Here is a list of hot keys I frequently use in Netbeans and their equivalents in IntelliJ and Eclipse. All of them are customizable, what follows are default settings. Function Netbeans IntelliJ Eclipse Debug File Ctrl + Shift + F5 Alt + Shift + F9 Alt + Shift + D Read more…
When it comes to transactions, the Spring manual suggests that marking your classes as @Transactional and enabling annotation-driven configuration is somewhat insufficient. When you keep reading it though, you pick up many interesting details but won’t get much further in terms of best practices. At the end of the day, Read more…
To be honest, the Data Transfer Object pattern is not my favourite one. I like to keep my code DRY and the idea of replicating parts of the domain model does not appeal to me. However, exposing entities directly to clients can be tricky, mostly due to their relational nature. Read more…
Would you agree that loading only as little data as needed, a.k.a lazy loading, is a good practice? You probably would. To prevent lengthy object graphs be loaded into memory Hibernate uses lazy loading by default. The downside is that sooner or later you are destined to see something like Read more…