Series Previous Post, Next Post In the previous post (num 6) we discovered how we can unit test our JPA2 domain model, using Arquillian and Wildfly 8.1 In the previous post we made a simple configuration decision, we used the internal H2 database that is bundled with Wildfly 8.1 and the already configured Datasource …

This post is mostly targeted to Java developers working on the financial sector, especially with systems that need to do payments and specifically using the IBAN/BIC standard. So today I was browsing through some legacy code, that was performing some sort of validations on String representations of IBAN accounts. I …

Series Previous Post, Next Post In the previous post (part 5), we discovered how we can unit test using Arquillian, our EJB services, deploying them in a real instance of Wildfly8.1 application server. Extending the previous example we will add some more configuration and code, so that we can add unit tests that …

Series Previous Post, Next Post This is the first extra post, based on the maven JavaEE7 demo project I am building on this series of blog posts. We have already defined a solid structure and some modules. One very common case in an application like this, is to use Arquillian (+ JUnit), a god sent framework, that …

it's been almost 2 weeks that I have completely switched over to IntelliJ as my main Java IDE at home and at work. So far so good, here are my initial findings. Migration: I took me a couple of hours to migrated my projects over. Eventually if your project is already Mavenized, things are simple, no risk involved. …

We are resuming for the 4th part, our simple project currently has a web maven module (a war) an ejb module (ejb) holding our stateless session beans (EJB 3.1) and a second (ejb) module holding our entity beans (JPA2) but we are still missing the one to package them all, archive, which will be of ear_ type (aka …

Λοιπόν, να πω οτι τα φαινόμενα που θα περιγράψω παρακάτω δεν είναι αρνητικό προνόμιο μόνο της ελληνικής αγοράς και των Ελλήνων developer (εμείς είμαστε αυτοί), αλλά παγκόσμιο. Παρόλα αυτά επειδή θα γράψω στα Ελληνικά θα το ζωγραφίσω με τη δική μας κατάσταση. Εσύ συνάδελφε που τυχαίνει να με διαβάσεις, πες μου πόσες …

Series Previous Post, Next Post We are resuming for the third part, we already have a parent pom and we have already defined the pom for our war module. In our original setup we have defined that our application is going to include a services jar, in the form of an ejb jar. This where our Enterprise Java Beans are …

I am a regular Eclipse user, for almost 10 years now, it is not bad but in these recent years I feel like, I code towards a tool that is insisting on doing it's thing, maintaining it's state, invoking and running stuff that I can not control, on a daily basis. I have been spending more and more time trying to find, …

I can remember this constant argument of many developers advocating other platforms in the past. Yes you may use Java which is generally ok, but even if you develop an app using your frameworks, nobody is offering hosting for your application servers, there are simply not a lot JVMs in the cloud that you could easily …