I’ve recently reached out for Cobertura to add test coverage reporting to one of my project. One of the first challenges I’ve face was integrating the plugin into a project powered by Gradle. Turns out there is a Gradle version of the plugin available (credit: Steve Saliman). https://gist.github.com/zezutom/8526e229a4ab01d7a69f The problem I was unable to Read more…
A WordCount app is arguably the most commonly used example of the MapReduce principle – see Hadoop or Spark tutorials. I wanted to do a similar thing in plain old Java as “a one-liner” (kind of). My objective was to explore the power and expressiveness of the Streaming API and Lambda expressions. Here is what Read more…
This post concludes the example from the previous article. Today, we take a closer look at the client-side, namely the use of tags and how to perform an efficient input validation. The whole example can be downloaded from github. At this point we have all the configuration in place and Read more…
In this post we take a closer look at the basics of a popular MVC framework Apache Struts. Today, we explore the server-side and discuss the concept of actions and validation. As usual, an example app is provided and you are more than welcome to code along. Update: Please note Read more…
In the previous post we experimented with JavaServer Pages and created a simple web app. Lazy coders as we are can’t help, but automate as much as possible in order to avoid tedious manual steps. HtmlUnit is very well suited to work in tandem with JSP technology. I value the Read more…
In this very first post of the JEE Series we create a simple web app based on JSP and JavaBeans. Bring an IDE of your choice and give it a swing. Let’s generate a new project using the maven web archetype: [bash] mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=simple-web-jsp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -Dpackage=com.example -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT [/bash] Read more…