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Testing Spring Boot Rest APIs with Rest-Assured

Jonny Hackett API Development, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, REST, Spring, Spring Boot, Testing Leave a Comment

Creating RESTful APIs with Spring Boot is a straightforward process, making it a popular choice for a variety of applications, from UI to batch processing. The same API created can be used anywhere, whether itโ€™s called from a UI application or batch applications. However, testing these APIs to ensure they work correctly can be challenging. In this article, I’ll introduce …

Introduction to Web Apps with Next.js

Introduction to Web Apps with Next.js

Bob Palmer Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, React 1 Comment

In this post, I am going to demonstrate how to set up a simple Next.js web application. Next.js is a heavily opinionated JavaScript framework, in that it has a lot of conventions and recommended tools built into its design.

We’ll use Next.js version 14.2.2 to set up the groundwork for a simple web application. By “web application,” I mean an application that is designed primarily to collect input from a user in a web browser and return some output generated from that input.

Optimizing Output File Testing in Spring Batch

Optimizing Output File Testing in Spring Batch

Jonny Hackett Articles, Java, Spring, Spring Batch, Testing Leave a Comment

Attention: This article was published over 2 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Itโ€™s quite common to build Spring Batch jobs in which the output is a file for distribution to another team, or to another business. …

Spring Batch Job Flow

Spring Batch Job Flow Using a JobExecutionDecider

Jonny Hackett Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, Spring, Spring Batch, Tutorial 2 Comments

In this tutorial for Spring Batch, we’re going to take a look at Programmatic Flow decisions in a Spring Batch job using Spring’s JobExecutionDecider. Spring Batch is a pretty powerful framework and this is another useful tool to have in your Spring Batch toolbox.

To demonstrate, I’ll use a scenario that came up recently while working on my clientโ€™s project. After explaining the situation and my goals, Iโ€™ll jump into a detailed, step-by-step guide. Letโ€™s get started!

Using Google Maps with FLutter

Using Google Maps with Flutter

James Fielder Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Flutter, Mobile, Tutorial Leave a Comment

Flutter has a lot of amazing plugins that make it easy to develop cross-platform apps. Recently, I had the opportunity to work with a theater chain that made use of a map view to show nearby theaters. We used Flutter in conjunction with Google Maps.

In this blog post, we will take a look at the Google Maps Flutter plugin, which allows you to add an interactive map to your iOS or Android app and customize it in many different ways!