End-to-end testing Java web applications with an embedded Tomcat

In this instalment on assembly testing [1] I'll talk about how automated system tests run over my Java web applications. The set-up is rather cheap, not very labour-intensive and can incrementally evolve from a simple assembly test (aka smoke test) to a full-fledged system test. Since this post is rather concrete naming tools and frameworks, … Continue reading End-to-end testing Java web applications with an embedded Tomcat →

Fauxjsp: productive JSP development

Important note: This post is not being updated. For up-to-date information refer to the project repository: https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/fauxjsp/ About JSP In this post I'll present a new open source project I'm currently working on, fauxjsp [1] which re-implements JSP in a way that is more robust and faster for developers. It is intended for development, where … Continue reading Fauxjsp: productive JSP development →

Liferay diaries

I reposted some blog entries - rather technical notes - I kept during my work on Liferay while at Technopolis. While at first sceptic, I come to think that Liferay is an excellent all-rounder that kickstarts a web application easily: it brings elaborate user and content management features and plenty of integration hooks which is … Continue reading Liferay diaries →

Liferay diaries: Help! My validation errors are not showing!

While still battling form submissions in my Liferay/Spring MVC Form controller/Multi-portlet beast, I noticed that the Spring form tags would not display errors. As this post [1] explains, the reason is that the form backing object must be named exactly as the class consituting the backing object, but with the first letter in lowercase. Thus … Continue reading Liferay diaries: Help! My validation errors are not showing! →

Missing history update when clicking on links in GWT and HtmlUnit unittests

I'm still pretty enthusiastic about the benefits of templating [1] GWT UIs with HTML as it turns out to be a productive way for altering UIs without going through a tedious compilation and deployment procedure. HtmlUnit 2.9 is a great java browser for integration-testing Ajax applications. It works fine with GWT and we use it … Continue reading Missing history update when clicking on links in GWT and HtmlUnit unittests →