DevIL's Diary

You may sometimes find that all your tests pass, but in production your entities cannot be hydrated from the database. Take this example:
This test will happily pass, but the same call fails in production. Why?
Below are the entity classes - note, that JPA by default does not allow @Embeddable's to inherit (see e.g. the Hibernate Annotations Reference, section "3.2.4.4. Inherit properties from superclasses" for more details). Even worse, Hibernate does not...

Recently Jeffrey Palermo blogged about something he calls "constructor over-injection anti-pattern". This post caused a couple of reactions, in particular Mark Seemann's rebuttal to be mentioned. Mark Seemann already did a nice job arguing against the...

In the last installment of this series I showed you how you can leverage Spring.NET's ProxyFactory to wrap an object with a proxy and add interceptors to this proxy in order to enrich the behavior of your object's methods without having to changing a...

This is the second installment of my series about the internals of Spring.NET AOP. In my first post of this series I described the first step in separating concerns and how we can use the decorator pattern to make our code much better maintainable. Nevertheless...