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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

Introduction to the new JdbcClient in Spring Framework 6.1

Fellow software engineer Siva recently posted this useful introduction to the new JdbcClient that comes with Spring Framework 6.1 (and hence, Spring Boot 3.2.x). JdbcClient provides a fluent API for performing common database operations on top of JdbcTemplate.

Spring Boot Tip: A Simplified Way of Creating ArgumentCaptors with Mockito 5.7.0

Maciej Walkowiak recently published this tip on a simplified way of creating Mockito ArgumentCaptors with Spring Boot 3.2.x: 💡 Mockito 5.7.0 (included in Spring Boot 3.2) introduced simplified way for creating argument captors: pic.twitter.com/MEdJ3dlwum— Maciej Walkowiak 🍃 (@maciejwalkowiak) December 13, 2023

Sunday January 7th, 2024 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Spring Boot Tip: HTTP Request Logging with CommonsRequestLoggingFilter

Martin Hock recently published this tip on how to enable HTTP "request logging using CommonsRequestLoggingFilter to capture detailed information about incoming request": 🚀 Advanced Spring Tip 🚀HTTP Request Logging with CommonsRequestLoggingFilterEnable request logging using CommonsRequestLoggingFilter to capture detailed information about incoming requests. 🔥https://t.co/Sb1QyJ4GY6#SpringTip #Java— Martin Hock (@mnhocktweets) December 14, 2023

Sunday December 31st, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Hidden gems and traps that you probably didn’t think of using Event Sourcing by David Gomez @ Spring I/O 2023

Sunday December 17th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Multitenant Mystery Only Rockers in the Building by Thomas Vitale @ Spring I/O 2023

Sunday December 10th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

REST next level: Crafting domain-driven web APIs by Julien Topçu @ Spring I/O 2023

Sunday December 3rd, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applications

ArchUnit Spring Integration

ArchUnit is a tremendously useful library for enforcing Java application architecture via unit testing. Fellow software developer and consultant Roland Weisleder recently published a new library called ArchUnit Spring Integration that helps with - well - better integrating ArchUnit with Spring applications. By introducing a DSL, ArchUnit Spring Integration allows you to easily enforce constraints regarding common Spring stereotypes such as @RestController. For example, using ArchUnit Spring Integration you can make sure that methods annotated with @GetMapping (or other HTTP verb mappings, for ...

Sunday November 19th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Spring Boot & Flyway – How to Clear a Test Database Between Integration Tests

A few months ago, consultant and prolific open source contributor Maciej Walkowiak, of Spring Cloud AWS and just fame, wrote about clearing test databases between integration tests with Spring Boot and Flyway. The recipe / pattern for restoring a test database to its previous state (i.e. the state before a specific integration test has been executed) outlined in that article should come in handy to anyone working with Spring Boot. Moreover, the basic concept is generic enough to be applied to another ...

Sunday November 12th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

WireMock Spring Boot

WireMock is an API mocking tool that enables developers to simulate REST APIs during testing. In a system-under-test fashion, it allows us to remove external, potentially flaky, dependencies from our test environment to make our unit tests more focussed and more reliable. WireMock Spring Boot is a new library by consultant and prolific open source contributor Maciej Walkowiak that "drastically simplifies WireMock configuration in a Spring Boot and JUnit 5 application". Featuring a fully declarative WireMock setup and automatic Spring environment setup, ...

Sunday November 5th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Why Spring Belongs In Your Data Stream (From Edge to Multi Cloud) by Fabrizio Marini @ Spring I/O 23

Sunday October 15th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

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