Java
Robust Java Object Mapping With Minimal Testing Overhead Using reMap
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Tom Hombergs
- October 1, 2017
Object mapping is a necessary and often unloved evil in software development projects. To communicate between layers of your application, you have to create and test mappers between a multitude of types, which can be a very cumbersome task, depending on the mapper library that is used.
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A Guide to Formatting Code Snippets in Javadoc
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Tom Hombergs
- August 14, 2017
Sometimes you want to add code snippets to our Javadoc comments, especially when developing an API of some kind. But how do you mark the code snippet so that it will be rendered correctly in the final Javadoc HTML, especially when special characters like '<', '>' and '@' are involved?
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Tool-based Database Refactoring: Flyway vs. Liquibase
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Tom Hombergs
- May 14, 2017
In a previous blog post I discussed the term “database refactoring” and some concepts that allow database refactoring to be supported by tools with the result of having a database schema that is versioned just like your software is.
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Digital Signature in Java
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Artur Kuksin
- April 14, 2017
Often you come across the requirement to validate integrity and authenticity of data that was sent digitally. Digital signatures are the solution to this requirement.
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A Random Pitfall
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Rudi Klassen
- February 16, 2017
From time to time we need a randomly generated Number in Java. In this case we are normally using java.util.Random which provides a stream of pseudo generated Numbers.
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Getting the current Subversion Revision Number in Gradle
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Tom Hombergs
- November 26, 2016
A common use case for build tools like Ant, Maven or Gradle is to retrieve the current revision number of the project sources in the Version Control System (VCS), in many cases Subversion (SVN).
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