We had an interesting discussion the other day: should we write unit tests for delegate methods, that is, methods that only delegate the call to a delegate object? Here's an example of such a method:

public void do(Object o1, Object o2) {
    delegate.do(o1,o2);
}

I said I did …

Jérome Cambon wrote a nice introduction to TestFX and how to enable the headless mode using Monocle.

I tried to reproduce the steps he described for running my TestFX GUI tests in headless mode from Eclipse so I can keep using my mouse while they are running. The crux is …

A common use case for the TextFormatter class in JavaFX is a text field that should convert any lower-case character input into an upper-case character. This can be achieved easily by defining a filter for the text formatter as described here. A straightforward implementation could look like this:

private UnaryOperator …

There are a lot of code examples for restricting or modifying user input into a JavaFX text field. Most examples I have seen suggest adding a change listener to the text field's text property. Here's how you would allow only lower-case characters in your text field using the change listener …

After about two weeks of fiddling around, I finally managed to get my own instance of owncloud up and running with Apache behind Plesk. Here's how I did it:

1. Set up a sub-domain in Plesk, e.g. owcloud.mydomain.com
2. Set up a database for owncloud using Plesk.

3. Make sure …

What are these unit tests good for? Are we testing Mockito?

This is what a colleague asked another colleague a couple of days ago. He was referring to some rather complicated and long unit tests that used a lot of mocks and verify statements. I knew what he was talking …

Now that I have understood what a DTO is good for, I'm thinking about ways to improve it. As they are right now, our DTOs are POJOs extended by JSR 303 annotations for defining constraints on their fields/methods. The annotations are duplicates of the annotations defined on the corresponding …

Having worked a lot with EMF and Eclipse RCP applications based on EMF as the framework of choice for transferring domain models into code, I never got in touch with real-life examples of Data Transfer Objects (DTOs). I was familiar with the pattern in theory, but I never saw a …

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I usually go for "too much boilerplate".

I recently worked on JavaFX UI code that was new to me. In order to extend the existing UI by a simple label, I needed access to a bean of the underlying data model. Much to my surprise, I had to dig deep to find it hidden under multiple layers …