This is a very short example of how you can use RESTEasy to send JSON requests. For one of my pet projects, I needed to send requests to my JSON based API. I usually use Apache‘s HttpClient for simple requests. But, this time I wanted to try some of JAX-RS implementations. As for everything else in Java, the selection of …
JUnit 4 extension model is a bit scary. You have @Rule, @ClassRule, and different Runner implementations. Very often you need to use all of them at once. On top of that you will probably end up with multiple rules that you will need to chain properly. Doable, but scary for beginners. Luckily, JUnit 5 offers a much better solution to …
The Layout dialect is a dialect for Thymeleaf that allows users to build layouts and reusable templates in order to improve code reuse. It has a hierarchical approach and it uses the decorator pattern for ‘decorating’ the layout files. The Layout Dialect is a separate project and does not come with Thymeleaf. However, it is open source, available on GitHub, …
I recently needed to do a proof of concept for a web application. One of the requirements was that there had to be an easy way for collecting metrics and monitoring. Thanks to its Actuator, this requirement made Spring Boot a top choice. Not that it wasn’t already. However, the Actuator on its own is not enough. It just produces …
