Author Archives: Sebastian Damm

Guava 21 erschienen – Im Zeichen von Java 8

Posted on 8. February 2017 by Sebastian Damm

Googles beliebte Bibliothek Guava ist in Version 21.0 erschienen. Hauptaspekt dieses Releases sind Anpassungen für Java 8, insbesondere dessen Lambdas & Streams API. Auszug der Neuerungen Guavas Function, Predicate und Supplier Interfaces erweitern jetzt die gleichnamigen FunctionalInterfaces aus Java 8. … Continue reading →

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HTTP/2 – concepts and status quo for Java EE developers

Posted on 23. September 2016 by Sebastian Damm

The HTTP/2 specification was finished by the end of 2015 and is the first significant protocal update since HTTP1.1, which was released in 1997. HTTP/2’s main goals are shortened loading times and decreased latency. Additionally, performance tweaks that are currently … Continue reading →

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Building reliable and effective functional tests for asynchronous/dynamic/single page web applications with Selenium and JUnit (1/2) – Basics

Posted on 7. December 2015 by Sebastian Damm

Selenium is a well established tool for browser automation and functional tests of web applications. The process to build reliable functional tests got harder since the advent of Web 2.0 applications that dynamically change the content of a page. Dima … Continue reading →

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ControlsFX 8.0.1 (JavaFX 8 component library) released

Posted on 11. July 2013 by Sebastian Damm

ControlsFX is an open-source project aimed at providing additional components for JavaFX 8. (Don´t get confused by the version numbers. ControlsFX 8.0.1 is only the second release of this young library and it started with version number 8.0.0 to be on line … Continue reading →

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ECMAScript 6 – The future of JavaScript

Posted on 9. May 2013 by Sebastian Damm

After the current standard, ECMAScript 5, was primarily aimed at making it easier to develop bigger and more sophisticated software in ECMAScript (strict mode, getters and setters, property descriptor maps, …), the 6th version is shaping up follow the trails … Continue reading →

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ECMAScript 5 – the current JavaScript standard

Posted on 16. April 2013 by Sebastian Damm

ECMAScript is THE language of the web and yet many developers aren´t even aware of its existence. It is a standard (named ECMA-262) developed by Ecma International that serves as a standardized basis for the likes of JavaScript, JScript or … Continue reading →

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NetBeans 7.2 – New Refactoring option ‘Replace Constructor with Builder…’

Posted on 4. October 2012 by Sebastian Damm

Some weeks ago version 7.2 of the NetBeans IDE was released (download at http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html). This version includes a nice new option to refactor your code. The Builder Pattern The Builder Pattern (amongst others made popular by Joshua Bloch’s 2nd edition of … Continue reading →

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