iBatis 3 is alive!
I had a discussion with Jira recently, whether we could be still looking forward to iBatis 3. It has been long time since iBatis 3 Whiteboard was seriously touched and I haven’t found any other clue...
View ArticleThe secret of Groovy script refresh
The first thing one should undestand before he tries to integrate scripting support into his application / framework are class loading issues. One of the main reasons (next to the ability to easily...
View ArticleGroovy – making existing objects refreshable
In the last post I described the basic principles I found behind the scenes of GroovyScript refresh. Now imagine that you want to create your own long living Groovy instances with auto-refresh...
View ArticleWhen does your Spring @Transactional attribute apply on CgLib proxies
Testing transactional aspect of your application is not easy as we usually use Springs‘ transaction rollback on tear down testing approach. Though there are solutions to test aspect oriented logic it’s...
View ArticleHow to add your own dictionary to IntelliJ Idea Spellchecker
Spellchecking provided by IntelliJ Idea is very handy for those who are not confident in written English (such as me for example ). But for non-English speaking developers it’s common to use (at least)...
View ArticleTwitter like content auto load on scroll into view
I guess everyone of you already know content loading mechanism used on the Twitter site. When you scroll down at the bottom of current page another content is loaded immediatelly without you clicking...
View ArticleCombining custom annotations for securing methods with Spring Security
Spring security is really powerful library in its current version and I like it much. You can secure your application on method level several years now (this feature was introduced by Spring Security 2...
View ArticleHow do YOU test access control of your application?
Many of complex applications put on top of their complexity access control logic for securing data and to limit access to certain functions. No matter if you have fully configurable ACL settings based...
View ArticleUbuntu 13.04 and IntelliJ Idea shortcut binding
I had a conversation about IntelliJ Idea shortcut bindings conflicting with default shortcuts of Ubuntu/Unity OS. Well, it’s a real problem, your muscle memory can be a tough beast. You can re-lean a...
View ArticleRecreate MySQL views without definer, one-liner solution (Linux)
Rather cryptic headline describes a pain many of us have to go through when restoring MySQL database backup from different machine. If you have ever done this on database with DB views – you’d probably...
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