Both Carbon Five and my ISP have moved email management over to Gmail. While this has been a net improvement for me as an end user, it’s made it a bit more difficult to configure my applications to send outgoing mail. It isn’t hard to find examples online that explain how to configure Spring’s JavaMailSender …
At Carbon Five, we’ve been working REST-ful practices into our web applications for some time now. Providing simple URLs for application entities is a key principal of this style, but parsing parameters out of the request path has been klunky in Spring MVC. Spring’s WebFlow apparently supports REST-ful URLs, but I’ve never found anything in …
After a few hours of hair-pulling and a deep tour of the Spring source, we realized that the problem was that our test Spring configuration was in a different classpath root from our Hibernate mappings, even though both directories were in the test’s classpath.