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On sourcecode formatting

04-Jul-16

Without any comment on which style is right, you can use GNU util expand / unexpand to replace tabs with spaces and vice versa. For example, you can use the following command to replace all tabs with spaces and the recommended 8 spaces width in all Java files through find . -name ‘*.java’ ! -type […]

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Adding Spring-Integration to a Boot application

29-Jun-16

This weeks post has some anecdotally value for me. 9 years ago I wrote a horrible tutorial about threads, which I really liked back then. In the meantime I often thought I should delete the post and only kept it around to prove some improvements on my side 😉 Anyway, the code in that tutorial […]

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NetBeans IDE plugin supporting programming with Spring Boot

19-Jun-16

There are several plugins out there for supporting Spring development in NetBeans, but the NB-SpringBoot by Alessandro Falappa seems to be the most feature complete. At the moment installation must be done via manual download from here but that should be fixed soon. You’ll get a really nice Spring property support: Great integration with start.spring.io: […]

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On dependency injection

13-Jun-16

Today is one of those days where I either react to short tempered or don’t get my point across: Did attribute injection for years? Try to change to constructor based injection and have the circular dependencies slapped into your face… — Michael Simons (@rotnroll666) June 13, 2016 This is what I’m experiencing those days, with […]

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