Tag Archives: Spring

Scalaz monads in Spring

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Jan Machacek

I won’t give you the category-theory based explanation of monads. Instead, I’m going to show you the application of monads, but not on Ints and Strings, but on ordinary domain instances; instances that we persist using Hibernate. Finally, we’ll run … Continue reading →

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SBT – DocBook Plugin

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Ndidi

Hey there! I’ve recently just started working with Cake Solutions, Scala and SBT. One of my first tasks was to improve the documentation in Specs2 Spring. SBT and DocBook As part of our Specs2 Spring project, we wanted to ensure users had … Continue reading →

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This week in #Scala (16/12/2011)

Posted on December 15, 2011 by mark

Welcome to another week in #Scala! Once again there’s plenty to tell you about, so read on:   New Stuff #Scala IDE for #Eclipse 2.0.0 Release Candidate 4 available now! This release adds compatibility with Groovy IDE – in addition … Continue reading →

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Dependency injection vs. Cake pattern

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Jan Machacek

Typically, the argument comes down to is Spring Framework better than Play Framework?, is Lift better than Spring Framework?, is Grails better than everything else?. In this post, we will explore the world of contemporary JEE applications, paying extra attention … Continue reading →

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We still like Spring!

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Jan Machacek

With all the recent Scala posts, you might think that we’ve abandoned our bread and butter, the Spring Framework. Absolutely not! Spring is still the most popular Java EE application framework; its dependency injection container allows us to combine the … Continue reading →

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Why Java

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Jan Machacek

At Cake Solutions, we have been using Java for quite a few years. Recently, I had to formulate why our customers should chose Java over other languages. It was easy to come up with geeky reasons, but purely technical reasons … Continue reading →

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Publish or perish

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Jan Machacek

As the old adage goes, one needs to publish or be forgotten. It’s been quite some time since we gave you Pro Spring 2.5; in that time, Spring 3.0, then 3.0.1 came out and we’re all eagerly awaiting Spring 3.1. … Continue reading →

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October North West Spring User Group Meeting

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Andrew Chalkley

Last Tuesday was the North West Spring User Group. I was asked to deliver my jQuery talk that I gave to the South Spring User Group back in September last year. It’s always good talking about jQuery as it’s relatively … Continue reading →

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Today’s web applications

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Jan Machacek

I gave a talk on today’s Java EE and related web applications at yesterday’s London Digital Week event at Skills Matter. I had a full room of geeks keen to find out what I think about web application development. I … Continue reading →

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That’s what I call performance

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Jan Machacek

We are completing work on caching and routing tier we added to a lived-in system. The performance increase is very substantial and I will write a lot more about how we achieved this next week. For now, I’ll wet your … Continue reading →

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