Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple with plain Java and HTML, proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model and a refreshing lack of XML. Learn how to use Apache Wicket to create web applications on your own from the masters. This hands-on lab provides a quick introduction to the Wicket framework and a lot of coding.

The Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 specification bring a wider array of functionality and a more advanced feature set. The problem is that the standard doesn’t come with a detailed instruction booklet describing when to use the new features, or the specific problems they were meant to solve.

Our need for more speed comes from our Java unit testing suite’s taking so long to run that we’re forced to choose between two rather bad options. Either we stare at the terminal screen until we lose the flow or we trigger off the build and task-switch to something else. There are two distinct areas where we can work to improve the speed of our feedback cycle: code and build. Lasse Koskela shows you how to speed up your Java test code.

This video explains how to do Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) with JBehave in a Java software development context. In BDD, Product Owners and team members focus on the problem domain and develop a common language for expressing a product’s desired behavior as stories and acceptance test criteria. Developers can then map the stories and criteria on their test code to verify application behavior.

This practical video gives you the knowledge of code injection that you may (or I should rather say “will”) need. It will persuade you that it is really worth the time to learn the basics of code injection.

Learn how to improving the performance of your Spring applications with a pragmatic look on how to achieve easy gains through caching. This video analyzes the usual bottlenecks found in common application stacks and ways to address them. Various caching patterns are discussed focusing on both performance and scalability.

Spring Roo is an open source application development tool for Java developers that allows you to code 100% in Java and to reuse all your existing Java knowledge, skills and experience.