In the beginning of the year I posted about the ways you can use Hamcrest out of test code, together with hamcrest-collections. This combination allows us to write different kinds of matchers to select and reject items from lists, as well as applying map and reduce to them. After a while making use of them [...]

It’s been a while since I read some interesting posts showing creative uses of Hamcrest library out of test code. Since then I’ve been proscrastinating to implement my own version, trying strongly typed java delegates. Thankfully this week I came across a nice API called hamcrest-collections. It uses Hamcrest to implement features such as select, [...]

One of the things I really like about Spring 2.5 is the new set of annotations for defining controllers. Now you don’t have to extend any superclass to turn your class into a controller, just add the @Controller annotation on the top of the class definition and that’s it, you got one (still have to [...]