All posts in 'Java'

Java 8: Grouping stuff

06-May-14

I needed a function to sum (and therefor group) the values of a map of objects to Integers. My first solution was something like As you can see, i use the collect method with a custom supplier, accumulator and combiner. The supplier prepares a new map, the accumulator takes the map and an entry and […]

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Java 8: Sort or find maximum, minimum entries in maps

05-May-14

This is cool: Map.Entry#comparingByKey and Map.Entry#comparingByValue. They both take another comparator or lambda that is used as a delegate for creating a Map.Entry comparator, that can be used to sort maps or find maximum and minimum pairs in a map by key or value like in the following example: import java.time.LocalDate; import java.util.Map; import java.util.Random; […]

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Spring Boot as a backend for AngularJS

15-Apr-14

This is the fourth Post in my series Developing a web application with Spring Boot, AngularJS and Java 8. I’m more a backend and database guy than a frontend developer, but i know how to write valid HTML and add some unobtrusive JavaScript to it, for example in my daily photo project. Daily Fratze is […]

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Messaging and Websockets with Spring 4

21-Mar-14

This is the third Post in my series Developing a web application with Spring Boot, AngularJS and Java 8. My old application had a J2ME(!) companion on my dump phone that send my location to the app, showing it on the page. This was 2009… Before my iPhone time. Planning a longer bike tour in […]

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