September 02, 2017
Spring - Initializing a Spring Bean
In Spring, it's often necessary to run custom code during a bean's initialization—for example, to validate mandatory properties or establish initial connections. Spring offers several mechanisms to initialize beans after they’ve been injected with their properties. Read More
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Phee Jay
August 04, 2017
Groovy - Setting Up Sublime Text to Run Groovy Scripts
Groovy is a powerful scripting language that builds on Java, making it easier to write concise and expressive scripts. Sublime Text, a highly customizable text editor, can be configured to execute Groovy scripts, streamlining your workflow. This guide will walk you through the steps to set up Sublime Text to run Groovy scripts on your system. Read More
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Phee Jay
August 03, 2017
Groovy - How to Read Files in Groovy?
This article shows various ways of reading a text file in groovy. Read More
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Phee Jay
August 01, 2017
JS - How to Create Web Notifications
Web Notifications provide ways for websites to display notifications to users e.g. alerting the user about a business event or success/failure of an asynchronous operation. Read More
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Phee Jay
July 12, 2017
Spring - Lookup Method or Method Injection
Most common injection mechanisms used in Spring are Constructor and Property injections. In both the mechanisms, the injection happens only once during the initialization of the Bean. They also require a concrete method defined, e.g., a constructor method for constructor injections and a setter method for property injection. Read More
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Phee Jay
April 28, 2017
Spring - How to Create Custom Namespaces and Handlers in Spring
Custom namespaces in spring are a way to replace the complex bean definitions with a more user-friendly configuration. Spring itself provides several namespaces out of the box. e.g. Read More
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Phee Jay
April 13, 2017
Spring - Localization with Spring
Localization enables applications to cater to users of different locations and languages. Spring, as usual, has support for this aspect as well. Before jumping into what Spring has to offer, let's explore what we get from Java itself. Read More
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Phee Jay
March 29, 2017
Spring Boot - How to Create a Deployable War
Spring boot , by default, enables you to create standalone applications through simple, minimal configurations. And due to its self-contained nature, it naturally enables building microservices. Spring starters are poms (if using maven) that Read More
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Phee Jay
March 09, 2017
Spring Cache - Part 5 - CacheEvict
In the Spring Cache series so far ( Part1 , Part2 , Part3 , Part4 ), we have seen examples where the data is getting added to the cache through the use of @Cacheable and @CachePut . But, what about removing data from cache? Consider a call to delete the record from Service or DB, in which case, we would also want to delete that record from the cache. Read More
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Phee Jay
March 04, 2017
Java - Deep Copy Java Objects through Serialization
When it comes to deep copy or cloning an object, the first thing that comes to mind is to override the clone() method and set each field manually. This can be pretty cumbersome to implement for complex objects or if you have to do this for a lot of them. Read More
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Phee Jay
March 02, 2017
Spring Cache - Part 4 - CachePut
There are scenarios, unlike retrievals, where you do not want to skip the execution of the method e.g. insert/update of a record. Such methods should not be marked as Cacheable. But, you might still want to cache the result of these methods, in order to avoid unnecessary retrievals in future calls. Read More
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Phee Jay
March 01, 2017
Spring Cache - Part 3 - Conditional Cache
In this part of the tutorial, we will see how data can be cached conditionally. (If you haven't checked the previous parts, please visit Part 1 and Part 2 . They contain sample code that the examples below refer) Read More
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Phee Jay
February 25, 2017
Spring Cache - Part 2 - Cache Keys
In part 1 of the post, we looked at how data can be cached through simple configuration. In this part, we are going to explore the cache keys. Read More
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Phee Jay
February 23, 2017
Spring Cache - Part 1 - Introduction
Caching is an extremely important aspect of applications that care about lower latencies. There are a multitude of rules one has to adhere to while setting up a cache, in order to optimize the performance; but not overdo it. We will not get into those details in this post. Our focus would be on what Spring provides to enable caching in your applications. Read More
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Phee Jay
February 17, 2017
Jackson - JSON Property Name Customization in Jackson using PropertyNamingStrategy
Jackson is one of the most popular java libraries for serialization/deserialization of POJOs to/from JSON. By default, Jackson derives the JSON element names from the getter/setter method names of the POJO. e.g. getActorName() is translated to actorName in the resulting JSON. Read More
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Phee Jay
February 15, 2017
Java - How to Timeout JDBC Queries
Learn how to set timeouts for JDBC queries to prevent indefinite blocking. This guide covers configuring timeouts on individual statements, applying global timeouts at the driver level, and setting timeouts using Spring's JdbcTemplate. Read More
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Phee Jay
February 12, 2017
Tarlog - Eclipse Plugin for Windows
Tarlog is a plugin for eclipse that provides some useful features if you are working on a Windows machine. It allows you to Copy Path, Open Shell or Open Explorer on the selected file or folder in the project. It also allows changing the font of the editor through Ctrl++ and Ctrl-- keys. Read More
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Phee Jay
February 09, 2017
Spring - Overriding Spring Beans with Aliases
This blog post discusses how to override Spring beans using aliases and the benefits of managing dependencies in Spring applications. Read More
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Phee Jay