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Spring 4.1 / AspectJ Progress
My coworker discovered that the new version of AspectJ already has the flags built in to turn off the annotation processing. If we can do that we can continue using the Maven Processor Plugin to generate the Hibernate Metamodel data and not have to abandon this. The problem at this point is the AspectJ Maven…
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SpringOne2GX 2014 Java8 Language Capabilities
I was fortunate enough to attend SpringOne this year and I attended a talk by Venkat Subramaniam on Java 8. I have to say before attending this talk I have always been sort of meh on the functional features brought into the language, but this really got me excited about them. This is the first…
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Maven Compiler Plugins, AspectJ, and the Hibernate Metamodel generator
For a while now I have been avoiding upgrading the maven java compiler plugin. We are running 2.5.1 at work. The problem is, in the 3.x version, they seemed to have rewritten it, and it doesn’t want to play nice with the maven-processor-plugin that we used to run the hibernate meta model generator. So far…
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G1GC String Deduplication of a simple Spring Boot Webapp
I was messing around with some of the settings in the Java 8 VM. I have been playing around with Spring Boot lately. So I have a minimal webapp in Spring boot, that has a couple of entities, and services and controllers. I have it configured to run as a standalone jar with an embedded…
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The road to Spring Framework 4.1
Earlier this year Spring Framework 4.1 was released. I was excited to try out the new features in our project at work and having previously upgraded us from Spring 3.1 to Spring 3.2 and from Spring 3.2 to Spring 4.0 I was expecting this to be another routine Spring update, but alas that was not…