tutorial have taught us how we can configure the application context of our example […] Read more

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

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