MByHave 1.0 Beta

The MByHave 1.0 Beta version has been released today. The new version has a couple of improvements. You can read about these improvements in the article.

Improvement

• Multi-pattern step definitions
• Step definition priority
• ReturnValue parameter
• Container parameter

Download

• Maven repository - is not working at the moment
• GitHub

Weekly coffee -14th bean

As every Friday, yesterday morning the regular Moresby Coffee Weekly Bean took place at Canary Wharf. As usual we were talking about the IT world, news, experience, technologies.

Weekly gadgets

• Sleeptime application needs improvement, because it wakes me up when I'm in deep sleep.
• brewPi - open source beer brewing tool :-)
• Tears of Steel ‐ open movie ‐ built with open source applications.

Weekly news

• letters from Apple
• • Sorry for the maps - very strange
  • The camera works well, You should hold it to right direction. - better :-)
• Nokia is selling its headquarter
• what's the future of Nokia and Windows Mobile 8
• OpenWebOS from HP. What is this? Why is HP sponsoring this stuff?

Weekly topic

MVC patter - what is it about?

Wiki

• MVC pattern in native applications - Swing, Android
• MVC pattern in the JavaFX Script - We should take a look at JavaFX2
• MVC patter in web applications
• conventional web applications
• support of JSP/Servlet, JSF, Spring MVC
• ajax based web applications
• problems with HTML/CSS/JavaScript combination

(a new post is being born about this topic)

Next bean

The next Weekly bean will take place on 12th of October at 7am near Canary Wharf.

Topic for the next event:

• Message based communication
• Event based programming
• JMS and ActiveMQ, OSGi events
• testing in Scala???

Weekly coffee - 12th bean

Sorry for the lack of the post but during the summer we were a little bit lazy to write the blog and we spent a little bit too much time with enjoying the summer. But now we are back and this morning the first autumn Moresby Coffee Weekly Bean took place in a Starbucks Café on Neal Street (near Covent Garden).

Weekly gadget

• Order and Chaos - MMORPG for Android/iOS
• Seagate GoFlex - I've bought one. It is a surprisingly good device. I had looked for something similar and I bought this because of its price. It supports multi users, windows network access, global access via seagateshare.com website. It has client app for Android (and I guess for iOS)
• Perzi and alternatives
• Prezi - http://prezi.com
• Sozi plugin for Inkscape - http://sozi.baierouge.fr
• JessyInk plugin for Inkscape - http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/

Weekly news

• iPhone 5
• Mark Zuckerberg: HTML5 was the bigest mistake in Facebook's life. link

Weeky topic

• Service Oriented Architecture (pros and cons)
• Spring's place in SOA
• OSGi
• WebServices
  Stateful and Stateless WebServices. What's the point of the Stateful WSs. How can be a WS real stateful with functional programming. (if everything is immutable)

Weekly code

• MByHave improvement
  Container and ReturnValue parameter types have been added to MByHave.
  Container supports a named cache what stores the containers in a map where the key is a name. A step can get a container as a parameter by the name. The parameter's name (as all other parameters') has to be in the step definition pattern when the step description is parsed, the proper Container will be picked up and passed to the step method.
  The return value cache is a LIFO cache collecting the return values from the step methods. The parameters with ReturnValue type will be provided by the MByHave from the cache passing the last return value what matches to the generic type.
  The details are coming soon in another blog post!
• MByPass plans
  MByPass will be a converter framework what automatically convert arbitrary type to an other arbitrary type if it's possible to do with the registered converters. The converters has a very simple interface: public interface Converter { T convert(F from) throws ConverterException; } MByPass will be able to automatically chain them and find the was between input and output types.

Next bean

On 28th of September 2012, 7am at Canary Wharf and we're gonna work out the rest.

Topic for the next week:

• AspectJ in details

Weekly bean - 9th - 10th - 11th

Sorry for the lack of posts in the last three weeks. The main reason is that i'm busy with learning OSGi and using it in our project and Balazs also very busy because of Google IO etc.. Anyway, on the last two weeks we kept our weekly meetings where we talked about a lots of interesting topics.

Weekly topics on the last three occasion

• Automation building tools
• Maven
• dependencies, plugins, filters, profiles
• Gradle
• features, eclipse plugin, etc.
• Graph algorithms
• NP-heavy algorithms/heuristics
• OSGi
• main concept: bundles, package visibility, services, listeners
• web app concept
• Demo
• Google IO
• Project Glass - Coool :)
• Nexus 7 - both of us have ordered it :)
• Android new features
• Google+ new features
• etc.

Next coffee

Next Friday - 13th of July - at Canary Wharf, but if the weather is good, we will go to somewhere where we can enjoy it.

MByHave in Maven repository

I have uploaded the MByHave snapshot jar-s into Maven repository. I'm testing in my projects and I will release it soon.

Maven settings

    ...
    
        Sonatype oss
        https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots
    
    ...

...

    ...
    
        org.moresbycoffee
        have
        1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
    
    ...

For further information visit the GitHub Wiki page: https://github.com/bsudy/mBy.have/wiki

How to test Spring MVC with Jetty and custom database - Part II

This is the second part of a series of articles in which I'm writing about how we test our Spring MVC RESTful web services. I'm going to show in a couple of tests how a good test environment can be configured with database and custom database generation.

• Part I is about the configuration
• Part II is about the database configuration
• Part III is about the custom database generation (comming soon)
• Part IV is about the csv based database generation (comming soon)

Weekly coffee - 8th bean

On Fridays we met in a Cafe at Canary Wharf and talked – as usually – about Java, programming and other interesting things of the IT world. This occasion was special because my wife, Barbi joined to our team - because she is a Mathematician and she was interested in the topics - , so we were three of us.

Weekly topic

• Graph algorithms - Introduction

  Balazs refreshed our knowledge about the Graphs (what I almost forgot during the years) and also demonstrated the capabilities of the JUNG library.

• Graph, Tree, Forest, DAG
• Matrix and List representations (pros and cons)
• Directed and undirected graphs, etc.
• Rank of vertex and edge
• Breadth-First Search, Depth-First Search
• Dijkstra algorithm (shotest path)
• Minimum spanning tree - Prim's algorithm
• etc.
• Jetty-Spring-Hibernate integration testing

  I talked about the How to test Spring MVC with Jetty and custom database

Next meeting:

The next meeting will be on 15th of June presumably at Canary Wharf.