Java

The latest snippet from my Lucene examples demonstrates how to achieve a facet search using the Lucene 4.0 API and how easy it is to define multiple category paths to aggregate search results for different possible facets. In the following example we’re indexing some books as a classical example and create multiple category paths for author, publication date and category afterwards .. Lucene Dependencies We simply need two dependencies here .. lucene-core of course and in addition the lucene-facet library .. I’ve added the declarations needed for Maven and SBT here .. if you’re using Gradle or Buildr you should’t have a problem to transfer the information needed ;) ...

Often in the life of a developer there is the need to create a windows executable for a Java application that is build and packaged in a Jar file. The following short example shows how to create an executable Jar first and a windows executable containing vendor information, a nice icon and other stuff afterwards by using a combination of the Maven Shade Plugin and the launch4j Plugin for Maven. ...

Having written some e-mail handling, sending or receiving library you’d like to run some integration tests against a real mail server? Then GreenMail might help you out here .. the framework is not quite new on the market but it is really easy to setup IMAP,SMTP or POP3 services with it and it comes with some helpful libraries making your life a bit easier here. That’s why I’ve come to the idea to share some examples for setting up different server instances, creating user accounts and – at last – fetching and validating e-mails… ...

Functional programming is a trending topic these days and a lot of Java programmers are hot for the features that modern functional programming languages might offer. Waiting for Java 8 and native closure support is a nice thing but for now we’re going to take a look at several Java frameworks that are trying to implement typical structures from those functional languages where possible using the capabilities of the Java language to emulate elements like higher-order-functions, closures, options and others … ...

Creating cronjobs or scheduled service executions is made really easy in Java EE 6. Scheduled tasks may be created in a programmatic style or simply by adding some annotations to an EJB. In the following tutorial we’re creating some simple scheduled tasks and let them run on an embedded GlassFish instance using the Maven Embedded GlassFish plugin.. Java EE 6 Maven Project from Archetype First of all we’re creating a new maven-ized project using one of the appropriate jee6 Maven archetypes ...

Many programmers have suffered when trying to setup an environment to handle updates for their application without much effort. Some tried Java Web Start for this purpose and many encountered difficulties with this approach. Now there is getdown that aims to replace Java Web Start by offering a simple architecture to handle updates that is fast, realiable and the only thing you need is a normal http server. Though getdown lets us handle our updates really easy it is possible to make this process even easier with the getdown maven plugin. ...

Now that the long awaited stable version of the Arquillian framework is released I wanted to demonstrate some interesting features of this framework that really eases writing and running of integration tests for Java EE 6 applications in many different ways. In the following tutorial we are going to create some real-world examples using Enterprise JavaBeans, Contexts and Dependency Injection, the Java Persistence API and we’re finally running Drone/Selenium tests against a JEE Web Application that is using Java Server Faces. ...

The OSGi Blueprint Container specification allows us to use dependency injection in our OSGi environment, declarative import and export of OSGi services, registering lifecycle listeners and wiring dependencies into our services with a few lines of XML code. In the following tutorial we’re first building an OSGi bundle classical style and afterwards take a trip into the advantages of the Blueprint specification. Our OSGi container of choice here will be Apache Karaf a lightweight container with a lot of nice features and – of course – blueprint enabled… ...

In today’s tutorial we’re exploring the world of faceted searches like the one we’re used to see when we’re searching for an item on Amazon.com or other websites. We’re using Hibernate Search here that offers an API to perform discrete as well as range faceted searches on our persisted data. Maven Dependencies Needed For simplicity’s sake am I going to use an HSQL database for persistence, in addition the dependencies for hibernate-entitymanager and hibernate-search (of course) should be added to your pom.xml ...

Having just returned from the Atlassian Camp 2012 I just toyed around with Java and Scala and wanted to share the following snippet that demonstrates how to mix code from both languages in a Maven project using the maven-scala-plugin. Setting up the Maven Project First create a new Maven project in your IDE or by running mvn archetype:generate. In the next step, add the dependency for scala-library and the scala maven repositories to your pom.xml and hook the maven-scala-plugin to Maven’s lifecycle. My pom.xml finally looks like this one: ...