Making Spring and Quartz Work Together Smoothly
Spring has quartz support. But as you can see it requires a lot of old-style xml mappings for each of the jobs you want to run. And it looks moreContinue reading
On DTOs
DTOs, or data-transfer objects, are commonly used. What is not со commonly-known is that they originate from DDD (Domain-driven design). There it makes a lot of sense – domain objectsContinue reading
The Most Common Mistake When Using Dependency Injection Frameworks
I’ve been answering spring and CDI questions on stackoverflow quite a lot, and what I notice as a recurring mistake (or misconception) is that people aren’t aware that they shouldContinue reading
Spring and PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED
Recently I was introduced to a project that’s already 4 months in development. After a day of coding I realized there’s something wrong with the session and transaction management. ThenContinue reading
Pretty URLs and the Trailing Slash
How should you decide when to use trailing slashes with pretty URLs? In my opinion you should never use them. Why? Because a trailing slash denotes a directory, while theContinue reading
Why is the Facebook API So Crappy?
(This isn’t going to be a rant. I’ll try to figure out why the problems with the facebook graph API exist) The other day an article got popular on dzone.Continue reading
An Idea for JPA Regarding Domain-Driven Design
JPA and domain-driven design don’t mix well. In fact, JPA “entities” are representatives of the anemic data model that Fowler warns against. I have already discussed DDD in the lightContinue reading
Careful with Storing Base64 in MySQL
The usual choice for a collation in MySQL is utf8_general_ci (or whataver_ci). ci means “case insensitive” (there are also the _cs collations). All is fine with that, but if youContinue reading
Those Evil Frameworks and Their Complexity
Frameworks like Hibernate and Spring are industry-standards. JSF, EJB and the likes are also standards and used in many applications. But there are always people that are against these frameworks.Continue reading
Some Technical Details About My Startup
Today I launched a “field trial” of my sort-of-a-startup (http://welshare.com). And here I’ll write some technical details. The stack: Java – the language and the platform I’m most familiar with.Continue reading