Integration Testing with MongoDB & Spring Data

Integration Testing is an often overlooked area in enterprise development. This is primarily due to the associated complexities in setting up the necessary infrastructure for an integration test. For applications backed by databases, it’s fairly…

STS in OS X — Where’s the sts.ini?

I’ve been using STS (SpringSource Tool Suite) on OS X Lion for sometime now, and today I realized that it’s getting a bit slow. I thought of tuning the heap size a bit to give it more memory, so I went into the installation to look for eclipse.ini, and there was none…

Eventing with Spring Framework

Spring Framework, since it’s inception, included an eventing mechanism which can be used for application-wide eventing. This eventing mechanism was developed to be used internally by Spring Framework for eventing, such as notification of context being refreshed, etc, but it…

JAX-WS: Working with .NET Web Services

If you happen to write a JAX-WS Web Services client for a service which is written using .NET Platform, you might come across the below error message when you execute wsimport command.

A class/interface with the same name “?????” is…

Getting SOA Right — Thinking Beyond ‘The Right Angles’

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There was a time when Service Oriented Architecture was a buzzword. That time is now…