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mkyong

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20+ years hands-on, writing about Java, Spring, and AI. Every code example here is tested.

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While the unit test is running in the IDE, the Logback is showing a lot of configuration or status like this : 21:16:59,569 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext[default] – Could NOT find resource [logback.groovy] 21:16:59,569 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext[default] – Could NOT find resource [logback-test.xml] 21:16:59,569 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext[default] – Found resource [logback.xml] at … //… omitted for […]

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In this tutorial, we will show you few Java 8 examples to demonstrate the use of Streams filter(), collect(), findAny() and orElse() 1. Streams filter() and collect() 1.1 Before Java 8, filter a List like this : BeforeJava8.java package com.mkyong.java8; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.List; public class BeforeJava8 { public static void main(String[] args) […]

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In this article, we will show you a few StringJoiner examples to join String. 1. StringJoiner 1.1 Join String by a delimiter StringJoiner sj = new StringJoiner(","); sj.add("aaa"); sj.add("bbb"); sj.add("ccc"); String result = sj.toString(); //aaa,bbb,ccc 1.2 Join String by a delimiter and starting with a supplied prefix and ending with a supplied suffix. StringJoiner sj […]

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On Debian, you can use apt-cache policy ‘package name’ to check the package version. 1.1 Display Tomcat7 version. $ sudo apt-cache policy tomcat7 tomcat7: Installed: (none) Candidate: 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.3 Version table: 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.3 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages 7.0.52-1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 1.2 Display OpenJDK-7 version. $ sudo […]

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This article shows you the difference between Mutable and Immutable objects in Java 1. Mutable object – You can change the states and fields after the object is created. For examples: StringBuilder, java.util.Date and etc. 2. Immutable object – You cannot change anything after the object is created. For examples: String, boxed primitive objects like […]

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By default, the Gradle build process will be stopped and failed if any unit test is failed. $ gradle build :clean :compileJava :processResources :classes :compileTestJava :processTestResources UP-TO-DATE :testClasses :test com.mkyong.example.TestExample > test_example FAILED java.lang.Exception at TestExample.java:9 //… 3 tests completed, 1 failed :test FAILED //… BUILD FAILED // <————– see status In this article, we […]

Read more Gradle – How to continue build if test is failed

By default, gradle test displays only the test summary. Terminal % gradle test BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 4s 6 actionable tasks: 3 executed, 3 up-to-date P.S Gradle test generates the detailed tests’ result at the build/reports/tests/test/index.html page. P.S Tested with Gradle 6.7.1 1. Display test result in the console. 1.1 We add the testLogging events to […]

Read more Gradle – How to display test result in the console

Gradle example to exclude commons-logging from Spring frameworks. build.gradle compile(‘org.springframework:spring-webmvc:4.2.4.RELEASE’){ exclude group: ‘commons-logging’, module: ‘commons-logging’ } If you have multiple Spring dependencies, you have to exclude for each build.gradle compile(‘org.springframework:spring-webmvc:4.2.4.RELEASE’){ exclude group: ‘commons-logging’, module: ‘commons-logging’ } compile(‘org.springframework:spring-test:4.2.4.RELEASE’){ exclude group: ‘commons-logging’, module: ‘commons-logging’ } A better solution is excluding commons-logging at the project level. build.gradle configurations.all […]

Read more Gradle – Exclude commons-logging from Spring

Create a Gradle project in Jenkins CI, source management with Git, and build with Gradle Wrapper 1. Problem Jenkins console output, the build is failed – “Could not find org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain” [Gradle] – Launching build. [workspace] $ /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/GradleTest/workspace/gradlew clean test Error: Could not find or load main class org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain Build step ‘Invoke Gradle script’ changed build […]

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A Gradle build + JaCoCo coverage report. build.gradle apply plugin: ‘java’ apply plugin: ‘eclipse-wtp’ apply plugin: ‘jacoco’ //code coverage repositories { mavenLocal() mavenCentral() } jacoco { toolVersion = "0.7.5+" } jacocoTestReport { reports { html.enabled = true xml.enabled = true csv.enabled = false } } P.S Tested with Gradle 2.10 1. Problem 1.1 Run the […]

Read more Gradle JaCoCo – Incompatible version 1006

In this tutorial, we will show you how to ‘hot deploy’ or ‘hot swap’ a web application in IDEA. Note Tested with Intellij IDEA 14 and 15 1. Select exploded WAR Go Run –>> Edit Configurations –>> “Deployment” tab, clicks + icon –>> select an “exploded artifact” 2. Update classes and resources Select “Server” tab, […]

Read more Intellij IDEA – Auto reload a web application (hot deploy)

In Maven, we can use the official JBoss WildFly Maven Plugin to deploy a web application (war file) to the WildFly application server. Technologies tested : Maven 3.3.9 WildFly 9.0.2.final WildFly Maven Plugin 1.1.0.Alpha5 P.S This Spring MVC web application will be used for this deployment test. 1. Deploy WAR To WildFly 1.1 Start WildFly […]

Read more Maven – Deploy web application to WildFly

Maven package a web application and hits the following error message : $ mvn package //… [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.2:war (default-war) on project spring4-mvc-maven-ajax-example: Error assembling WAR: webxml attribute is required (or pre-existing WEB-INF/web.xml if executing in update mode) -> [Help 1] Solution 1. For servlet container < 3, make sure WEB-INF/web.xml file […]

Read more Maven – webxml attribute is required

Start a Java webapp with Maven Jetty plugin. $ mvn jetty:run 1. Problem But it hits the following error messages : [WARNING] FAILED org.eclipse.jetty.maven.plugin.JettyServer@1f53481b: java.net.BindException: Address already in use at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:433) at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:425) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:223) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:74) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.ServerConnector.open(ServerConnector.java:321) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractNetworkConnector.doStart(AbstractNetworkConnector.java:80) //… 2. Solution By default, the maven-jetty-plugin start Jetty on port […]

Read more Jetty – java.net.BindException: Address already in use

Review a jQuery Ajax form submit. $(document).ready(function () { $("#hostingForm").submit(function (e) { e.preventDefault(e); var data = {} data["id"] = $("#id").val(); data["domain"] = $("#domain").val(); data["name"] = $("#name").val(); //… $.ajax({ type: "POST", contentType: "application/json", url: "{{home}}/hosting/update", data: JSON.stringify(data), dataType: ‘json’, timeout: 600000, success: function (data) { console.log("SUCCESS: ", data); }, error: function (e) { console.log("ERROR: ", e); […]

Read more jQuery – Ajax request return 200 OK but error event is fired?

By default, Meteor app start on port 3000 $ meteor [[[[[ ~/path-to/meteor/hello ]]]]] => Started proxy. => Started MongoDB. => Started your app. => App running at: http://localhost:3000/ 1. Meteor Port 9999 To start Meteor app on a different port, start Meteor with –port parameter. $ meteor –port 9999 [[[[[ ~/path-to/meteor/app ]]]]] => Started proxy. […]

Read more How to start Meteor on different port

Review the below @PathVariable example. @RequestMapping("/site") public class SiteController { @RequestMapping(value = "/{q}", method = RequestMethod.GET) public ModelAndView display(@PathVariable("q") String q) { return getModelAndView(q, "site"); } } See the following cases : For input /site/google, q = google For input /site/google.com, q = google where is the .com? For input /site/google.com.my, q = google.com For […]

Read more Spring @PathVariable – Why is value truncated after the last (.)dot?

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a website with Meteor framework. Tools used : Meteor 1.2.1 Tested with Linux (Debian, Ubuntu or Mint) Tested with Mac OSX 1. Install Meteor Issue curl https://install.meteor.com | sh, everything will be installed and configured. $ curl https://install.meteor.com | sh % Total % Received % […]

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Reviewing a jQuery Ajax form POST and Spring MVC example, find out the following patterns : <script> jQuery(document).ready( function($) { $("#btn-save").click(function(event) { var id = $(‘#id’).val(); var domain = $(‘#domain’).val(); var name = $(‘#name’).val(); var desc = $(‘#desc’).val(); var tags = $(‘#tags’).val(); var afflink = $(‘#afflink’).val(); var cdn = $("#cdn").prop("checked") ? true : false; var […]

Read more Spring MVC – Refactoring a jQuery Ajax Post example

Spring doesn’t allow to inject value into static variables, for example: import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value; import org.springframework.stereotype.Component; @Component public class GlobalValue { @Value("${mongodb.db}") public static String DATABASE; } If you print out the GlobalValue.DATABASE, a null will be displayed. GlobalValue.DATABASE = null Solution To fix it, create a “none static setter” to assign the injected value for […]

Read more Spring – Inject value into static variables

In Java 8, you can use Files.lines to read file as Stream. c://lines.txt – A simple text file for testing line1 line2 line3 line4 line5 1. Java 8 Read File + Stream TestReadFile.java package com.mkyong.java8; import java.io.IOException; import java.nio.file.Files; import java.nio.file.Paths; import java.util.stream.Stream; public class TestReadFile { public static void main(String args[]) { String fileName […]

Read more Java 8 Stream – Read a file line by line

In Java, the System.getenv() returns an unmodifiable string Map view of the current system environment. Map<String, String> env = System.getenv(); // get PATH environment variable String path = System.getenv("PATH"); Table of contents. 1. Get a specified environment variable 2. UnsupportedOperationException 3. Display all environment variables 4. Sort the environment variables 5. Download Source Code 6. […]

Read more How to get the environment variables in Java

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Jackson 2.x to convert Java objects to / from a JSON. 1. Basic 1.1 Convert a Staff object to from JSON. writeValue(…) – Java Objects to JSON ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); // Java object to JSON file mapper.writeValue(new File("c:\\test\\staff.json"), new Staff()); // Java object […]

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Performs a large sort operation (Aggregation) in a collection, and hits the following error message : MongoDB Console > db.bigdata.aggregate( {$group : {_id : "$range", total : { $sum : 1 }}}, {$sort : {total : -1}} ); #… aggregate failed at Error (<anonymous>) at doassert (src/mongo/shell/assert.js:11:14) #… Error: command failed: { "errmsg" : "exception: […]

Read more MongoDB : Sort exceeded memory limit of 104857600 bytes

In Java, we can use String#split() to split a string. String phone = "012-3456789"; // String#split(string regex) accepts regex as the argument String[] output = phone.split("-"); String part1 = output[0]; // 012 String part2 = output[1]; // 3456789 Table of contents 1. Split a string (default) 2. Split a string and retain the delimiter 3. […]

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In Java, we can use TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep() or Thread.sleep() to delay few seconds. 1. TimeUnit JavaDelayExample.java package com.mkyong; import java.util.Date; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class JavaDelayExample { public static void main(String[] args) { try { System.out.println("Start…" + new Date()); // delay 5 seconds TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(5); System.out.println("End…" + new Date()); // delay 0.5 second //TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS.sleep(500); // delay 1 minute […]

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