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How to Increase Your JVM Development Productivity

Posted on Oct 22, 2017

How to Increase Your JVM Development Productivity

During development, it’s important to have fast feedback loops after code changes. Waiting for a cold restart of the application is not satisfying at all and slows down the development process. In this post, I show how we can reduce the turnaround time by using certain JVM arguments and class reloading. Besides those framework-independent means, I’ll give some tips for Vaadin and Spring Boot applications.

Testing RESTful Services in Java: Best Practices

Posted on Mar 29, 2016

Testing RESTful Services in Java: Best Practices

Testing RESTful Web Services can be cumbersome because you have to deal with low-level concerns which can make your tests verbose, hard to read and to maintain. Fortunately, there are libraries and best practices helping you to keep your integration tests concise, clean, decoupled and maintainable. This post covers those best practices.