Here at Keyhole, we are very fond of Spring Batch. In many Java Enterprise environments, there is still a big need for automating moving data around. Spring Batch gives us a great head start on creating these batch processes. Note: if you’re in the area on Wednesday night (8/5/15), check out Keyhole Managing Partner David Pitt’s Spring Batch presentation at the …
If you are a programming today, you have most likely heard of Unit Testing or of the Test-Driven Development process. I have yet to run into a programmer that has not heard of both, nor one that says Unit Testing isn’t important. In casual discussions, most programmers seem to feel that Unit Tests are very important and that Test-Driven Development …
In the early days of Java development, we either didn’t see much of a need for build tools, or used what we had from other environments. I can still remember building shell scripts and make files for developing Java. The make files were especially interesting, because this was a tool that just wasn’t designed with Java in mind. It was …
