Paul Bakker

Mixing JPA and plain JDBC transactions in Spring

While preparing a Spring course I ran into a problem with JPA transactions. I created an example JPA DAO which I wanted to test using a AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests. Extending your test classes from this class gives you convenience methods...

Published 16-04-2010 12:37 by Paulb

Filed under: Java, JPA, Spring, transactions

Open source, free Community Edition of IntelliJ

Jetbrains has open sourced IntelliJ, my favorite IDE. Besides that, they introduced a free Community Edition. The Community Edition is a stripped down version of the full product. Most of the JavaSE (and other languages such as Groovy and Scala) are available...

Published 15-10-2009 23:10 by Paulb

Filed under: Java, Intellij

Testing Grails REST services

Unit Testing in Grails is very easy. If you are not familiar with this, you should definitely check out the reference manual about it. Today however, I was writing some REST services that return XML. The controller does content negotiation and can, depending...

Published 20-08-2009 17:06 by Paulb

Filed under: Grails, Testing

JavaFX 1.2 example: Folder Visualizer

Last year I blogged about a small JavaFX project I implemented called Folder-Visualizer. The tool lets you find large files and directories to effectively clean your hard disk. The previous version of the tool was implemented with an early beta of JavaFX...

Published 17-08-2009 16:22 by Paulb

Filed under: JavaFX

VMware acquires SpringSource

Interesting news today; SpringSource is acquired by VMware. Rod Johnson will continue to lead SpringSource however. The idea behind the merge is extending the Spring stack with deep support for virtualization. There is no product overlap between the two...

Published 11-08-2009 9:41 by Paulb

Filed under: Spring, Spring Source, VMware

JavaFx Charts

One of the really cool things in the JavaFx 1.2 release are the addition of Charts. The charts look great but the documentation is far from sufficient. So I wrote down this post to help out a little. Pie chart Lets start with a pie chart. The most important...

Published 10-07-2009 16:03 by Paulb

Filed under: JavaFX, charts

JavaOne - JavaFX 1.2 released

JavaFX 1.2 is available now and I'm very impressed. First of all, I didn't expect any release before the end of this year. I was hoping for a preview/beta release here at JavaOne with new components and layout managers. Instead there is a full...

Published 04-06-2009 22:27 by Paulb

Filed under: JavaFX, JavaOne

JavaOne day one - JDK 7, JEE 6, JavaFX 1.2 and an appstore

The first general session started with some exiting news. JDK 7, JEE 6 and JavaFX 1.2 are available now. Surprising, because half of the JEE 6 specs are not final yet and JDK 7 is far from finished. Later on the day the announcement doesn't quite...

Published 03-06-2009 19:41 by Paulb

Filed under: Java, JavaFX, JEE6, JavaOne

Getting started with JEE 6 - EJB 3.1, JSF 2.0 and JAX-RS on GlassFish V3

JEE 6 is almost there. The final version is expected to be released at JavaOne this year, which is the first week of June. So this is a good moment to try out the new features. Let's first see what's new in JEE 6. After that I will show how to install...

Published 15-03-2009 17:24 by Paulb

JavaFX Christmas greeting

I made a JavaFX version of the Christmas card from my company. Basically I separated the picture into four parts, and made each part clickable. When you click, it will zoom in. Simple, but it looks ok. At this moment I can't directly post applets...

Published 21-12-2008 23:06 by Paulb

Filed under: JavaFX

Live from Devoxx - JavaRebel, zero turnaround development

Yesterday's latest talk was about zero turnaround development in Java. I mainly attended the session because I really, really hate waiting for the tedious deploy cycle after changing some code. It's one of the main reasons I believe Grails works...

Published 12-12-2008 18:00 by Paulb

Filed under: Java, Devoxx, JavaRebel

Live from Devoxx - Spring 3.0 and DM server

Ok the title is not completely true anymore. I'm back at home, so it's 'almost live' from Devoxx ;-) Yesterday was busy from early morning to early morning, so didn't really find the time to blog... Anyway, the last two Devoxx days...

Published 12-12-2008 17:22 by Paulb

Filed under: Java, Spring, Devoxx, DM server

Live from Devoxx - Keynote and Parallel programming

Keynote and Concurrent programming. The first keynote was all about JavaFX. Since it's just released last week this was probably the first big presentation of it. Because I've followed JavaFX really really closely for the past months, I didn't...

Published 10-12-2008 14:35 by Paulb

Filed under: Java, JavaFX, Devoxx, Java 7

Live from Devoxx - The next version of Flex

My morning was all about Flex. The talk was about all the new stuff coming to the Flex platform. I've seen more of Catalyst and it's just simply great. During the talk a video was shown with a demo of the designer process using Catalyst. With...

Published 09-12-2008 16:49 by Paulb

Filed under: Flex, Devoxx

Live from Devoxx - University day 1

The Devoxx conference in Antwerp is this week. I'll be posting about sessions this week as much as I can. We just finished the first university session. A university session is normally a 3 hour talk, which makes it possible to go more in depth than...

Published 08-12-2008 13:50 by Paulb

Filed under: Java, agile, Devoxx, JSF 2.0, Servlet 3.0

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