Since March 2015 Stefan and i are building the EuregJUG Maas-Rhine, a cross-border, english-language Java User Group, located in Aachen. I’ve been blogging about regularly since then (see all posts here) and it’s developing quite well so far. We had 4 well visited talks, nice meetings in between and good conversations. We noticed some problems, […]
This post has been featured on This Week in Spring – October 13, 2015. Stéphane Nicoll, working at Pivotal, using Spring since early as 2007 and creating Spring Boot with others since 2014 came over from Liege for the third talk at Aachens EuregJUG this year. Stéphane had only two slides with him, the rest […]
This is not about bean testing is effective, right or whatever. Just assume you want your Java beans tested, for example to achieve full code coverage. There are some solutions out there and I used to use the BeanLikeTester but the library and i have different opinions about the hashCode/equals contract so i decided to […]
Lately i’ve been evaluating jOOQ as a core database tool for ENERKO Informatik. Though i’ve got quite some experience (and good experience!) with Hibernate and Spring Data JPA, we have some projects around that are quite old but not outdated. They are in need for an UI/UX and some architectural make over, but the data […]
Geertjan Wielenga, who was inherited by Oracle from Sun and is now working as a product manager inside the NetBeans team, gave us the pleasure visiting the Euregio for the second talk at the EuregJUG that went by the title “Free Open Source Tools for Maven, HTML5, IoT and Java EE”. We had 28 registered […]