A few days have passed since last weekend’s Software Engineering Camp and I had some time to collect thoughts and reflect. I looked up when I first heard about this event and I traced it back to end of July: Another interesting event in #Nuremberg area this autumn: Softwareengineering-Camp in Erlangen https://t.co/tZSjiSAnpC — reinhard//codes (@reinhard_codes) …
A few days ago VirtualJUG featured a very interesting talk on the upcoming new version of JUnit, namely JUnit 5. Nicolai Parlog did a great job in explaining the new features and architecture of the new version – if you haven’t seen it yet, go ahead and watch it. This weekend I’ve been getting my …
When writing Java, I’m a big fan of Lombok, a library that helps reduce boilerplate code through code-generation. I’ve written about it in the past, if you’re not familiar with it, checkout my previous posts here and here. Recently I’ve been confronted with the problem of providing defaults for generated Builder-classes generated by the @Builder …
There’s no shortage of options for Java developers when dealing with HTTP connections client-side. Java itself brings facilities to work with HTTP, but they are very low level and inconvenient as is Apache’s HttpClient. I’ve been using some more high-level implementations in the past, Spring’s RestTemplate is often a good fit, the same goes for …
