Articles for March, 2012

Hibernate Search Faceting: Discrete and Range Faceting by Example

Monday, March 26th, 2012

In today’s tutorial we’re exploring the world of faceted searches like the one we’re used to see when we’re searching for an item on Amazon.com or other websites. We’re using Hibernate Search here that offers an API to perform discrete as well as range faceted searches on our persisted data.

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Snippet: Mixing Scala, Java in a Maven Project

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Having just returned from the Atlassian Camp 2012 I just toyed around with Java and Scala and wanted to share the following snippet that demonstrates how to mix code from both languages in a Maven project using the maven-scala-plugin.

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Using the Android Fragment API in a Tablet App

Sunday, March 18th, 2012

Since I got a new tablet running Android 4.0 aka ice cream sandwich I wanted to play around a bit with the fragments API and creating an application for a tablet.

In the following tutorial, we’re going to build an application that renders several articles from a popular tech blog (just kidding) in a web view.

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Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Server and PageObjects by Example

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

A lot has changed since Selenium RC and WebDriver has given us a new syntax to write tests for our web pages. PageObjects add an abstraction to the pages under test and finally we’re able to programatically start Selenium server instances and use them to run the tests.

In the following tutorial, we’re writing some tests using PageObjects, WebDriver, Selenium Server and finally we’re even taking some screenshots of our tested web pages..

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