Java Web Weekly, Issue 137

At the very beginning of last year, I decided to track my reading habits and share the best stuff here, on Baeldung. Haven’t missed a review since.

Here we go…

1. Spring and Java

>> Updated Spring 5.0 Roadmap and Reactive Story Presented at SpringOne [infoq.com]

A quick forward looking writeup discussing the plans for the next Spring releases and the general direction of the platform.

>> Impact of Java EE 8 Hiatus on Tomcat 9 Highlighted at SpringOne [infoq.com]

Servlet 4.0 can’t get here soon enough, although from the looks of it, the specification is still a long ways off – and that of course has an impact on anything and everything downstream.

>> Fluent API entity building with JPA and Hibernate [vladmihalcea.com]

Some cool exploration of what a fluent API might look like for building JPA/Hibernate entities.

>> The DISTINCT pass-through Hibernate Query Hint [in.relation.to]

A cool, detailed writeup about improving the way Hibernate handles the unnecessary passing of DISTINCT to the generated query.

>> How to get query results as a Stream with Hibernate 5.2 [thoughts-on-java.org]

Nice – streams in the Hibernate APIs, starting with 5.2.

Also worth reading:

• >> Performance cost of reflection [blog.frankel.ch]

• >> Hibernate Tips: How to downcast entities in JPQL queries [thoughts-on-java.org]

• >> Guide to time and date in Java [nurkiewicz.com]

• >> No downtime deployment using “Yet another” Cloud Foundry Gradle plugin [java-allandsundry.com]

• >> How to add an attribute to javax.json.JsonObject [adam-bien.com]

• >> Hibernate OGM basics with MongoDB [kode12.com]

• >> Spring Cloud Series – Integration Testing using Spring Boot, Postgres and Docker [tech.asimio.net]

• >> Using asynchrony to reduce response times in Java 8 [praveer09.github.io]

• >> Remote JMS with WildFly Swarm [eisele.net]

• >> Remembering to Reset Thread Context Class Loader [marxsoftware.com]

Webinars and presentations:

• >> Webinar Recording: What’s New in IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 [jetbrains.com]

• >> Webinar Recording: What’s New in IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 for Spring Developers [jetbrains.com]

• >> Microservices + Events + Docker = Perfect Trio [plainoldobjects.com]

Time to upgrade:

• >> Second bug-fix release for ORM 5.2 [in.relation.to]

• >> IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1.4 Update Available [jetbrains.com]

• >> Apache Commons Crypto 1.0.0 Released [apache.org]

2. Technical

>> Understanding Security by Country: SSL [shodan.io]

Interesting and damn scary data as always.

>> System Observability: How to Make Your Production Environment Great Again [takipi.com]

The observability of a system is a core aspect of going into production and it definitely needs to be considered and built in from the start.

Also worth reading:

• >> Characterization Testing [michaelfeathers.silvrback.com]

• >> Why Most Programmers Get Pagination Wrong [jooq.org]

3. Musings

>> How Do I Write Good Code? [daedtech.com]

A solid attempt to answer the question in earnest. Really.

>> Future of Serverless Architectures [martinfowler]

The wrap-up section of the huge and quite interesting deep-dive into Serverless Architectures.

Also worth reading:

• >> The Art of Delegating [katemats.com]

• >> Writing Laws Is Quite Like Programming [techblog.bozho.net]

• >> What you should and shouldn’t worry about when you complete today’s census [troyhunt.com]

• >> Logging for Continuous Integration [daedtech.com]

4. Comics

And my favorite Dilberts of the week:

>> Should I give you regular updates? Nah [dilbert.com]

>> It’s supposed to make you feel “engaged” [dilbert.com]

>> No one would pay you to feel good [dilbert.com]

5. Pick of the Week

>> I’ve never had a goal [signalvnoise.com]