Adapting and Learning

I've been updating some training materials recently, and thinking about better ways of teaching and talking about JPA. One of the things...

After spending some time doing sustained engineering (a.k.a. maintaining legacy code), I ventured to reduce repetitive code in Spring MVC @C...

I’ve always wanted to try to see if I could use Rails’ jQuery UJS in a Spring Boot project. The UJS in jquery-ujs stands for unobtrusive Ja...

Here's a brief post. I'm not sure how to start it. It's one of those "why didn't I think of that" moments while re...

In this post, I’d like to share a lesson learned by one of the teams at O&B. They were using Spring Boot with Spring Security. By defa...

I was recently surprised by how one code base had public default constructors (i.e. zero-arguments constructors) in all their domain entiti...

If you have been programming in Java long enough, chances are you needed to generate reports for business users. In my case, I've seen s...

I was inspired by Carl Papa's use of aspects with the Spring Framework to determine the DataSource to use (either read-write or read-on...

A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to participate in a few PoCs (proof-of-concepts) that used Apache Spark. There, I got the chance to...

In one design patterns class, I had an interesting discussion about modelling domain logic. Specifically, it was about isolating the domain ...

As I was discussing the PoEAA patterns used to model domain logic (i.e. transaction script, table module, domain model), I noticed that peo...