Test-driven software must often drop, create and populate database tables with records before it runs a suite of unit tests. For this reason, the ability to have JPA frameworks -- such as EclipseLink ...

Please note that upgrades to an SDK should always be done in a test environment and fully tested before used in production. Download the zip file for the version of ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To help demystify the most complicated of these, let’s look at a few different JOptionPane ...

Most software applications require persistence programming of some kind—but what exactly is it, and more importantly, are we doing it right? A few years ago, my team was working on a commercial Java ...

I'd like to introduce an option to the java codegen that would generate constants rather than enums where enums are defined in swagger. The advantage to building this as a String is flexibility, ...

Although it is part of the java.util.concurrent package, the TimeUnit enum is useful in many contexts outside of concurrency. In this post, I look at how the TimeUnit enum can be used even in code ...

Besides the obvious use of Groovy to write applications, Groovy is also very useful for performing Java development related tasks such building applications, deploying applications, and ...