by Horatiu Dan Context In my opinion, the purpose of all software applications that have been created so far, are being and will be developed should primarily be to make humans’ day to day activities easier to fulfill. Humans are the most valuable creations and software applications are great tools that at least could be […]
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by Horatiu Dan Context A while ago, I decided to opt for Swagger (UI) as a solution for documenting REST APIs. The APIs are built using Spring Framework (not Spring Boot), more exactly, Spring MVC. For the Swagger integration, I used the Springfox Swagger suite of java libraries. The reasons of this integration are: have […]
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Respectful REST APIs – ‘Sunset’ and ‘Deprecation’ HTTP Headers The slides: The sample project – https://github.com/horatiucd/argus. It’s been a pleasure, thank you!...
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by Horatiu Dan While in development mode, it makes sense for the working environment to signal errors and provide as many insightful details as possible so that they are easily addressed and documented. In production, on the other hand, it is a good practice to limit the details provided to the user in case of […]
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by Horatiu Dan 1. Introduction According to Richardson Maturity Model [Reference 1], a Level 3 REST architecture introduces the discoverability through hypermedia controls in addition to resources and HTTP verbs, thus making the communication between the involved actors more self-documenting. Hypermedia enriches the interaction from various perspectives, decreasing the coupling between parties and also allowing […]
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by Horatiu Dan Abstract The purpose of this post is to provide a brief and straightforward hands-on introduction to Git, first basic and mostly used commands. It will the following: How to create a new Git repository The basic operations when working with the local repository – check status, add, commint, change, revert How to […]
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by Horatiu Dan Introduction As a product is being developed and maintained its test suite is enriched as features and functionalities are added and enhanced. Ideally, development teams should aim having a lot of quick unit tests that are run whenever modifications in the code are made. It is great if these are written before […]
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by Razvan Popian The result set fetch size is an important setting for processing result sets in a memory efficient way in JDBC. setFetchSize() method’s javadoc of java.sql.Statement class specifies the behavior of the fetch size: “Gives the JDBC driver a hint as to the number of rows that should be fetched from the database […]
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Once a year, the main project I am working at gets upgraded to use newer versions of its dependencies. Nothing special, just keeping up with the open source industry. Briefly, the project is a Java web application, build upon the Spring Framework. This post will describe how we “managed” to increase the version of Ehcache […]
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