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A few days ago I had to write a controller method that is used to upload files to a Spring web application. This is an easy task, but I had another requirement that turned out to be a problem: every file has an expiration date that must be given when the file is uploaded. What […] Read More about Spring From the Trenches: Parsing Date and Time Information From a Request Parameter

If you read my blog on a regular basis, you have probably noticed that I have written many tutorials about automated testing. The problem is that some of these tutorials are quite old and outdated, and that is why I am going to update them. Here's where you come in. Before I can help you […] Read More about What Prevents You From Writing Automated Tests?

The Spock Framework is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications. Its website make a somewhat bold claim: What makes it stand out from the crowd is its beautiful and highly expressive specification language. Before we can verify if this claim is true, we have to create an example project that we […] Read More about Writing Unit Tests With Spock Framework: Creating a Gradle Project

I think that the best part of writing a blog is to get comments from my readers. Because I have learned a lot from my readers, I want to “reward” the best comments, help you to learn new things, and (hopefully) encourage people to leave more comments. The rules are simple: I select X best […] Read More about The Best Comments of August 2015

The Spock Framework is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications. Its website make a somewhat bold claim: What makes it stand out from the crowd is its beautiful and highly expressive specification language. Before we can verify if this claim is true, we have to create an example project that we […] Read More about Writing Unit Tests With Spock Framework: Creating a Maven Project

The traditional way to run a Spring web application on a remote server is to package it into a war file and deploy that file into a servlet container. Although this method has served us well in the past, managing multiple servlet containers has always been a bit cumbersome. Spring Boot provides one solution to […] Read More about Getting Started With Gradle: Creating a Spring Boot Web Application Project