Category: Java

Java Testing with Spock: A good (and sometimes Groovy) guide to using this powerful testing framework – #programming #java

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Java Testing with Spock Konstantinos Kapelonis Manning, paperback   Spock, the author states, is “a comprehensive testing framework for Java (and Groovy) code that can help you automate the boring, repetitive, and manual process of testing a software application. Spock is comprehensive because it’s a union of existing testing libraries”—specifically JUnit, Mockito and JBehave. It … Continue reading Java Testing with Spock: A good (and sometimes Groovy) guide to using this powerful testing framework – #programming #java

‘Spring Boot in Action’ can help you push aside the old drudgeries of configuring Spring applications – #programming #bookreview

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Spring in Action Craig Walls Manning – paperback If you have worked with the decade-old Spring framework, you know well that it has a long history of providing configuration headaches for developers. The new Spring Boot framework, on the other hand, literally brings much-needed simplification and automation to the process of using Spring. And it … Continue reading ‘Spring Boot in Action’ can help you push aside the old drudgeries of configuring Spring applications – #programming #bookreview

Attack of the Killer Parentheses: ‘Clojure in Action, 2nd Edition’ – #bookreview

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Clojure in Action, 2nd Edition Amit Rathore and Francis Avila Manning – paperback Clojure seems to be afflicted with a measles-like outbreak of parentheses, and it generally just looks strange to many software developers. And there’s a good reason for that, as this book’s two author point out in their recently released second edition. “Clojure’s … Continue reading Attack of the Killer Parentheses: ‘Clojure in Action, 2nd Edition’ – #bookreview

Groovy in Action, Second Edition – A hefty how-to guide newly updated for Groovy 2.4 – #programming #bookreview

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Groovy in Action, Second Edition Dierik König and Paul King, with Guillaume Laforge, Hamlet D’Arcy, Cédric Champeau, Eric Pragt and Jon Skeet Manning – paperback Groovy in Action, Second Edition, is not light reading. Indeed, the printed book weighs nearly three and a half pounds and has 880 pages. But it is great reading for anyone who wants … Continue reading Groovy in Action, Second Edition – A hefty how-to guide newly updated for Groovy 2.4 – #programming #bookreview

Java 8 in Action – Ready for lambdas, streams and functional-style programming? #bookreview

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  Java 8 in Action Lambdas, streams, and functional-style programming Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Mario Fusco, Alan Mycroft (Manning – paperback)  Java 8, we were sometimes assured, would just be Java 7 with a few slick new (or past-due) features added. Actually, now that it’s here, Java 8 represents “the biggest change to Java in the 18 years since Java … Continue reading Java 8 in Action – Ready for lambdas, streams and functional-style programming? #bookreview

Scala for Java Developers – A practical guide to building apps and integrating code – #programming #bookreview

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Scala for Java Developers Build reactive, scalable applications and integrate Java code with the power of Scala Thomas Alexandre (Packt – paperback, Kindle)   The increasingly popular Scala programming language runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). And “Java and Scala stacks can be freely mixed for totally seamless integration,” Scala’s website proudly trumpets. The Scala … Continue reading Scala for Java Developers – A practical guide to building apps and integrating code – #programming #bookreview

Mule in Action, 2nd Edition – Want to be an integration developer? Here’s a good start – #bookreview

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  Mule in Action, Second Edition David Dossot, John D’Emic, Victor Romero (Manning – paperback)   An enterprise service bus (ESB) can help you link together many different types of platforms and applications–old and new–and keep them communicating and passing data between each other. “Mule,” this book’s authors note, “is a lightweight, event-driven enterprise service … Continue reading Mule in Action, 2nd Edition – Want to be an integration developer? Here’s a good start – #bookreview

Play for Java – Good intro to the Play 2 Java web framework – #programming #bookreview

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Play for Java Nicolas Leroux and Sietse de Kaper (Manning, paperback)   “There are,” co-author Nicolas Leroux writes, ” many Java web frameworks, but most of them have a key flaw: they try to hide the web behind an abstraction layer, rather than embracing it. That is the most important difference between Play and most other Java … Continue reading Play for Java – Good intro to the Play 2 Java web framework – #programming #bookreview

Gradle in Action – Had enough of Maven and Ant? Try this powerful Java build tool – #programming #bookreview

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Gradle in Action Benjamin Muschko (Manning, paperback) Apache Maven and Apache Ant are perhaps the two best-known and most widely used Java build tools. But Gradle is gaining users and aficionados ( if, indeed, there can be “fans” of software build tools). And this well-prepared new book likely will help Gradle achieve even wider acceptance … Continue reading Gradle in Action – Had enough of Maven and Ant? Try this powerful Java build tool – #programming #bookreview

Rapid Android Development – Using Processing to build apps fast – #programming #bookreview

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Rapid Android Development Build Rich, Sensor-Based Applications with Processing Daniel Sauter (Pragmatic Bookshelf – paperback) The main goal of Daniel Sauter’s nicely written new book is to help you learn “how to develop interactive, sensor-based Android apps” quickly. At first glance, you may question how “quickly” you can go through 13 chapters with a total … Continue reading Rapid Android Development – Using Processing to build apps fast – #programming #bookreview