I’ve been lagging behind with what Java 8 features exercising concerns, so in this post I will briefly present my initial experience with lambdas and streams.

AngularJs is often seen as a viable solution for building full scale single page web applications. Although that is a good use case for Angular, in this post we will explore how the framework can also be used to incrementally add functionality to any web page in general, in some cases with little to no Javascript needed (example).

Introduction

JPA translates entity state transitions to database DML statements. Because it’s common to operate on entity graphs, JPA allows us to propagate entity state changes from Parents to Child entities.

This behavior is configured through the CascadeType mappings.

More Agile Testing

A few weeks ago on one of my TestTalks podcasts, I interviewed Janet Gregory, co-author of some of the most popular books on Agile Testing:

• Agile Testing; A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
• More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the whole team

Janet shared some of her tips and tricks on how teams can succeed with all their Agile testing efforts.

The three points from the interview that I want to focus on in this post are:

• The Agile Mindset
• The Agile Testing Quadrants
• The Dangers of putting off automation

In my previous blog post, Quick way to check if the REST API is alive – GET details from Manifest file, I showed how to develop a REST resource to easy check if the developed REST API is reachable. In this post I will present how you can secure this resource with Spring Security and Basic authentication – “In the context of an HTTP transaction, basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user agent to provide a user name and password when making a request.”

The secured REST resources introduced here are part of bigger project, presented extensively in the Tutorial – REST API design and implementation in Java with Jersey and Spring