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My latest CoherentJava article explores Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) methodologies.

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Learn how to migrate a Gradle-based Java project to build and run with JDK 17.

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Back in the Saddle Again

Simply put, I haven’t had the time or energy to put much (or any) effort into Coherent Java lately and have basically been on hiatus from the site since 2016. Now that I’ve got both the time and energy to focus more on this site, you might say I’m “back in the saddle again,” to quote the 1938 song first made popular by Gene Autry. I’ll start out with some basic Java topics and then gradually…

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Asynchronous Couchbase Operations Using the Java SDK

Asynchronous Couchbase Operations Using the Java SDK

If you work with Couchbase in Java, you may at times need to perform a batch of document reads, writes, updates, or deletes. If you are running these operations in a typical sequential loop, one document at a time, and if the order of the operations is not significant, then you’ve been missing out on the performance gains available in Couchbase’s support for asynchronous batch operations.

My…

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Couchbase Java SDK Tutorials

Couchbase Java SDK Tutorials

I’ve been working a lot with Couchbase as of late, learning both the Spring Data Couchbase community module and the native Couchbase SDK for Java, and I want to share a couple of tutorials that I’ve written recently for baeldung.com.

The first, titled Introduction to Couchbase SDK for Java, will get you up and going quickly, covering basic techniques such as connecting to a cluster, opening data…

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More Spring Data Couchbase Tutorials

More Spring Data Couchbase Tutorials

The second article in the Spring Data Couchbase Tutorial series on baeldung.com focuses on entity validation using the JSR-303 specification, optimistic locking, and query consistency while the third article introduces the use of multiple buckets, as well as Spatial views for writing queries against multi-dimensional data, such as geographic data.

You can find all articles in this series…

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Spring Data Couchbase Tutorial

Spring Data Couchbase Tutorial

If you are considering incorporating a NoSQL database into your application, you might want to consider Couchbase. And if the native Couchbase SDK seems intimidating, or if you are a big fan of using Spring Data for your persistence needs, please take a look at this tutorial on Spring Data Couchbase that I wrote for baeldung.com.

Spring Data Couchbaseis a Spring community project that provides an…

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Define Custom RAML Properties Using Annotations

Define Custom RAML Properties Using Annotations

The fourth article in my RAML series on Baeldung.com focuses on the use of a feature called annotations that is new in RAML 1.0. In brief, annotations provide a means for extending the metadata of an API specification, allowing you to define custom properties that are not within scope of the official language spec. I hope you’ll enjoy Define Custom RAML Properties Using Annotations.

In case you…

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Modularization in RAML Using Includes, Libraries, Overlays and Extensions

Modularization in RAML Using Includes, Libraries, Overlays and Extensions

The third article in my RAML series on Baeldung.com focuses on the modularization features of RAML. It contains a brief introduction to the use of includes (including typed fragments), libraries, overlays and extensions to make your API definitions more modular. I hope you’ll enjoy Modular RAML Using Includes, Libraries, Overlays and Extensions.

In case you missed the first two articles, I’ve…

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