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Sep 1, 2024 dry configuration apache apisix

DRY your Apache APISIX config

DRY is an important principle in software development. This post will show you how to apply it to Apache APISIX configuration. The DRY principle 'Don’t repeat yourself' (DRY) is a principle of software development aimed at reducing repetition of information which is likely to change, replacing it with abstractions that are less likely to change, or using data normalization which avoids redundancy in the first place. — Wikipedia - Don’t repeat yourself The main idea b

Jan 20, 2013 dry spring

DRY your Spring Beans configuration file

It’s always when you discuss with people that some things that you (or the people) hold for an evidence seems to be a closely-held secret. That’s what happened this week when I tentatively showed a trick during a training session that started a debate. Let’s take an example, but the idea behind this can of course be applied to many more use-cases: imagine you developed many DAO classes inheriting from the same abstract DAO Spring provides you with (JPA, Hibernate, plain JDBC,

Sep 4, 2011 dry maven

Skinny WAR done right

In a previous post, I wrote about how to create skinny WAR with Maven the DRY way: it was not the DRYier way to do it, as was demonstrated to me this week by my colleague Olivier Chapiteau (credit where credit is due). His solution is far more elegant; it is reproduced in the post for reference’s sake.

Apr 21, 2010 dry maven

DRY and skinny war

In this article, I will show you how the DRY principle can be applied when using the skinny war configuration of the maven-war-plugin. While packaging an EAR, it is sometimes suitable that all libraries of the different WARs be contained not in their respective WEB-INF/lib folders but at the EAR level so they are usable by all WARs. Some organizations even enforce this rule so that this is not merely desiarable but mandatory. Using Maven, nothing could be simpler. The maven-war-plugin documen