Java, XML and all that Jazz... from Canberra, Australia
After some recent Certified ScrumMaster training with AxisAgile, I’ve been really challenged to beef up my integration testing Kungfu. I’ve always found Selenium a little cumbersome from an API viewpoint, but I’ve recently discovered Selenide and have become a huge fan of (IMHO) the cleaner and more concise Selenide API.
But one recent snag I’ve hit was around downloading files in... 
It’s been a while coming, but this book is now really starting to hot up!
I’ve written over 75 pages in the last week putting together Chapter 13 (on single page webapps with AngularJS), and Chapter 17 (on Leveraging NoSQL from Grails where we cover off Redis, MongoDB and Neo4j). You won’t believe how much fun I’ve been having!
So what’s in the two new chapters?
Chapter 13:... 
I’ve been doing a ton of PrimeFaces JSF development over the last little while and that library is one stunning piece of engineering execution. That said, I’m still a JSF noob, and one thing I keep having to look up is how to invoke backend JSF beans from JavaScript using p:remoteCommand. It’s covered in the Primefaces manual, but not in the standard google-able samples AFAIK.
It even... 
I know why you’re here. You’re the *other* person on the planet that is attempting configure Glassfish 3.x to store all your JMS messages in a Microsoft SQL Server database. The good news is that this is totally doable and should be quite quick (for you !
If you were doing all this on PostgreSQL, you’d have this fantastic quickstart to get you going. Sadly for us, Postgresql is one of... 
I’ve started a monthly-ish coding quiz on my little Canberra Java Devs Fresh Bytecode Newsletter. But other people might be interested in the odd puzzle they can do in a lunchtime, so I’ll post them here under the Quiz category.
We’ll start with something simple, perhaps a quick and dirty bracket matcher?
Give a series lines containing both well formed brackets (where each opening... 
I’ve really fallen in love with eventing architectures of late. Fire and forget, and let some other decoupled class (or classes) listen in and do what makes sense to it. I love the extensibility! And the cleanliness!
I’ve been using a lot of the new EE6 Event stuff and applying these kind of ideas for fun and profit. If only there was a Grails equivalent… and there is! It’s found in... 
After several years hiatus from the raw Enterprise Java space (I’ve been doing lots of Grails coding), I’ve been wading back into some client work around native EE6 (porting a Grails app to EE6 was the reason for my onboard, but that’s the subject of a different post).
Why Guava?
On the way back into the EE landscape, I’ve been refreshing myself with what’s hip and happening... 
