On my docket...

Russell Bateman
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The following are subjects and links to resources on my docket to look into, learn and write about.

JavaServer Faces (JSF), Facelets and presentation technologies

With the completion of JSF Facelets Template Project, this work is largely finished. I want to add, however, the following topics:

Maven as a build tool

I began to cover this in a largely unfinished document, Using Maven with Eclipse for Web Applications, that needs to be updated with progress made with JSF and Facelets.

Spring Web Flow

In place of the standard JavaServer Faces faces-config.xml, I'd like to graduate to Spring Web Flow. Here are some links to kick it off:

• Spring Web Flow—Introduction
• Simple Spring Web Flow Webapp (2008)
• Spring Framework: Chapter 6. Practical Use of Spring Web Flow
• Spring Web Flow Sample Applications (2008)

Mockito and Hamcrest

This is for testing and shouldn't necessarily happen after the preceding technologies as it's essential to write tests first, before writing actual implementation code. (Yes, I'm one of THOSE!)

• Hamcrest, a framework for writing matcher objects allowing match rules to be defined declaratively and in near-English expression.
  • Google page, Project Home
  • Google tutorial, The Hamcrest Tutorial
  • Using Hamcrest and JUnit (2010)
  • How Hamcrest can save your soul (2009 blog)
• Mockito
  • Google page, Project Home
  • Mockito in six easy examples
  • Mockito: Java Unit Testing with Mock Objects
  • Mockito en quelques transparences (en français !)