Monthly Archives: September 2007

Google Collection Library

Posted on September 30, 2007 by peter

Recently the Google Collections Library came to my attention. The Google Collections Library is a suite of new collections and collection-related goodness for Java 5.0, brought to you by Google. Since I’m a frequent user of apaches’ commons-collections library I … Continue reading →

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Grails and tests – Part I: Getting started with TDD

Posted on September 26, 2007 by peter

Writing tests for a Grails applications is really simple. In Groovy code actually compiles when non-existing methods of objects are referenced (as opposed to Java) which makes it possible exercise TDD (test driven development). Grails supports two types of tests … Continue reading →

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BOTG 2007

Posted on September 26, 2007 by peter

Yesterday I presented at the Battle of the Geeks 2007 organized by my employer. 4 presentations where given and people in the audience where asked to rate each presentation using special cards. (I translated this post to Dutch for the … Continue reading →

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Package level annotations

Posted on September 25, 2007 by peter

While setting up JAXB2 for converting object graphs to XML I came across a not-so-nice part of the annotations specification. While looking for a way to define a package level annotation (never needed to do this before) I found the … Continue reading →

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Groovy 1.1 beta 3: method missing

Posted on September 21, 2007 by peter

Groovy 1.1. beta 3 was announced a couple of days ago and includes some interesting additions to the groovy language, like a real method missing. Grails’ lead developer Graeme Rocher has a simple example of the way it works in … Continue reading →

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Quick take at Wicket Web Beans

Posted on September 13, 2007 by peter

Recently a really interesting wicket extension emerged: Wicket Web Beans (WWB). Wicket Web Beans (WWB) is an Apache Wicket component toolkit for displaying and editing POJOs that conform to the JavaBeans specification. Web pages are automatically generated based on bean … Continue reading →

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Presentation: Introduction to Spring MVC

Posted on September 10, 2007 by peter

I was asked to do a series of presentations and workshops regarding Spring MVC at the HvA. Last Friday I started off with a presentation and some live coding examples. Although the students didn’t have much experience with Spring or … Continue reading →

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