If you have an application with thousand of beans, you must do unit testing but...Spring testing is boring, belive me. A very complex Spring application usually have a lot of dependency: I had to manage over 3000 beans definitions in a production project right now. Sometimes you want only to test a bit of it, and setting up a complete Spring Context will drive you crazy. To avoid losing mind, my suggestion is to ...cheat. Let'see how.

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Web service interoperability is a nightmare. But it is easy to understand what is going on: just enable debugging! On Axis2, you can do it with the folowing java options...

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Negli ultimi 20 anni sono successe tante cose imprevedibili. Nel 1995 nasce Java. Nello stesso periodo nasce Erlang. Java inizialmente segue la strada culturale tracciata da Sun, e si configura come un linguaggio estremamente verboso, con API specifiche per la gestione della concorrenza (es keyword synchronized per gestire nativamente le zone critiche che necessitano di mutex). Inzialmente Java è per far girare applet, poi Sun presenta un chip ad hoc (picoJava) poi IBM ci mette del suo e il linguaggio si trasforma in una ottima piattaforma per lo sviluppo server side.

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Sometimes in University I found bold young guy saying something like:

I will reimplement this in machine language because is faster

I will reimplement this xyz C function by my own

My program crash, I think there is a bug in HP UNIX socket implementation

I will ge rid of this Java Garbage Collector because it is too slow. I will reimplement all the code in my C++ routine.

 

Belive me: your code is doomed. A full list of guys have already done your same code, found a million bugs and corrected it in the tool you want to replace because they are shitty slow, to your eyes.

I feel your pain because I made your same mistake. Keep reading.

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Today I took a light rail with my son, to bring him to school. That tram is 90 years old. It has been maintained for 90 years. Milan city sold some of them to San Francisco too.

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Language based on JVM are the new trend in Java World. It seems everyone dislike Oracle on these days.

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Vjdbc is a remote access for JDBC-Datasources developed more then ten years ago (last news are from 2007, with last comit from 2013.

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I am studying Apache Kafka (a "distributed streaming platform") and I stubled upon this conclusion: the "disk read fear" a lot of projects have in the past, is a fake.

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In the 1980 comments were used to reduce the "gap" between unstructured code and "rationale" behind the code.

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I think constants are evil (just joking but....I will explain why).

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