Merge pull request #3 from eugenp/master

Syncing from original

aspectj/pom.xml

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+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+    <artifactId>aspectj</artifactId>
+    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <name>aspectj</name>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
+            <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
+            <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
+            <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
+            <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+    
+        <!-- utils -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+            <version>${logback.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${logback.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        
+        <!-- unit test -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>${junit.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <finalName>aspectj</finalName>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+                <filtering>true</filtering>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>${source.version}</source>
+                    <target>${source.version}</target>
+                </configuration>
+              
+            </plugin>
+            
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.7</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <complianceLevel>${source.version}</complianceLevel>
+                    <source>${source.version}</source>
+                    <target>${source.version}</target>
+                    <showWeaveInfo>true</showWeaveInfo>
+                    <verbose>true</verbose>
+                    <Xlint>ignore</Xlint>
+                    <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
+                    <!-- Post-compile weaving -->
+                    <!--
+                    <weaveDependencies>
+                        <weaveDependency>
+                              <groupId>org.agroup</groupId>
+                              <artifactId>to-weave</artifactId>
+                        </weaveDependency>
+                        <weaveDependency>
+                              <groupId>org.anothergroup</groupId>
+                              <artifactId>gen</artifactId>
+                        </weaveDependency>
+                      </weaveDependencies>
+                      -->
+                </configuration> 
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>compile</goal>
+                               <goal>test-compile</goal> 
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+           </plugin>
+            
+            <!-- <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.10</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <argLine>-javaagent:"${settings.localRepository}"/org/aspectj/aspectjweaver/${aspectj.version}/aspectjweaver-${aspectj.version}.jar</argLine>
+                    <useSystemClassLoader>true</useSystemClassLoader>
+                    <forkMode>always</forkMode>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>   -->
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <properties>
+        <source.version>1.8</source.version>
+        <aspectj.version>1.6.11</aspectj.version>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <aspectj.version>1.8.9</aspectj.version>
+        <org.slf4j.version>1.7.21</org.slf4j.version>
+        <logback.version>1.1.7</logback.version>
+        <maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.5.1</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
+        <junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
+    </properties>
+
+</project>

aspectj/src/main/java/com/baeldung/aspectj/Account.java

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+package com.baeldung.aspectj;
+
+public class Account {
+    int balance = 20;
+
+    public boolean withdraw(int amount) {
+        if (balance - amount > 0) {
+            balance = balance - amount;
+            return true;
+        } else
+            return false;
+    }
+}

aspectj/src/main/java/com/baeldung/aspectj/AccountAspect.aj

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+package com.baeldung.aspectj;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+public aspect AccountAspect {
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AccountAspect.class);
+    final int MIN_BALANCE = 10;
+
+    pointcut callWithDraw(int amount, Account account):
+             call(boolean Account.withdraw(int)) && args(amount) && target(account);
+
+    before(int amount, Account account) : callWithDraw(amount, account) {
+        logger.info(" Balance before withdrawal: {}", account.balance);
+        logger.info(" Withdraw ammout: {}", amount);
+    }
+
+    boolean around(int amount, Account account) : callWithDraw(amount, account) {
+        if (account.balance - amount >= MIN_BALANCE)
+            return proceed(amount, account);
+        else {
+            logger.info("Withdrawal Rejected!");
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    after(int amount, Account balance) : callWithDraw(amount, balance) {
+        logger.info("Balance after withdrawal : {}", balance.balance);
+    }
+}

aspectj/src/main/java/com/baeldung/aspectj/Secured.java

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package com.baeldung.aspectj;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
+public @interface Secured {
+    public boolean isLocked() default false; 
+}

aspectj/src/main/java/com/baeldung/aspectj/SecuredMethod.java

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+package com.baeldung.aspectj;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+public class SecuredMethod {
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SecuredMethod.class);
+
+    @Secured(isLocked = true)
+    public void lockedMethod() throws Exception {
+        logger.info("lockedMethod");
+    }
+
+    @Secured(isLocked = false)
+    public void unlockedMethod() {
+        logger.info("unlockedMethod");
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        SecuredMethod sv = new SecuredMethod();
+        sv.lockedMethod();
+    }
+}

aspectj/src/main/java/com/baeldung/aspectj/SecuredMethodAspect.java

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+package com.baeldung.aspectj;
+
+import org.aspectj.lang.ProceedingJoinPoint;
+import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Around;
+import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect;
+import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Pointcut;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+@Aspect
+public class SecuredMethodAspect {
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SecuredMethodAspect.class);
+
+    @Pointcut("@annotation(secured)")
+    public void callAt(Secured secured) {
+    }
+
+    @Around("callAt(secured)")
+    public Object around(ProceedingJoinPoint pjp, Secured secured) throws Throwable {
+        if (secured.isLocked()) {
+            logger.info(pjp.getSignature().toLongString() + " is locked");
+            return null;
+        } else {
+            return pjp.proceed();
+        }
+    }
+}

aspectj/src/main/resources/META-INF/aop.xml

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+<aspectj>
+    <aspects>
+        <aspect name="com.baeldung.aspectj.SecuredMethodAspect"/>
+        <weaver options="-verbose -showWeaveInfo">
+            <include within="com.baeldung.aspectj.*"/>
+        </weaver>
+    </aspects>
+</aspectj>

aspectj/src/main/resources/logback.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+
+	<appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+		<layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
+		      <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg %n</pattern>
+	    </layout>
+	</appender>
+
+	<logger name="com.baeldung.hazelcast" level="INFO" additivity="false">
+		<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+  	</logger>
+
+	<root level="DEBUG">          
+		<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+	</root>  
+  
+</configuration>

aspectj/src/test/java/com/baeldung/aspectj/test/AccountTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.aspectj.test;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.baeldung.aspectj.Account;
+
+public class AccountTest {
+    private Account account;
+
+    @Before
+    public void before() {
+        account = new Account();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenBalance20AndMinBalance10_whenWithdraw5_thenSuccess() {
+        assertTrue(account.withdraw(5));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenBalance20AndMinBalance10_whenWithdraw100_thenFail() {
+        assertFalse(account.withdraw(100));
+    }
+}

aspectj/src/test/java/com/baeldung/aspectj/test/SecuredMethodTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.aspectj.test;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.baeldung.aspectj.SecuredMethod;
+
+public class SecuredMethodTest {
+    @Test
+    public void testMethod() throws Exception {
+        SecuredMethod service = new SecuredMethod();
+        service.unlockedMethod();
+        service.lockedMethod();
+    }
+}

core-java-9/README.md

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 ## Core Java 9  Examples
 
-http://inprogress.baeldung.com/java-9-new-features/
+[Java 9 New Features](http://www.baeldung.com/new-java-9)

core-java-9/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java9/language/stream/StreamFeaturesTest.java

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+package com.baeldung.java9.language.stream;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+import static java.lang.Integer.*;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+public class StreamFeaturesTest {
+
+    public static class TakeAndDropWhileTest {
+
+        public Stream<String> getStreamAfterTakeWhileOperation() {
+            return Stream
+                    .iterate("", s -> s + "s")
+                    .takeWhile(s -> s.length() < 10);
+        }
+
+        public Stream<String> getStreamAfterDropWhileOperation() {
+            return Stream
+                    .iterate("", s -> s + "s")
+                    .takeWhile(s -> s.length() < 10)
+                    .dropWhile(s -> !s.contains("sssss"));
+        }
+
+        @Test
+        public void testTakeWhileOperation() {
+            List<String> list = getStreamAfterTakeWhileOperation().collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+            assertEquals(10, list.size());
+
+            assertEquals("", list.get(0));
+            assertEquals("ss", list.get(2));
+            assertEquals("sssssssss", list.get(list.size() - 1));
+        }
+
+        @Test
+        public void testDropWhileOperation() {
+            List<String> list = getStreamAfterDropWhileOperation().collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+            assertEquals(5, list.size());
+
+            assertEquals("sssss", list.get(0));
+            assertEquals("sssssss", list.get(2));
+            assertEquals("sssssssss", list.get(list.size() - 1));
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    public static class IterateTest {
+
+        private Stream<Integer> getStream() {
+            return Stream.iterate(0, i -> i < 10, i -> i + 1);
+        }
+
+        @Test
+        public void testIterateOperation() {
+            List<Integer> list = getStream().collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+            assertEquals(10, list.size());
+
+            assertEquals(valueOf(0), list.get(0));
+            assertEquals(valueOf(5), list.get(5));
+            assertEquals(valueOf(9), list.get(list.size() - 1));
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    public  static class OfNullableTest {
+
+        private List<String> collection = Arrays.asList("A", "B", "C");
+        private Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<>() {{
+           put("A", 10);
+           put("C", 30);
+        }};
+
+        private Stream<Integer> getStreamWithOfNullable() {
+            return collection.stream()
+                    .flatMap(s -> Stream.ofNullable(map.get(s)));
+        }
+
+        private Stream<Integer> getStream() {
+            return collection.stream()
+                            .flatMap(s -> {
+                                Integer temp = map.get(s);
+                                return temp != null ? Stream.of(temp) : Stream.empty();
+                            });
+        }
+
+        private List<Integer> testOfNullableFrom(Stream<Integer> stream) {
+            List<Integer> list = stream.collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+            assertEquals(2, list.size());
+
+            assertEquals(valueOf(10), list.get(0));
+            assertEquals(valueOf(30), list.get(list.size() - 1));
+
+            return list;
+        }
+
+        @Test
+        public void testOfNullable() {
+
+            assertEquals(
+                    testOfNullableFrom(getStream()),
+                    testOfNullableFrom(getStreamWithOfNullable())
+            );
+
+        }
+
+    }
+
+}

core-java/README.md

@@ -36,3 +36,5 @@
 - [Introduction to Thread Pools in Java](http://www.baeldung.com/thread-pool-java-and-guava)
 - [Introduction to Java 8 Streams](http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-streams-introduction)
 - [Guide to the Fork/Join Framework in Java](http://www.baeldung.com/java-fork-join)
+- [How to Print Screen in Java](http://www.baeldung.com/print-screen-in-java)
+- [How to Convert String to different data types in Java](http://www.baeldung.com/java-string-conversions)

core-java/pom.xml

@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
 			<version>3.3</version>
 		</dependency>
 
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
+			<artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
+			<version>1.55</version>
+		</dependency>
 		<!-- web -->
 
 		<!-- marshalling -->

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/equalshashcode/entities/ComplexClass.java

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+package com.baeldung.equalshashcode.entities;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+public class ComplexClass {
+
+    private List<?> genericList;
+    private Set<Integer> integerSet;
+
+    public ComplexClass(List<?> genericArrayList, Set<Integer> integerHashSet) {
+        super();
+        this.genericList = genericArrayList;
+        this.integerSet = integerHashSet;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        final int prime = 31;
+        int result = 1;
+        result = prime * result + ((genericList == null) ? 0 : genericList.hashCode());
+        result = prime * result + ((integerSet == null) ? 0 : integerSet.hashCode());
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        if (this == obj)
+            return true;
+        if (obj == null)
+            return false;
+        if (!(obj instanceof ComplexClass))
+            return false;
+        ComplexClass other = (ComplexClass) obj;
+        if (genericList == null) {
+            if (other.genericList != null)
+                return false;
+        } else if (!genericList.equals(other.genericList))
+            return false;
+        if (integerSet == null) {
+            if (other.integerSet != null)
+                return false;
+        } else if (!integerSet.equals(other.integerSet))
+            return false;
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    protected List<?> getGenericList() {
+        return genericList;
+    }
+
+    protected void setGenericArrayList(List<?> genericList) {
+        this.genericList = genericList;
+    }
+
+    protected Set<Integer> getIntegerSet() {
+        return integerSet;
+    }
+
+    protected void setIntegerSet(Set<Integer> integerSet) {
+        this.integerSet = integerSet;
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/equalshashcode/entities/PrimitiveClass.java

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+package com.baeldung.equalshashcode.entities;
+
+public class PrimitiveClass {
+
+    private boolean primitiveBoolean;
+    private int primitiveInt;
+
+    public PrimitiveClass(boolean primitiveBoolean, int primitiveInt) {
+        super();
+        this.primitiveBoolean = primitiveBoolean;
+        this.primitiveInt = primitiveInt;
+    }
+
+    protected boolean isPrimitiveBoolean() {
+        return primitiveBoolean;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        final int prime = 31;
+        int result = 1;
+        result = prime * result + (primitiveBoolean ? 1231 : 1237);
+        result = prime * result + primitiveInt;
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        if (this == obj)
+            return true;
+        if (obj == null)
+            return false;
+        if (getClass() != obj.getClass())
+            return false;
+        PrimitiveClass other = (PrimitiveClass) obj;
+        if (primitiveBoolean != other.primitiveBoolean)
+            return false;
+        if (primitiveInt != other.primitiveInt)
+            return false;
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    protected void setPrimitiveBoolean(boolean primitiveBoolean) {
+        this.primitiveBoolean = primitiveBoolean;
+    }
+
+    protected int getPrimitiveInt() {
+        return primitiveInt;
+    }
+
+    protected void setPrimitiveInt(int primitiveInt) {
+        this.primitiveInt = primitiveInt;
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/equalshashcode/entities/Rectangle.java

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+package com.baeldung.equalshashcode.entities;
+
+public class Rectangle extends Shape {
+    private double width;
+    private double length;
+
+    public Rectangle(double width, double length) {
+        this.width = width;
+        this.length = length;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public double area() {
+        return width * length;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public double perimeter() {
+        return 2 * (width + length);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        final int prime = 31;
+        int result = 1;
+        long temp;
+        temp = Double.doubleToLongBits(length);
+        result = prime * result + (int) (temp ^ (temp >>> 32));
+        temp = Double.doubleToLongBits(width);
+        result = prime * result + (int) (temp ^ (temp >>> 32));
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        if (this == obj)
+            return true;
+        if (obj == null)
+            return false;
+        if (getClass() != obj.getClass())
+            return false;
+        Rectangle other = (Rectangle) obj;
+        if (Double.doubleToLongBits(length) != Double.doubleToLongBits(other.length))
+            return false;
+        if (Double.doubleToLongBits(width) != Double.doubleToLongBits(other.width))
+            return false;
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    protected double getWidth() {
+        return width;
+    }
+
+    protected double getLength() {
+        return length;
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/equalshashcode/entities/Shape.java

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package com.baeldung.equalshashcode.entities;
+
+public abstract class Shape {
+    public abstract double area();
+
+    public abstract double perimeter();
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/equalshashcode/entities/Square.java

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package com.baeldung.equalshashcode.entities;
+
+import java.awt.Color;
+
+public class Square extends Rectangle {
+
+    Color color;
+
+    public Square(double width, Color color) {
+        super(width, width);
+        this.color = color;
+    }
+
+    /* (non-Javadoc)
+     * @see java.lang.Object#hashCode()
+     */
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        final int prime = 31;
+        int result = super.hashCode();
+        result = prime * result + ((color == null) ? 0 : color.hashCode());
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /* (non-Javadoc)
+     * @see java.lang.Object#equals(java.lang.Object)
+     */
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        if (this == obj) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (!super.equals(obj)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (!(obj instanceof Square)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        Square other = (Square) obj;
+        if (color == null) {
+            if (other.color != null) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        } else if (!color.equals(other.color)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    protected Color getColor() {
+        return color;
+    }
+
+    protected void setColor(Color color) {
+        this.color = color;
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/executable/ExecutableMavenJar.java

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+package com.baeldung.executable;
+
+import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
+
+public class ExecutableMavenJar {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "It worked!", "Executable Jar with Maven", 1);
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/hashing/SHA256Hashing.java

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+package com.baeldung.hashing;
+
+
+import com.google.common.hash.Hashing;
+import org.apache.commons.codec.digest.DigestUtils;
+import org.bouncycastle.util.encoders.Hex;
+
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.security.MessageDigest;
+import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
+
+public class SHA256Hashing {
+
+    public static String HashWithJavaMessageDigest(final String originalString)
+            throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {
+        final MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
+        final byte[] encodedhash = digest.digest(
+                originalString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+        return bytesToHex(encodedhash);
+    }
+
+    public static String HashWithGuava(final String originalString) {
+        final String sha256hex = Hashing.sha256().hashString(
+                originalString, StandardCharsets.UTF_8).toString();
+        return sha256hex;
+    }
+
+    public static String HashWithApacheCommons(final String originalString) {
+        final String sha256hex = DigestUtils.sha256Hex(originalString);
+        return sha256hex;
+    }
+
+    public static String HashWithBouncyCastle(final String originalString)
+            throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {
+        final MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
+        final byte[] hash = digest.digest(
+                originalString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+        final String sha256hex = new String(Hex.encode(hash));
+        return sha256hex;
+    }
+
+    private static String bytesToHex(byte[] hash) {
+        StringBuffer hexString = new StringBuffer();
+        for (int i = 0; i < hash.length; i++) {
+            String hex = Integer.toHexString(0xff & hash[i]);
+            if(hex.length() == 1) hexString.append('0');
+            hexString.append(hex);
+        }
+        return hexString.toString();
+    }
+}

core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/java/networking/udp/EchoClient.java

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ public class EchoClient {
     public String sendEcho(String msg) {
         DatagramPacket packet = null;
         try {
-            buf=msg.getBytes();
+            buf = msg.getBytes();
             packet = new DatagramPacket(buf, buf.length, address, 4445);
             socket.send(packet);
             packet = new DatagramPacket(buf, buf.length);

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/datetime/UseLocalDateTimeUnitTest.java

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ public class UseLocalDateTimeUnitTest {
     UseLocalDateTime useLocalDateTime = new UseLocalDateTime();
 
     @Test
-    public void givenString_whenUsingParse_thenLocalDateTime(){
+    public void givenString_whenUsingParse_thenLocalDateTime() {
-        Assert.assertEquals(LocalDate.of(2016, Month.MAY, 10),useLocalDateTime.getLocalDateTimeUsingParseMethod("2016-05-10T06:30").toLocalDate());
+        Assert.assertEquals(LocalDate.of(2016, Month.MAY, 10), useLocalDateTime.getLocalDateTimeUsingParseMethod("2016-05-10T06:30").toLocalDate());
-        Assert.assertEquals(LocalTime.of(6,30),useLocalDateTime.getLocalDateTimeUsingParseMethod("2016-05-10T06:30").toLocalTime());
+        Assert.assertEquals(LocalTime.of(6, 30), useLocalDateTime.getLocalDateTimeUsingParseMethod("2016-05-10T06:30").toLocalTime());
     }
 }

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/datetime/UseLocalDateUnitTest.java

@@ -12,43 +12,43 @@ public class UseLocalDateUnitTest {
     UseLocalDate useLocalDate = new UseLocalDate();
 
     @Test
-    public void givenValues_whenUsingFactoryOf_thenLocalDate(){
+    public void givenValues_whenUsingFactoryOf_thenLocalDate() {
-        Assert.assertEquals("2016-05-10",useLocalDate.getLocalDateUsingFactoryOfMethod(2016,5,10).toString());
+        Assert.assertEquals("2016-05-10", useLocalDate.getLocalDateUsingFactoryOfMethod(2016, 5, 10).toString());
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenString_whenUsingParse_thenLocalDate(){
+    public void givenString_whenUsingParse_thenLocalDate() {
-        Assert.assertEquals("2016-05-10",useLocalDate.getLocalDateUsingParseMethod("2016-05-10").toString());
+        Assert.assertEquals("2016-05-10", useLocalDate.getLocalDateUsingParseMethod("2016-05-10").toString());
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void whenUsingClock_thenLocalDate(){
+    public void whenUsingClock_thenLocalDate() {
-        Assert.assertEquals(LocalDate.now(),useLocalDate.getLocalDateFromClock());
+        Assert.assertEquals(LocalDate.now(), useLocalDate.getLocalDateFromClock());
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenDate_whenUsingPlus_thenNextDay(){
+    public void givenDate_whenUsingPlus_thenNextDay() {
-        Assert.assertEquals(LocalDate.now().plusDays(1),useLocalDate.getNextDay(LocalDate.now()));
+        Assert.assertEquals(LocalDate.now().plusDays(1), useLocalDate.getNextDay(LocalDate.now()));
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenDate_whenUsingMinus_thenPreviousDay(){
+    public void givenDate_whenUsingMinus_thenPreviousDay() {
-        Assert.assertEquals(LocalDate.now().minusDays(1),useLocalDate.getPreviousDay(LocalDate.now()));
+        Assert.assertEquals(LocalDate.now().minusDays(1), useLocalDate.getPreviousDay(LocalDate.now()));
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenToday_whenUsingGetDayOfWeek_thenDayOfWeek(){
+    public void givenToday_whenUsingGetDayOfWeek_thenDayOfWeek() {
-        Assert.assertEquals(DayOfWeek.SUNDAY,useLocalDate.getDayOfWeek(LocalDate.parse("2016-05-22")));
+        Assert.assertEquals(DayOfWeek.SUNDAY, useLocalDate.getDayOfWeek(LocalDate.parse("2016-05-22")));
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenToday_whenUsingWithTemporalAdjuster_thenFirstDayOfMonth(){
+    public void givenToday_whenUsingWithTemporalAdjuster_thenFirstDayOfMonth() {
-        Assert.assertEquals(1,useLocalDate.getFirstDayOfMonth().getDayOfMonth());
+        Assert.assertEquals(1, useLocalDate.getFirstDayOfMonth().getDayOfMonth());
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenLocalDate_whenUsingAtStartOfDay_thenReturnMidnight(){
+    public void givenLocalDate_whenUsingAtStartOfDay_thenReturnMidnight() {
-        Assert.assertEquals(LocalDateTime.parse("2016-05-22T00:00:00"),useLocalDate.getStartOfDay(LocalDate.parse("2016-05-22")));
+        Assert.assertEquals(LocalDateTime.parse("2016-05-22T00:00:00"), useLocalDate.getStartOfDay(LocalDate.parse("2016-05-22")));
     }
 
 }

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/datetime/UseLocalTimeUnitTest.java

@@ -10,27 +10,27 @@ public class UseLocalTimeUnitTest {
     UseLocalTime useLocalTime = new UseLocalTime();
 
     @Test
-    public void givenValues_whenUsingFactoryOf_thenLocalTime(){
+    public void givenValues_whenUsingFactoryOf_thenLocalTime() {
-        Assert.assertEquals("07:07:07",useLocalTime.getLocalTimeUsingFactoryOfMethod(7,7,7).toString());
+        Assert.assertEquals("07:07:07", useLocalTime.getLocalTimeUsingFactoryOfMethod(7, 7, 7).toString());
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenString_whenUsingParse_thenLocalTime(){
+    public void givenString_whenUsingParse_thenLocalTime() {
-        Assert.assertEquals("06:30",useLocalTime.getLocalTimeUsingParseMethod("06:30").toString());
+        Assert.assertEquals("06:30", useLocalTime.getLocalTimeUsingParseMethod("06:30").toString());
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenTime_whenAddHour_thenLocalTime(){
+    public void givenTime_whenAddHour_thenLocalTime() {
-        Assert.assertEquals("07:30",useLocalTime.addAnHour(LocalTime.of(6,30)).toString());
+        Assert.assertEquals("07:30", useLocalTime.addAnHour(LocalTime.of(6, 30)).toString());
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void getHourFromLocalTime(){
+    public void getHourFromLocalTime() {
-        Assert.assertEquals(1, useLocalTime.getHourFromLocalTime(LocalTime.of(1,1)));
+        Assert.assertEquals(1, useLocalTime.getHourFromLocalTime(LocalTime.of(1, 1)));
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void getLocalTimeWithMinuteSetToValue(){
+    public void getLocalTimeWithMinuteSetToValue() {
-        Assert.assertEquals(LocalTime.of(10, 20), useLocalTime.getLocalTimeWithMinuteSetToValue(LocalTime.of(10,10), 20));
+        Assert.assertEquals(LocalTime.of(10, 20), useLocalTime.getLocalTimeWithMinuteSetToValue(LocalTime.of(10, 10), 20));
     }
 }

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/datetime/UsePeriodUnitTest.java

@@ -7,17 +7,17 @@ import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 public class UsePeriodUnitTest {
-    UsePeriod usingPeriod=new UsePeriod();
+    UsePeriod usingPeriod = new UsePeriod();
 
     @Test
-    public void givenPeriodAndLocalDate_thenCalculateModifiedDate(){
+    public void givenPeriodAndLocalDate_thenCalculateModifiedDate() {
         Period period = Period.ofDays(1);
         LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse("2007-05-10");
-        Assert.assertEquals(localDate.plusDays(1),usingPeriod.modifyDates(localDate, period));
+        Assert.assertEquals(localDate.plusDays(1), usingPeriod.modifyDates(localDate, period));
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenDates_thenGetPeriod(){
+    public void givenDates_thenGetPeriod() {
         LocalDate localDate1 = LocalDate.parse("2007-05-10");
         LocalDate localDate2 = LocalDate.parse("2007-05-15");
 

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/datetime/UseZonedDateTimeUnitTest.java

@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ import org.junit.Test;
 
 public class UseZonedDateTimeUnitTest {
 
-    UseZonedDateTime zonedDateTime=new UseZonedDateTime();
+    UseZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = new UseZonedDateTime();
 
     @Test
-    public void givenZoneId_thenZonedDateTime(){
+    public void givenZoneId_thenZonedDateTime() {
-        ZoneId zoneId=ZoneId.of("Europe/Paris");
+        ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.of("Europe/Paris");
-        ZonedDateTime zonedDatetime=zonedDateTime.getZonedDateTime(LocalDateTime.parse("2016-05-20T06:30"), zoneId);
+        ZonedDateTime zonedDatetime = zonedDateTime.getZonedDateTime(LocalDateTime.parse("2016-05-20T06:30"), zoneId);
-        Assert.assertEquals(zoneId,ZoneId.from(zonedDatetime));
+        Assert.assertEquals(zoneId, ZoneId.from(zonedDatetime));
     }
 }

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/encoderdecoder/EncoderDecoderUnitTest.java

@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ public class EncoderDecoderUnitTest {
         return encoded;
     }
 
-
     private String decode(String value) {
         String decoded = null;
         try {
@@ -59,9 +58,7 @@ public class EncoderDecoderUnitTest {
         requestParams.put("key2", "value@!$2");
         requestParams.put("key3", "value%3");
 
-        String encodedURL = requestParams.keySet().stream()
+        String encodedURL = requestParams.keySet().stream().map(key -> key + "=" + encodeValue(requestParams.get(key))).collect(joining("&", "http://www.baeldung.com?", ""));
-          .map(key -> key + "=" + encodeValue(requestParams.get(key)))
-          .collect(joining("&", "http://www.baeldung.com?", ""));
 
         Assert.assertThat(testUrl, CoreMatchers.is(encodedURL));
     }
@@ -72,12 +69,9 @@ public class EncoderDecoderUnitTest {
 
         String query = url.getQuery();
 
-        String decodedQuery = Arrays.stream(query.split("&"))
+        String decodedQuery = Arrays.stream(query.split("&")).map(param -> param.split("=")[0] + "=" + decode(param.split("=")[1])).collect(joining("&"));
-          .map(param -> param.split("=")[0] + "=" + decode(param.split("=")[1]))
-          .collect(joining("&"));
 
-        Assert.assertEquals(
+        Assert.assertEquals("http://www.baeldung.com?key1=value 1&key2=value@!$2&key3=value%3", url.getProtocol() + "://" + url.getHost() + "?" + decodedQuery);
-          "http://www.baeldung.com?key1=value 1&key2=value@!$2&key3=value%3", url.getProtocol() + "://" + url.getHost() + "?" + decodedQuery);
     }
 
 }

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/enums/PizzaUnitTest.java

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package com.baeldung.enums;
 
-
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/hashing/SHA256HashingTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package com.baeldung.hashing;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+
+public class SHA256HashingTest {
+
+    private static String originalValue = "abc123";
+    private static String hashedValue =
+            "6ca13d52ca70c883e0f0bb101e425a89e8624de51db2d2392593af6a84118090";
+
+    @Test
+    public void testHashWithJavaMessageDigest() throws Exception {
+        final String currentHashedValue = SHA256Hashing.HashWithJavaMessageDigest(originalValue);
+        assertEquals(currentHashedValue, hashedValue);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testHashWithGuava() throws Exception {
+        final String currentHashedValue = SHA256Hashing.HashWithApacheCommons(originalValue);
+        assertEquals(currentHashedValue, hashedValue);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testHashWithApacheCommans() throws Exception {
+        final String currentHashedValue = SHA256Hashing.HashWithGuava(originalValue);
+        assertEquals(currentHashedValue, hashedValue);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testHashWithBouncyCastle() throws Exception {
+        final String currentHashedValue = SHA256Hashing.HashWithBouncyCastle(originalValue);
+        assertEquals(currentHashedValue, hashedValue);
+    }
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/hexToAscii/HexToAscii.java

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+package com.baeldung.hexToAscii;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class HexToAscii {
+
+    @Test
+    public static void whenHexToAscii() {
+        String asciiString = "http://www.baeldung.com/jackson-serialize-dates";
+        String hexEquivalent = "687474703a2f2f7777772e6261656c64756e672e636f6d2f6a61636b736f6e2d73657269616c697a652d6461746573";
+
+        assertEquals(asciiString, hexToAscii(hexEquivalent));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public static void whenAsciiToHex() {
+        String asciiString = "http://www.baeldung.com/jackson-serialize-dates";
+        String hexEquivalent = "687474703a2f2f7777772e6261656c64756e672e636f6d2f6a61636b736f6e2d73657269616c697a652d6461746573";
+
+        assertEquals(hexEquivalent, asciiToHex(asciiString));
+    }
+
+    //
+
+    private static String asciiToHex(String asciiStr) {
+        char[] chars = asciiStr.toCharArray();
+        StringBuilder hex = new StringBuilder();
+        for (char ch : chars) {
+            hex.append(Integer.toHexString((int) ch));
+        }
+
+        return hex.toString();
+    }
+
+    private static String hexToAscii(String hexStr) {
+        StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder("");
+        for (int i = 0; i < hexStr.length(); i += 2) {
+            String str = hexStr.substring(i, i + 2);
+            output.append((char) Integer.parseInt(str, 16));
+        }
+        return output.toString();
+    }
+
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java/conversion/StringConversionTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+package com.baeldung.java.conversion;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+import java.text.ParseException;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.time.LocalDateTime;
+import java.time.Month;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Calendar;
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.baeldung.datetime.UseLocalDateTime;
+
+public class StringConversionTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedToInt_thenCorrect() {
+        String beforeConvStr = "1";
+        int afterConvInt = 1;
+
+        assertEquals(Integer.parseInt(beforeConvStr), afterConvInt);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedToInteger_thenCorrect() {
+        String beforeConvStr = "12";
+        Integer afterConvInteger = 12;
+
+        assertEquals(Integer.valueOf(beforeConvStr).equals(afterConvInteger), true);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedTolong_thenCorrect() {
+        String beforeConvStr = "12345";
+        long afterConvLongPrimitive = 12345;
+
+        assertEquals(Long.parseLong(beforeConvStr), afterConvLongPrimitive);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedToLong_thenCorrect() {
+        String beforeConvStr = "14567";
+        Long afterConvLong = 14567l;
+
+        assertEquals(Long.valueOf(beforeConvStr).equals(afterConvLong), true);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedTodouble_thenCorrect() {
+        String beforeConvStr = "1.4";
+        double afterConvDoublePrimitive = 1.4;
+
+        assertEquals(Double.parseDouble(beforeConvStr), afterConvDoublePrimitive, 0.0);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedToDouble_thenCorrect() {
+        String beforeConvStr = "145.67";
+        double afterConvDouble = 145.67d;
+
+        assertEquals(Double.valueOf(beforeConvStr).equals(afterConvDouble), true);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedToByteArr_thenCorrect() {
+        String beforeConvStr = "abc";
+        byte[] afterConvByteArr = new byte[] { 'a', 'b', 'c' };
+
+        assertEquals(Arrays.equals(beforeConvStr.getBytes(), afterConvByteArr), true);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedToboolean_thenCorrect() {
+        String beforeConvStr = "true";
+        boolean afterConvBooleanPrimitive = true;
+
+        assertEquals(Boolean.parseBoolean(beforeConvStr), afterConvBooleanPrimitive);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedToBoolean_thenCorrect() {
+        String beforeConvStr = "true";
+        Boolean afterConvBoolean = true;
+
+        assertEquals(Boolean.valueOf(beforeConvStr), afterConvBoolean);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedToCharArr_thenCorrect() {
+        String beforeConvStr = "hello";
+        char[] afterConvCharArr = { 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o' };
+
+        assertEquals(Arrays.equals(beforeConvStr.toCharArray(), afterConvCharArr), true);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedToDate_thenCorrect() throws ParseException {
+        String beforeConvStr = "15/10/2013";
+        int afterConvCalendarDay = 15;
+        int afterConvCalendarMonth = 9;
+        int afterConvCalendarYear = 2013;
+        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/M/yyyy");
+        Date afterConvDate = formatter.parse(beforeConvStr);
+        Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
+        calendar.setTime(afterConvDate);
+
+        assertEquals(calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH), afterConvCalendarDay);
+        assertEquals(calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH), afterConvCalendarMonth);
+        assertEquals(calendar.get(Calendar.YEAR), afterConvCalendarYear);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenConvertedToLocalDateTime_thenCorrect() {
+        String str = "2007-12-03T10:15:30";
+        int afterConvCalendarDay = 03;
+        Month afterConvCalendarMonth = Month.DECEMBER;
+        int afterConvCalendarYear = 2007;
+        LocalDateTime afterConvDate 
+          = new UseLocalDateTime().getLocalDateTimeUsingParseMethod(str);
+
+        assertEquals(afterConvDate.getDayOfMonth(), afterConvCalendarDay);
+        assertEquals(afterConvDate.getMonth(), afterConvCalendarMonth);
+        assertEquals(afterConvDate.getYear(), afterConvCalendarYear);
+    }
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java/networking/interfaces/NetworkInterfaceManualTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+package com.baeldung.java.networking.interfaces;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.net.*;
+import java.util.Enumeration;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+public class NetworkInterfaceManualTest {
+    @Test
+    public void givenName_whenReturnsNetworkInterface_thenCorrect() throws SocketException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("lo");
+        assertNotNull(nif);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenInExistentName_whenReturnsNull_thenCorrect() throws SocketException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("inexistent_name");
+        assertNull(nif);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenIP_whenReturnsNetworkInterface_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        byte[] ip = new byte[] { 127, 0, 0, 1 };
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByInetAddress(InetAddress.getByAddress(ip));
+        assertNotNull(nif);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenHostName_whenReturnsNetworkInterface_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByInetAddress(InetAddress.getByName("localhost"));
+        assertNotNull(nif);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLocalHost_whenReturnsNetworkInterface_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByInetAddress(InetAddress.getLocalHost());
+        assertNotNull(nif);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLoopBack_whenReturnsNetworkInterface_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByInetAddress(InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress());
+        assertNotNull(nif);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenIndex_whenReturnsNetworkInterface_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByIndex(0);
+        assertNotNull(nif);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenInterface_whenReturnsInetAddresses_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("lo");
+        Enumeration<InetAddress> addressEnum = nif.getInetAddresses();
+        InetAddress address = addressEnum.nextElement();
+        assertEquals("127.0.0.1", address.getHostAddress());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenInterface_whenReturnsInterfaceAddresses_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("lo");
+
+        List<InterfaceAddress> addressEnum = nif.getInterfaceAddresses();
+        InterfaceAddress address = addressEnum.get(0);
+        InetAddress localAddress = address.getAddress();
+        InetAddress broadCastAddress = address.getBroadcast();
+        assertEquals("127.0.0.1", localAddress.getHostAddress());
+        assertEquals("127.255.255.255", broadCastAddress.getHostAddress());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenInterface_whenChecksIfLoopback_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("lo");
+        assertTrue(nif.isLoopback());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenInterface_whenChecksIfUp_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("lo");
+        assertTrue(nif.isUp());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenInterface_whenChecksIfPointToPoint_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("lo");
+        assertFalse(nif.isPointToPoint());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenInterface_whenChecksIfVirtual_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("lo");
+        assertFalse(nif.isVirtual());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenInterface_whenChecksMulticastSupport_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("lo");
+        assertTrue(nif.supportsMulticast());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenInterface_whenGetsMacAddress_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("lo");
+        byte[] bytes = nif.getHardwareAddress();
+        assertNotNull(bytes);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenInterface_whenGetsMTU_thenCorrect() throws SocketException, UnknownHostException {
+        NetworkInterface nif = NetworkInterface.getByName("net0");
+        int mtu = nif.getMTU();
+        assertEquals(1500, mtu);
+    }
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java/networking/udp/UDPIntegrationTest.java

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package com.baeldung.java.networking.udp;
 
-
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java/nio2/FileTest.java

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public class FileTest {
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenExistentDirPath_whenConfirmsNotRegularFile_thenCorrect() {
+    public void givenDirPath_whenConfirmsNotRegularFile_thenCorrect() {
         Path p = Paths.get(HOME);
         assertFalse(Files.isRegularFile(p));
     }
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ public class FileTest {
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void givenFilePath_whenCreatesTempFileWithDefaultsNaming_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+    public void givenPath_whenCreatesTempFileWithDefaults_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
         Path p = Paths.get(HOME + "/");
         p = Files.createTempFile(p, null, null);
         // like 8600179353689423985.tmp
@@ -161,7 +161,9 @@ public class FileTest {
     @Test(expected = NoSuchFileException.class)
     public void givenInexistentFile_whenDeleteFails_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
         Path p = Paths.get(HOME + "/inexistentFile.txt");
+        assertFalse(Files.exists(p));
         Files.delete(p);
+
     }
 
     @Test

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java/nio2/PathManualTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+package com.baeldung.java.nio2;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class PathManualTest {
+
+    private static final String HOME = System.getProperty("user.home");
+
+    // creating a path
+    @Test
+    public void givenPathString_whenCreatesPathObject_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/articles/baeldung");
+        assertEquals("\\articles\\baeldung", p.toString());
+
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPathParts_whenCreatesPathObject_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/articles", "baeldung");
+        assertEquals("\\articles\\baeldung", p.toString());
+
+    }
+
+    // retrieving path info
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenRetrievesFileName_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/articles/baeldung/logs");
+        assertEquals("logs", p.getFileName().toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenRetrievesNameByIndex_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/articles/baeldung/logs");
+        assertEquals("articles", p.getName(0).toString());
+        assertEquals("baeldung", p.getName(1).toString());
+        assertEquals("logs", p.getName(2).toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenCountsParts_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/articles/baeldung/logs");
+        assertEquals(3, p.getNameCount());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenCanRetrieveSubsequenceByIndex_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/articles/baeldung/logs");
+        assertEquals("articles", p.subpath(0, 1).toString());
+        assertEquals("articles\\baeldung", p.subpath(0, 2).toString());
+        assertEquals("articles\\baeldung\\logs", p.subpath(0, 3).toString());
+        assertEquals("baeldung", p.subpath(1, 2).toString());
+        assertEquals("baeldung\\logs", p.subpath(1, 3).toString());
+        assertEquals("logs", p.subpath(2, 3).toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenRetrievesParent_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p1 = Paths.get("/articles/baeldung/logs");
+        Path p2 = Paths.get("/articles/baeldung");
+        Path p3 = Paths.get("/articles");
+        Path p4 = Paths.get("/");
+
+        assertEquals("\\articles\\baeldung", p1.getParent().toString());
+        assertEquals("\\articles", p2.getParent().toString());
+        assertEquals("\\", p3.getParent().toString());
+        assertEquals(null, p4.getParent());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenRetrievesRoot_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p1 = Paths.get("/articles/baeldung/logs");
+        Path p2 = Paths.get("c:/articles/baeldung/logs");
+
+        assertEquals("\\", p1.getRoot().toString());
+        assertEquals("c:\\", p2.getRoot().toString());
+    }
+
+    // removing redundancies from path
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenRemovesRedundancies_thenCorrect1() {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/home/./baeldung/articles");
+        p = p.normalize();
+        assertEquals("\\home\\baeldung\\articles", p.toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenRemovesRedundancies_thenCorrect2() {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/home/baeldung/../articles");
+        p = p.normalize();
+        assertEquals("\\home\\articles", p.toString());
+    }
+
+    // converting a path
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenConvertsToBrowseablePath_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/home/baeldung/articles.html");
+        URI uri = p.toUri();
+        assertEquals("file:///E:/home/baeldung/articles.html", uri.toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenConvertsToAbsolutePath_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/home/baeldung/articles.html");
+        assertEquals("E:\\home\\baeldung\\articles.html", p.toAbsolutePath().toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAbsolutePath_whenRetainsAsAbsolute_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p = Paths.get("E:\\home\\baeldung\\articles.html");
+        assertEquals("E:\\home\\baeldung\\articles.html", p.toAbsolutePath().toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenExistingPath_whenGetsRealPathToFile_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        Path p = Paths.get(HOME);
+        assertEquals(HOME, p.toRealPath().toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = NoSuchFileException.class)
+    public void givenInExistentPath_whenFailsToConvert_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        Path p = Paths.get("E:\\home\\baeldung\\articles.html");
+
+        p.toRealPath();
+    }
+
+    // joining paths
+    @Test
+    public void givenTwoPaths_whenJoinsAndResolves_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/baeldung/articles");
+        assertEquals("\\baeldung\\articles\\java", p.resolve("java").toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAbsolutePath_whenResolutionRetainsIt_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/baeldung/articles");
+        assertEquals("C:\\baeldung\\articles\\java", p.resolve("C:\\baeldung\\articles\\java").toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPathWithRoot_whenResolutionRetainsIt_thenCorrect2() throws IOException {
+        Path p = Paths.get("/baeldung/articles");
+        assertEquals("\\java", p.resolve("/java").toString());
+    }
+
+    // creating a path between 2 paths
+    @Test
+    public void givenSiblingPaths_whenCreatesPathToOther_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        Path p1 = Paths.get("articles");
+        Path p2 = Paths.get("authors");
+        assertEquals("..\\authors", p1.relativize(p2).toString());
+        assertEquals("..\\articles", p2.relativize(p1).toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenNonSiblingPaths_whenCreatesPathToOther_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        Path p1 = Paths.get("/baeldung");
+        Path p2 = Paths.get("/baeldung/authors/articles");
+        assertEquals("authors\\articles", p1.relativize(p2).toString());
+        assertEquals("..\\..", p2.relativize(p1).toString());
+    }
+
+    // comparing 2 paths
+    @Test
+    public void givenTwoPaths_whenTestsEquality_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        Path p1 = Paths.get("/baeldung/articles");
+        Path p2 = Paths.get("/baeldung/articles");
+        Path p3 = Paths.get("/baeldung/authors");
+
+        assertTrue(p1.equals(p2));
+        assertFalse(p1.equals(p3));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenInspectsStart_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p1 = Paths.get("/baeldung/articles");
+        assertTrue(p1.startsWith("/baeldung"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenPath_whenInspectsEnd_thenCorrect() {
+        Path p1 = Paths.get("/baeldung/articles");
+        assertTrue(p1.endsWith("articles"));
+    }
+}

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java8/Java8StreamApiUnitTest.java

@@ -27,18 +27,14 @@ public class Java8StreamApiUnitTest {
 
     @Before
     public void init() {
-        productList = Arrays.asList(
+        productList = Arrays.asList(new Product(23, "potatoes"), new Product(14, "orange"), new Product(13, "lemon"), new Product(23, "bread"), new Product(13, "sugar"));
-                new Product(23, "potatoes"), new Product(14, "orange"),
-                new Product(13, "lemon"), new Product(23, "bread"),
-                new Product(13, "sugar"));
     }
 
     @Test
     public void checkPipeline_whenStreamOneElementShorter_thenCorrect() {
 
         List<String> list = Arrays.asList("abc1", "abc2", "abc3");
-        long size = list.stream().skip(1)
+        long size = list.stream().skip(1).map(element -> element.substring(0, 3)).count();
-                .map(element -> element.substring(0, 3)).count();
         assertEquals(list.size() - 1, size);
     }
 
@@ -48,8 +44,7 @@ public class Java8StreamApiUnitTest {
         List<String> list = Arrays.asList("abc1", "abc2", "abc3");
 
         counter = 0;
-        long sizeFirst = list.stream()
+        long sizeFirst = list.stream().skip(2).map(element -> {
-                .skip(2).map(element -> {
             wasCalled();
             return element.substring(0, 3);
         }).count();
@@ -84,7 +79,7 @@ public class Java8StreamApiUnitTest {
         Stream<String> streamOfArray = Stream.of("a", "b", "c");
         assertEquals(3, streamOfArray.count());
 
-        String[] arr = new String[]{"a", "b", "c"};
+        String[] arr = new String[] { "a", "b", "c" };
         Stream<String> streamOfArrayPart = Arrays.stream(arr, 1, 3);
         assertEquals(2, streamOfArrayPart.count());
 
@@ -112,7 +107,7 @@ public class Java8StreamApiUnitTest {
         }
         assertEquals("a", streamOfStrings.findFirst().get());
 
-        Stream<String> streamBuilder = Stream.<String>builder().add("a").add("b").add("c").build();
+        Stream<String> streamBuilder = Stream.<String> builder().add("a").add("b").add("c").build();
         assertEquals(3, streamBuilder.count());
 
         Stream<String> streamGenerated = Stream.generate(() -> "element").limit(10);
@@ -126,8 +121,7 @@ public class Java8StreamApiUnitTest {
     public void runStreamPipeline_whenOrderIsRight_thenCorrect() {
 
         List<String> list = Arrays.asList("abc1", "abc2", "abc3");
-        Optional<String> stream = list.stream()
+        Optional<String> stream = list.stream().filter(element -> {
-                .filter(element -> {
             log.info("filter() was called");
             return element.contains("2");
         }).map(element -> {
@@ -145,15 +139,13 @@ public class Java8StreamApiUnitTest {
         int reducedTwoParams = IntStream.range(1, 4).reduce(10, (a, b) -> a + b);
         assertEquals(16, reducedTwoParams);
 
-        int reducedThreeParams = Stream.of(1, 2, 3)
+        int reducedThreeParams = Stream.of(1, 2, 3).reduce(10, (a, b) -> a + b, (a, b) -> {
-                .reduce(10, (a, b) -> a + b, (a, b) -> {
             log.info("combiner was called");
             return a + b;
         });
         assertEquals(16, reducedThreeParams);
 
-        int reducedThreeParamsParallel = Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3).parallelStream()
+        int reducedThreeParamsParallel = Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3).parallelStream().reduce(10, (a, b) -> a + b, (a, b) -> {
-                .reduce(10, (a, b) -> a + b, (a, b) -> {
             log.info("combiner was called");
             return a + b;
         });
@@ -163,14 +155,12 @@ public class Java8StreamApiUnitTest {
     @Test
     public void collecting_whenAsExpected_thenCorrect() {
 
-        List<String> collectorCollection = productList.stream()
+        List<String> collectorCollection = productList.stream().map(Product::getName).collect(Collectors.toList());
-                .map(Product::getName).collect(Collectors.toList());
 
         assertTrue(collectorCollection instanceof List);
         assertEquals(5, collectorCollection.size());
 
-        String listToString = productList.stream().map(Product::getName)
+        String listToString = productList.stream().map(Product::getName).collect(Collectors.joining(", ", "[", "]"));
-                .collect(Collectors.joining(", ", "[", "]"));
 
         assertTrue(listToString.contains(",") && listToString.contains("[") && listToString.contains("]"));
 
@@ -180,33 +170,26 @@ public class Java8StreamApiUnitTest {
         int summingPrice = productList.stream().collect(Collectors.summingInt(Product::getPrice));
         assertEquals(86, summingPrice);
 
-        IntSummaryStatistics statistics = productList.stream()
+        IntSummaryStatistics statistics = productList.stream().collect(Collectors.summarizingInt(Product::getPrice));
-                .collect(Collectors.summarizingInt(Product::getPrice));
         assertEquals(23, statistics.getMax());
 
-        Map<Integer, List<Product>> collectorMapOfLists = productList.stream()
+        Map<Integer, List<Product>> collectorMapOfLists = productList.stream().collect(Collectors.groupingBy(Product::getPrice));
-                .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(Product::getPrice));
         assertEquals(3, collectorMapOfLists.keySet().size());
 
-        Map<Boolean, List<Product>> mapPartioned = productList.stream()
+        Map<Boolean, List<Product>> mapPartioned = productList.stream().collect(Collectors.partitioningBy(element -> element.getPrice() > 15));
-                .collect(Collectors.partitioningBy(element -> element.getPrice() > 15));
         assertEquals(2, mapPartioned.keySet().size());
 
     }
 
     @Test(expected = UnsupportedOperationException.class)
     public void collect_whenThrows_thenCorrect() {
-        Set<Product> unmodifiableSet = productList.stream()
+        Set<Product> unmodifiableSet = productList.stream().collect(Collectors.collectingAndThen(Collectors.toSet(), Collections::unmodifiableSet));
-                .collect(Collectors.collectingAndThen(Collectors.toSet(),
-                        Collections::unmodifiableSet));
         unmodifiableSet.add(new Product(4, "tea"));
     }
 
     @Test
     public void customCollector_whenResultContainsAllElementsFrSource_thenCorrect() {
-        Collector<Product, ?, LinkedList<Product>> toLinkedList =
+        Collector<Product, ?, LinkedList<Product>> toLinkedList = Collector.of(LinkedList::new, LinkedList::add, (first, second) -> {
-                Collector.of(LinkedList::new, LinkedList::add,
-                        (first, second) -> {
             first.addAll(second);
             return first;
         });
@@ -219,23 +202,20 @@ public class Java8StreamApiUnitTest {
     public void parallelStream_whenWorks_thenCorrect() {
         Stream<Product> streamOfCollection = productList.parallelStream();
         boolean isParallel = streamOfCollection.isParallel();
-        boolean haveBigPrice = streamOfCollection.map(product -> product.getPrice() * 12)
+        boolean haveBigPrice = streamOfCollection.map(product -> product.getPrice() * 12).anyMatch(price -> price > 200);
-                .anyMatch(price -> price > 200);
         assertTrue(isParallel && haveBigPrice);
     }
 
     @Test
     public void parallel_whenIsParallel_thenCorrect() {
-        IntStream intStreamParallel =
+        IntStream intStreamParallel = IntStream.range(1, 150).parallel().map(element -> element * 34);
-                IntStream.range(1, 150).parallel().map(element -> element * 34);
         boolean isParallel = intStreamParallel.isParallel();
         assertTrue(isParallel);
     }
 
     @Test
     public void parallel_whenIsSequential_thenCorrect() {
-        IntStream intStreamParallel =
+        IntStream intStreamParallel = IntStream.range(1, 150).parallel().map(element -> element * 34);
-                IntStream.range(1, 150).parallel().map(element -> element * 34);
         IntStream intStreamSequential = intStreamParallel.sequential();
         boolean isParallel = intStreamParallel.isParallel();
         assertFalse(isParallel);

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/java8/Java8StreamsUnitTest.java

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ public class Java8StreamsUnitTest {
 
     @Test
     public void checkStreamCount_whenCreating_givenDifferentSources() {
-        String[] arr = new String[]{"a", "b", "c"};
+        String[] arr = new String[] { "a", "b", "c" };
         Stream<String> streamArr = Arrays.stream(arr);
         assertEquals(streamArr.count(), 3);
 
@@ -47,14 +47,12 @@ public class Java8StreamsUnitTest {
         assertEquals(count, 9);
     }
 
-
     @Test
     public void checkStreamCount_whenOperationFilter_thanCorrect() {
         Stream<String> streamFilter = list.stream().filter(element -> element.isEmpty());
         assertEquals(streamFilter.count(), 2);
     }
 
-
     @Test
     public void checkStreamCount_whenOperationMap_thanCorrect() {
         List<String> uris = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -65,12 +63,10 @@ public class Java8StreamsUnitTest {
         List<Detail> details = new ArrayList<>();
         details.add(new Detail());
         details.add(new Detail());
-        Stream<String> streamFlatMap = details.stream()
+        Stream<String> streamFlatMap = details.stream().flatMap(detail -> detail.getParts().stream());
-                .flatMap(detail -> detail.getParts().stream());
         assertEquals(streamFlatMap.count(), 4);
     }
 
-
     @Test
     public void checkStreamCount_whenOperationMatch_thenCorrect() {
         boolean isValid = list.stream().anyMatch(element -> element.contains("h"));
@@ -81,7 +77,6 @@ public class Java8StreamsUnitTest {
         assertFalse(isValidTwo);
     }
 
-
     @Test
     public void checkStreamReducedValue_whenOperationReduce_thenCorrect() {
         List<Integer> integers = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -94,20 +89,17 @@ public class Java8StreamsUnitTest {
 
     @Test
     public void checkStreamContains_whenOperationCollect_thenCorrect() {
-        List<String> resultList = list.stream()
+        List<String> resultList = list.stream().map(element -> element.toUpperCase()).collect(Collectors.toList());
-                .map(element -> element.toUpperCase())
-                .collect(Collectors.toList());
         assertEquals(resultList.size(), list.size());
         assertTrue(resultList.contains(""));
     }
 
-
     @Test
     public void checkParallelStream_whenDoWork() {
         list.parallelStream().forEach(element -> doWork(element));
     }
 
     private void doWork(String string) {
-        assertTrue(true); //just imitate an amount of work
+        assertTrue(true); // just imitate an amount of work
     }
 }

core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/threadpool/GuavaThreadPoolIntegrationTest.java

@@ -46,9 +46,7 @@ public class GuavaThreadPoolIntegrationTest {
         ListenableFuture<String> future1 = listeningExecutorService.submit(() -> "Hello");
         ListenableFuture<String> future2 = listeningExecutorService.submit(() -> "World");
 
-        String greeting = Futures.allAsList(future1, future2).get()
+        String greeting = Futures.allAsList(future1, future2).get().stream().collect(Collectors.joining(" "));
-                .stream()
-                .collect(Collectors.joining(" "));
         assertEquals("Hello World", greeting);
 
     }

core-java/src/test/java/org/baeldung/equalshashcode/entities/ComplexClassUnitTest.java

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import java.util.List;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import com.baeldung.equalshashcode.entities.ComplexClass;
+
 public class ComplexClassUnitTest {
 
     @Test

core-java/src/test/java/org/baeldung/equalshashcode/entities/PrimitiveClassUnitTest.java

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package org.baeldung.equalshashcode.entities;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import com.baeldung.equalshashcode.entities.PrimitiveClass;
+
 public class PrimitiveClassUnitTest {
 
     @Test

core-java/src/test/java/org/baeldung/equalshashcode/entities/SquareClassUnitTest.java

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import java.awt.Color;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import com.baeldung.equalshashcode.entities.Square;
+
 public class SquareClassUnitTest {
 
     @Test

httpclient/src/test/java/org/baeldung/httpclient/HttpsClientSslLiveTest.java

@@ -1,36 +1,28 @@
 package org.baeldung.httpclient;
 
-import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.equalTo;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
-import java.security.KeyManagementException;
-import java.security.KeyStoreException;
-import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
-
-import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
-import javax.net.ssl.SSLException;
-
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
 import org.apache.http.conn.ClientConnectionManager;
 import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.Scheme;
 import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.SchemeRegistry;
-import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
+import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.*;
-import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
-import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLContextBuilder;
-import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLContexts;
-import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
-import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.TrustSelfSignedStrategy;
-import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.TrustStrategy;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
 import org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingClientConnectionManager;
+import org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContextBuilder;
+import org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContexts;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
+import javax.net.ssl.SSLException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.equalTo;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+
 /**
  * This test requires a localhost server over HTTPS <br>
  * It should only be manually run, not part of the automated build
@@ -101,17 +93,9 @@ public class HttpsClientSslLiveTest {
     }
 
     @Test
-    public final void givenIgnoringCertificates_whenHttpsUrlIsConsumed_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+    public final void givenIgnoringCertificates_whenHttpsUrlIsConsumed_thenCorrect() throws Exception {
-
+        SSLContext sslContext = new SSLContextBuilder()
-        final TrustStrategy acceptingTrustStrategy = (certificate, authType) -> true;
+          .loadTrustMaterial(null, (certificate, authType) -> true).build();
-
-        SSLContext sslContext = null;
-        try {
-            sslContext = new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(null, acceptingTrustStrategy).build();
-
-        } catch (KeyManagementException | NoSuchAlgorithmException | KeyStoreException e) {
-            e.printStackTrace();
-        }
 
         final CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.custom().setSSLContext(sslContext).setSSLHostnameVerifier(new NoopHostnameVerifier()).build();
         final HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(HOST_WITH_SSL);

jaxb/pom.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+    <artifactId>jaxb</artifactId>
+    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <name>jaxb</name>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jaxb-runtime</artifactId>
+            <version>${jaxb.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jaxb-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${jaxb.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <!-- utils -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.sun.istack</groupId>
+            <artifactId>istack-commons-runtime</artifactId>
+            <version>3.0.2</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+            <version>${logback.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${logback.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <finalName>jaxb</finalName>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+                <filtering>true</filtering>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+
+        <pluginManagement>
+            <plugins>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
+                    <version>1.0.0</version>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <lifecycleMappingMetadata>
+                            <pluginExecutions>
+                                <pluginExecution>
+                                    <pluginExecutionFilter>
+                                        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                                        <artifactId>jaxb2-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                                        <versionRange>[${jaxb2-maven-plugin.version},)</versionRange>
+                                        <goals>
+                                            <goal>schemagen</goal>
+                                            <goal>xjc</goal>
+                                        </goals>
+                                    </pluginExecutionFilter>
+                                    <action>
+                                        <execute />
+                                    </action>
+                                </pluginExecution>
+                            </pluginExecutions>
+                        </lifecycleMappingMetadata>
+                    </configuration>
+                </plugin>
+            </plugins>
+        </pluginManagement>
+
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>1.8</source>
+                    <target>1.8</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <!-- xjc -->
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>jaxb2-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${jaxb2-maven-plugin.version}</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>xjc</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>xjc</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+                <configuration>
+                    <xjbSources>
+                        <xjbSource>src/main/resources/global.xjb</xjbSource>
+                    </xjbSources>
+                    <sources>
+                        <source>src/main/resources/user.xsd</source>
+                    </sources>
+                    <outputDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/java</outputDirectory>
+                    <clearOutputDir>false</clearOutputDir>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+
+            <!-- schemagen -->
+            <!--
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>jaxb2-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${jaxb2-maven-plugin.version}</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>schemagen</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>schemagen</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+                <configuration>
+                    <sources>
+                        <source>src/main/java/com/baeldung/jaxb/gen</source>
+                    </sources>
+                    <outputDirectory>src/main/resources</outputDirectory>
+                    <clearOutputDir>false</clearOutputDir>
+                    <transformSchemas>
+                        <transformSchema>
+                            <uri>http://www.baeldung.com/jaxb/gen</uri>
+                            <toPrefix>user</toPrefix>
+                            <toFile>gen-schema.xsd</toFile>
+                        </transformSchema>
+                    </transformSchemas>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            -->
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <properties>
+        <!-- jaxb -->
+        <jaxb.version>2.2.11</jaxb.version>
+
+        <!-- logging -->
+        <org.slf4j.version>1.7.21</org.slf4j.version>
+        <logback.version>1.1.7</logback.version>
+
+        <!-- maven plugins -->
+        <maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.5.1</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
+        <jaxb2-maven-plugin.version>2.3</jaxb2-maven-plugin.version>
+    </properties>
+
+</project>

jaxb/src/main/java/com/baeldung/jaxb/Book.java

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package com.baeldung.jaxb;
+
+import java.util.Date;
+
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlTransient;
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;
+
+@XmlRootElement(name = "book")
+@XmlType(propOrder = { "id", "name", "date" })
+public class Book {
+    private Long id;
+    private String name;
+    private String author;
+    private Date date;
+
+    @XmlAttribute
+    public void setId(Long id) {
+        this.id = id;
+    }
+
+    @XmlElement(name = "title")
+    public void setName(String name) {
+        this.name = name;
+    }
+
+    @XmlTransient
+    public void setAuthor(String author) {
+        this.author = author;
+    }
+
+    public String getName() {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    public Date getDate() {
+        return date;
+    }
+
+    public void setDate(Date date) {
+        this.date = date;
+    }
+
+    public Long getId() {
+        return id;
+    }
+
+    public String getAuthor() {
+        return author;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "Book [id=" + id + ", name=" + name + ", author=" + author + ", date=" + date + "]";
+    }
+}

jaxb/src/main/java/com/baeldung/jaxb/DateAdapter.java

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package com.baeldung.jaxb;
+
+import java.text.DateFormat;
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters.XmlAdapter;
+
+public class DateAdapter extends XmlAdapter<String, Date> {
+
+    private static final ThreadLocal<DateFormat> dateFormat = new ThreadLocal<DateFormat>() {
+
+        @Override
+        protected DateFormat initialValue() {
+            return new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
+        }
+    };
+
+    @Override
+    public Date unmarshal(String v) throws Exception {
+        return dateFormat.get().parse(v);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String marshal(Date v) throws Exception {
+        return dateFormat.get().format(v);
+    }
+}

jaxb/src/main/java/com/baeldung/jaxb/Main.java

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package com.baeldung.jaxb;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
+import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
+import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;
+import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;
+
+public class Main {
+    public static void marshal() throws JAXBException, IOException {
+        Book book = new Book();
+        book.setId(1L);
+        book.setName("Book1");
+        book.setAuthor("Author1");
+        book.setDate(new Date());
+
+        JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Book.class);
+        Marshaller marshaller = context.createMarshaller();
+        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE);
+        marshaller.marshal(book, new File("./book.xml"));
+    }
+
+    public static Book unMashal() throws JAXBException, IOException {
+        JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Book.class);
+        Unmarshaller unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller();
+        Book book = (Book) unmarshaller.unmarshal(new FileReader("./book.xml"));
+        return book;
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws JAXBException, IOException {
+        marshal();
+        Book book = unMashal();
+        System.out.println(book.toString());
+    }
+}

jaxb/src/main/resources/global.xjb

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<jaxb:bindings version="2.0" xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
+    xmlns:xjc="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb/xjc" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
+    jaxb:extensionBindingPrefixes="xjc">
+
+    <jaxb:globalBindings>
+        <xjc:simple />
+        <xjc:serializable uid="-1" />
+        <jaxb:javaType name="java.util.Calendar" xmlType="xs:dateTime"
+            parseMethod="javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.parseDateTime"
+            printMethod="javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.printDateTime" />
+    </jaxb:globalBindings>
+</jaxb:bindings>

jaxb/src/main/resources/logback.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+
+	<appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+		<layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
+		      <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg %n</pattern>
+	    </layout>
+	</appender>
+
+	<logger name="com.baeldung.hazelcast" level="INFO" additivity="false">
+		<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+  	</logger>
+
+	<root level="DEBUG">          
+		<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+	</root>  
+  
+</configuration>

jaxb/src/main/resources/user.xsd

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://www.baeldung.com/jaxb/gen"
+    xmlns:userns="http://www.baeldung.com/jaxb/gen" elementFormDefault="qualified">
+
+    <element name="userRequest" type="userns:UserRequest"></element>
+    <element name="userResponse" type="userns:UserResponse"></element>
+
+    <complexType name="UserRequest">
+        <sequence>
+            <element name="id" type="int" />
+            <element name="name" type="string" />
+        </sequence>
+    </complexType>
+
+    <complexType name="UserResponse">
+        <sequence>
+            <element name="id" type="int" />
+            <element name="name" type="string" />
+            <element name="gender" type="string" />
+            <element name="created" type="dateTime" />
+        </sequence>
+    </complexType>
+</schema>

junit5/pom.xml

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -14,40 +13,10 @@
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<java.version>1.8</java.version>
-        <!-- Due to a bug in surefire-junit5-5.0.0-ALPHA we use the latest snapshot instead -->
+		<junit.jupiter.version>5.0.0-M2</junit.jupiter.version>
-        <junit.gen5.version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</junit.gen5.version>
+		<junit.platform.version>1.0.0-M2</junit.platform.version>
 	</properties>
 
-    <repositories>
-        <repository>
-            <id>snapshots-repo</id>
-            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
-            <releases>
-                <enabled>false</enabled>
-            </releases>
-            <snapshots>
-                <!-- Do NOT cache JUnit 5 snapshot JARs. -->
-                <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
-                <enabled>true</enabled>
-            </snapshots>
-        </repository>
-    </repositories>
-
-    <pluginRepositories>
-        <pluginRepository>
-            <id>snapshots-repo</id>
-            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
-            <releases>
-                <enabled>false</enabled>
-            </releases>
-            <snapshots>
-                <!-- Do NOT cache JUnit 5 snapshot JARs. -->
-                <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
-                <enabled>true</enabled>
-            </snapshots>
-        </pluginRepository>
-    </pluginRepositories>
-
 	<build>
 		<plugins>
 			<plugin>
@@ -63,9 +32,9 @@
 				<version>2.19</version>
 				<dependencies>
 					<dependency>
-                        <groupId>org.junit</groupId>
+						<groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
-                        <artifactId>surefire-junit5</artifactId>
+						<artifactId>junit-platform-surefire-provider</artifactId>
-                        <version>${junit.gen5.version}</version>
+						<version>${junit.platform.version}</version>
 					</dependency>
 				</dependencies>
 			</plugin>
@@ -74,10 +43,11 @@
 
 	<dependencies>
 		<dependency>
-            <groupId>org.junit</groupId>
+			<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
-            <artifactId>junit5-api</artifactId>
+			<artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
-            <version>${junit.gen5.version}</version>
+			<version>${junit.jupiter.version}</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
+
 	</dependencies>
 </project>

junit5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/AssertionTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package com.baeldung;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.expectThrows;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+public class AssertionTest {
+
+	@Test
+	public void testConvertToDoubleThrowException() {
+		String age = "eighteen";
+		expectThrows(NumberFormatException.class, () -> {
+			convertToInt(age);
+		});
+
+		assertThrows(NumberFormatException.class, () -> {
+			convertToInt(age);
+		});
+	}
+	
+	private static Integer convertToInt(String str) {
+		if (str == null) {
+			return null;
+		}
+		return Integer.valueOf(str);
+	}
+
+}

junit5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/AssumptionTest.java

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 package com.baeldung;
 
-import org.junit.gen5.api.Test;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assumptions.assumeFalse;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assumptions.assumeTrue;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assumptions.assumingThat;
 
-import static org.junit.gen5.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
-import static org.junit.gen5.api.Assumptions.*;
 
 public class AssumptionTest {
 

junit5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/ExceptionTest.java

@@ -1,18 +1,26 @@
 package com.baeldung;
 
-import org.junit.gen5.api.Test;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.expectThrows;
 
-import static org.junit.gen5.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
-import static org.junit.gen5.api.Assertions.expectThrows;
 
 public class ExceptionTest {
 
 	@Test
 	void shouldThrowException() {
-        Throwable exception = expectThrows(UnsupportedOperationException.class,
+		Throwable exception = expectThrows(UnsupportedOperationException.class, () -> {
-                () -> {
 			throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported");
 		});
 		assertEquals(exception.getMessage(), "Not supported");
 	}
+
+	@Test
+	void assertThrowsException() {
+		String str = null;
+		assertThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> {
+			Integer.valueOf(str);
+		});
+	}
 }

junit5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/FirstTest.java

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 package com.baeldung;
 
-import org.junit.gen5.api.Disabled;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
-import org.junit.gen5.api.Test;
 
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import static org.junit.gen5.api.Assertions.*;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 class FirstTest {
 

junit5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/JUnit5NewFeaturesTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+package com.baeldung;
+
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.DisplayName;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+//@RunWith(JUnitPlatform.class)
+public class JUnit5NewFeaturesTest {
+
+	private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(JUnit5NewFeaturesTest.class.getName());
+
+	@BeforeAll
+	static void setup() {
+		log.info("@BeforeAll - executes once before all test methods in this class");
+	}
+
+	@BeforeEach
+	void init() {
+		log.info("@BeforeEach - executes before each test method in this class");
+	}
+
+	@DisplayName("Single test successful")
+	@Test
+	void testSingleSuccessTest() {
+		log.info("Success");
+
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	@Disabled("Not implemented yet.")
+	void testShowSomething() {
+	}
+
+	@AfterEach
+	void tearDown() {
+		log.info("@AfterEach - executed after each test method.");
+	}
+
+	@AfterAll
+	static void done() {
+		log.info("@AfterAll - executed after all test methods.");
+	}
+
+}

junit5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/LiveTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package com.baeldung;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.DynamicTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.TestFactory;
+
+public class LiveTest {
+
+	private List<String> in = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("Hello", "Yes", "No"));
+	private List<String> out = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("Cześć", "Tak", "Nie"));
+
+	@TestFactory
+	public Stream<DynamicTest> translateDynamicTestsFromStream() {
+
+		return in.stream().map(word -> DynamicTest.dynamicTest("Test translate " + word, () -> {
+			int id = in.indexOf(word);
+			assertEquals(out.get(id), translate(word));
+		}));
+	}
+
+	private String translate(String word) {
+		if ("Hello".equalsIgnoreCase(word)) {
+			return "Cześć";
+		} else if ("Yes".equalsIgnoreCase(word)) {
+			return "Tak";
+		} else if ("No".equalsIgnoreCase(word)) {
+			return "Nie";
+		}
+		return "Error";
+	}
+
+}

junit5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/NestedTest.java

@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 package com.baeldung;
 
-import org.junit.gen5.api.*;
-
 import java.util.EmptyStackException;
 import java.util.Stack;
 
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.DisplayName;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Nested;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
 public class NestedTest {
     Stack<Object> stack;
     boolean isRun = false;

junit5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/StringUtils.java

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+package com.baeldung;
+
+public final class StringUtils {
+
+	public static Double convertToDouble(String str) {
+		if (str == null) {
+			return null;
+		}
+		return Double.valueOf(str);
+	}
+}

junit5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/TaggedTest.java

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 package com.baeldung;
 
-import org.junit.gen5.api.Tag;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
-import org.junit.gen5.api.Test;
 
-import static org.junit.gen5.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Tag;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 @Tag("Test case")
 public class TaggedTest {

junit5/src/test/java/com/baeldung/suites/AllTests.java

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+package com.baeldung.suites;
+
+//@RunWith(JUnitPlatform.class)
+//@SelectPackages("com.baeldung")
+//@SelectClasses({AssertionTest.class, AssumptionTest.class, ExceptionTest.class})
+public class AllTests {
+
+}

log-mdc/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+### Relevant Articles:
+- TBD
+
+### References
+
+_Log4j MDC_
+* <https://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/MDC.html>
+* <http://veerasundar.com/blog/2009/10/log4j-mdc-mapped-diagnostic-context-what-and-why/>
+
+_Log4j2 MDC_
+* <https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/thread-context.html>
+
+_Logback MDC_
+* <http://logback.qos.ch/manual/mdc.html>
+
+

log-mdc/pom.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+	<groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+	<artifactId>logmdc</artifactId>
+	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<name>logmdc</name>
+	<description>tutorial on logging with MDC</description>
+
+	<dependencies>
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
+			<version>4.3.3.RELEASE</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
+			<version>4.3.3.RELEASE</version>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<!--log4j dependencies -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>log4j</groupId>
+			<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+			<version>1.2.17</version>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<!--log4j2 dependencies -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+			<artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+			<version>2.7</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+			<artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
+			<version>2.7</version>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<!--disruptor for log4j2 async logging -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.lmax</groupId>
+			<artifactId>disruptor</artifactId>
+			<version>3.3.4</version>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<!--logback dependencies -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+			<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+			<version>1.1.7</version>
+		</dependency>
+		
+		<dependency>
+		    <groupId>junit</groupId>
+		    <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+		    <version>4.12</version>
+		    <scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		
+
+	</dependencies>
+
+</project>

log-mdc/src/main/java/com/baeldung/mdc/TransactionFactory.java

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package com.baeldung.mdc;
+
+import static java.lang.Math.floor;
+import static java.lang.Math.random;
+
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+public class TransactionFactory {
+
+	private static final String[] NAMES = {"John", "Susan", "Marc", "Samantha"};
+	private static long nextId = 1;
+	
+	public Transfer newInstance() {
+		String transactionId = String.valueOf( nextId++ );
+		String owner = NAMES[ (int) floor(random()*NAMES.length) ];
+		long amount = (long) (random()*1500 + 500);
+		Transfer tx = new Transfer(transactionId, owner, amount);
+		return tx;
+	}
+	
+}

log-mdc/src/main/java/com/baeldung/mdc/Transfer.java

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package com.baeldung.mdc;
+
+public class Transfer {
+
+    private String transactionId;
+    private String sender;
+    private Long amount;
+
+    public Transfer(String transactionId, String sender, long amount) {
+        this.transactionId = transactionId;
+        this.sender = sender;
+        this.amount = amount;
+    }
+
+    public String getSender() {
+        return sender;
+    }
+
+    public String getTransactionId() {
+        return transactionId;
+    }
+
+    public Long getAmount() {
+        return amount;
+    }
+
+}

log-mdc/src/main/java/com/baeldung/mdc/TransferDemo.java

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package com.baeldung.mdc;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+
+import com.baeldung.mdc.log4j.Log4JRunnable;
+import com.baeldung.mdc.log4j2.Log4J2Runnable;
+import com.baeldung.mdc.slf4j.Slf4jRunnable;
+
+public class TransferDemo {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+
+        ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(3);
+        TransactionFactory transactionFactory = new TransactionFactory();
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+            Transfer tx = transactionFactory.newInstance();
+            
+            //Runnable task = new Log4JRunnable(tx);
+            //Runnable task = new Log4J2Runnable(tx);
+            Runnable task = new Slf4jRunnable(tx);
+            
+            executor.submit(task);
+        }
+
+        executor.shutdown();
+
+    }
+}

log-mdc/src/main/java/com/baeldung/mdc/TransferService.java

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+package com.baeldung.mdc;
+
+/**
+ * A fake transfer service simulating an actual one.
+ */
+public abstract class TransferService {
+
+    /** Sample service transferring a given amount of money. 
+     * @return {@code true} when the transfer complete successfully, {@code false} otherwise. */
+    public boolean transfer(long amount) {
+        beforeTransfer(amount);
+        // exchange messages with a remote system to transfer the money
+        try {
+            // let's pause randomly to properly simulate an actual system.
+            Thread.sleep((long) (500 + Math.random() * 500));
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            // should never happen
+        }
+        // let's simulate both failing and successful transfers
+        boolean outcome = Math.random() >= 0.25;
+        afterTransfer(amount, outcome);
+        return outcome;
+    }
+
+    abstract protected void beforeTransfer(long amount);
+
+    abstract protected void afterTransfer(long amount, boolean outcome);
+}

log-mdc/src/main/java/com/baeldung/mdc/log4j/Log4JRunnable.java

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+package com.baeldung.mdc.log4j;
+
+import org.apache.log4j.MDC;
+
+import com.baeldung.mdc.Transfer;
+
+public class Log4JRunnable implements Runnable {
+
+    private Transfer tx;
+    private static Log4JTransferService log4jBusinessService = new Log4JTransferService();
+
+    public Log4JRunnable(Transfer tx) {
+        this.tx = tx;
+    }
+
+    public void run() {
+
+        MDC.put("transaction.id", tx.getTransactionId());
+        MDC.put("transaction.owner", tx.getSender());
+
+        log4jBusinessService.transfer(tx.getAmount());
+
+        MDC.clear();
+
+    }
+}

log-mdc/src/main/java/com/baeldung/mdc/log4j/Log4JTransferService.java

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+package com.baeldung.mdc.log4j;
+
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+
+import com.baeldung.mdc.TransferService;
+
+public class Log4JTransferService extends TransferService {
+
+    private Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Log4JTransferService.class);
+
+    @Override
+    protected void beforeTransfer(long amount) {
+        logger.info("Preparing to transfer " + amount + "$.");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void afterTransfer(long amount, boolean outcome) {
+        logger.info("Has transfer of " + amount + "$ completed successfully ? " + outcome + ".");
+    }
+
+}

log-mdc/src/main/java/com/baeldung/mdc/log4j2/Log4J2Runnable.java

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package com.baeldung.mdc.log4j2;
+
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.ThreadContext;
+
+import com.baeldung.mdc.Transfer;
+
+public class Log4J2Runnable implements Runnable {
+    private final Transfer tx;
+    private Log4J2TransferService log4j2BusinessService = new Log4J2TransferService();
+
+    public Log4J2Runnable(Transfer tx) {
+        this.tx = tx;
+    }
+
+    public void run() {
+
+        ThreadContext.put("transaction.id", tx.getTransactionId());
+        ThreadContext.put("transaction.owner", tx.getSender());
+
+        log4j2BusinessService.transfer(tx.getAmount());
+
+        ThreadContext.clearAll();
+
+    }
+}

log-mdc/src/main/java/com/baeldung/mdc/log4j2/Log4J2TransferService.java

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package com.baeldung.mdc.log4j2;
+
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+
+import com.baeldung.mdc.TransferService;
+
+public class Log4J2TransferService extends TransferService {
+
+    private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger();
+
+    @Override
+    protected void beforeTransfer(long amount) {
+        logger.info("Preparing to transfer {}$.", amount);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void afterTransfer(long amount, boolean outcome) {
+        logger.info("Has transfer of {}$ completed successfully ? {}.", amount, outcome);
+    }
+
+}

log-mdc/src/main/java/com/baeldung/mdc/slf4j/Slf4TransferService.java

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+package com.baeldung.mdc.slf4j;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import com.baeldung.mdc.TransferService;
+
+final class Slf4TransferService extends TransferService {
+
+    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Slf4TransferService.class);
+
+    @Override
+    protected void beforeTransfer(long amount) {
+        logger.info("Preparing to transfer {}$.", amount);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void afterTransfer(long amount, boolean outcome) {
+        logger.info("Has transfer of {}$ completed successfully ? {}.", amount, outcome);
+    }
+
+}

log-mdc/src/main/java/com/baeldung/mdc/slf4j/Slf4jRunnable.java

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package com.baeldung.mdc.slf4j;
+
+import org.slf4j.MDC;
+
+import com.baeldung.mdc.Transfer;
+
+public class Slf4jRunnable implements Runnable {
+    private final Transfer tx;
+
+    public Slf4jRunnable(Transfer tx) {
+        this.tx = tx;
+    }
+
+    public void run() {
+
+        MDC.put("transaction.id", tx.getTransactionId());
+        MDC.put("transaction.owner", tx.getSender());
+
+        new Slf4TransferService().transfer(tx.getAmount());
+
+        MDC.clear();
+
+    }
+}

log-mdc/src/main/resources/log4j.properties

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+log4j.appender.consoleAppender=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.consoleAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+
+#note the %X{userName} - this is how you fetch data from Mapped Diagnostic Context (MDC)
+#log4j.appender.consoleAppender.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r [%t] %5p %c{1} %x - %m%n
+log4j.appender.consoleAppender.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r [%t] %5p %c{1} %x - %m - tx.id=%X{transaction.id} tx.owner=%X{transaction.owner}%n 
+
+log4j.rootLogger = TRACE, consoleAppender

log-mdc/src/main/resources/log4j2.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="INFO">
+	<Appenders>
+		<Console name="stdout" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+			<PatternLayout
+				pattern="%-4r [%t] %5p %c{1} - %m - tx.id=%X{transaction.id} tx.owner=%X{transaction.owner}%n" />
+		</Console>
+	</Appenders>
+
+	<Loggers>
+		<Logger name="com.baeldung.log4j2" level="TRACE" />
+
+		<AsyncRoot level="DEBUG">
+			<AppenderRef ref="stdout" />
+		</AsyncRoot>
+	</Loggers>
+</Configuration>

log-mdc/src/main/resources/logback.xml

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+<configuration>
+
+	<appender name="stdout" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+		<encoder class="ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder">
+			<pattern>%-4r [%t] %5p %c{1} - %m - tx.id=%X{transaction.id} tx.owner=%X{transaction.owner}%n</pattern>
+		</encoder>
+	</appender>
+
+	<root level="TRACE">
+		<appender-ref ref="stdout" />
+	</root>
+
+</configuration>

log-mdc/src/test/java/com/baeldung/mdc/log4j/Demo.java

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+package com.baeldung.mdc.log4j;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.baeldung.mdc.TransactionFactory;
+import com.baeldung.mdc.Transfer;
+
+public class Demo {
+
+    @Test
+    public void main() throws InterruptedException {
+        ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(3);
+        TransactionFactory transactionFactory = new TransactionFactory();
+        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+            Transfer tx = transactionFactory.newInstance();
+            Runnable task = new Log4JRunnable(tx);            
+            executor.submit(task);
+        }
+        executor.shutdown();
+        executor.awaitTermination(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+    }
+}

log-mdc/src/test/java/com/baeldung/mdc/log4j2/Demo.java

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+package com.baeldung.mdc.log4j2;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.baeldung.mdc.TransactionFactory;
+import com.baeldung.mdc.Transfer;
+import com.baeldung.mdc.log4j.Log4JRunnable;
+import com.baeldung.mdc.log4j2.Log4J2Runnable;
+import com.baeldung.mdc.slf4j.Slf4jRunnable;
+
+public class Demo {
+
+    @Test
+    public void main() throws InterruptedException {
+        ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(3);
+        TransactionFactory transactionFactory = new TransactionFactory();
+        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+            Transfer tx = transactionFactory.newInstance();
+            Runnable task = new Log4J2Runnable(tx);            
+            executor.submit(task);
+        }
+        executor.shutdown();
+        executor.awaitTermination(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+    }
+}

log-mdc/src/test/java/com/baeldung/mdc/slf4j/Demo.java

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+package com.baeldung.mdc.slf4j;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.baeldung.mdc.TransactionFactory;
+import com.baeldung.mdc.Transfer;
+import com.baeldung.mdc.log4j.Log4JRunnable;
+import com.baeldung.mdc.log4j2.Log4J2Runnable;
+import com.baeldung.mdc.slf4j.Slf4jRunnable;
+
+public class Demo {
+
+    @Test
+    public void main() throws InterruptedException {
+        ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(3);
+        TransactionFactory transactionFactory = new TransactionFactory();
+        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+            Transfer tx = transactionFactory.newInstance();
+            Runnable task = new Slf4jRunnable(tx);            
+            executor.submit(task);
+        }
+        executor.shutdown();
+        executor.awaitTermination(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+    }
+}

log4j2/pom.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <artifactId>log4j2</artifactId>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+        <artifactId>parent-modules</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>..</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <!-- This is the needed core component. -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
+            <version>2.7</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <!-- This is used by JSONLayout. -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+            <version>2.8.4</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <!-- This is used by XMLLayout. -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
+            <version>2.8.4</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <!-- This is used by JDBC Appender. -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
+            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
+            <version>1.4.192</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-dbcp2</artifactId>
+            <version>2.1.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <!-- This is used for testing only. -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
+            <version>2.7</version>
+            <type>test-jar</type>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>4.12</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.5.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>1.8</source>
+                    <target>1.8</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>

log4j2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/logging/log4j2/tests/AsyncFileAppenderUsingJsonLayoutTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package com.baeldung.logging.log4j2.tests;
+
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.junit.LoggerContextRule;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
+
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
+public class AsyncFileAppenderUsingJsonLayoutTest {
+    @Rule
+    public LoggerContextRule contextRule =
+      new LoggerContextRule("log4j2-async-file-appender_json-layout.xml");
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLoggerWithAsyncConfig_shouldLogToJsonFile()
+      throws Exception {
+        Logger logger = contextRule.getLogger(getClass().getSimpleName());
+        final int count = 88;
+        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+            logger.info("This is async JSON message #{} at INFO level.", count);
+        }
+        long logEventsCount = Files.lines(Paths.get("target/logfile.json")).count();
+        assertTrue(logEventsCount > 0 && logEventsCount <= count);
+    }
+}

log4j2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/logging/log4j2/tests/ConsoleAppenderUsingDefaultLayoutTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package com.baeldung.logging.log4j2.tests;
+
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
+
+@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
+public class ConsoleAppenderUsingDefaultLayoutTest {
+    @Test
+    public void givenLoggerWithDefaultConfig_shouldLogToConsole()
+      throws Exception {
+        Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(getClass());
+        Exception e = new RuntimeException("This is only a test!");
+        logger.info("This is a simple message at INFO level. " +
+          "It will be hidden.");
+        logger.error("This is a simple message at ERROR level. " +
+          "This is the minimum visible level.", e);
+    }
+}

log4j2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/logging/log4j2/tests/ConsoleAppenderUsingPatternLayoutWithColorsTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+package com.baeldung.logging.log4j2.tests;
+
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Marker;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.MarkerManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.ThreadContext;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.junit.LoggerContextRule;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
+
+@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
+public class ConsoleAppenderUsingPatternLayoutWithColorsTest {
+    @Rule
+    public LoggerContextRule contextRule =
+      new LoggerContextRule("log4j2-console-appender_pattern-layout.xml");
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLoggerWithConsoleConfig_shouldLogToConsoleInColors()
+      throws Exception {
+        Logger logger = contextRule.getLogger(getClass().getSimpleName());
+        logger.trace("This is a colored message at TRACE level.");
+        logger.debug("This is a colored message at DEBUG level. " +
+          "This is the minimum visible level.");
+        logger.info("This is a colored message at INFO level.");
+        logger.warn("This is a colored message at WARN level.");
+        Exception e = new RuntimeException("This is only a test!");
+        logger.error("This is a colored message at ERROR level.", e);
+        logger.fatal("This is a colored message at FATAL level.");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLoggerWithConsoleConfig_shouldFilterByMarker() throws Exception {
+        Logger logger = contextRule.getLogger("ConnTrace");
+        Marker appError = MarkerManager.getMarker("APP_ERROR");
+        logger.error(appError, "This marker message at ERROR level should be hidden.");
+        Marker connectionTrace = MarkerManager.getMarker("CONN_TRACE");
+        logger.trace(connectionTrace, "This is a marker message at TRACE level.");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLoggerWithConsoleConfig_shouldFilterByThreadContext() throws Exception {
+        Logger logger = contextRule.getLogger("UserAudit");
+        ThreadContext.put("userId", "1000");
+        logger.info("This is a log-visible user login. Maybe from an admin account?");
+        ThreadContext.put("userId", "1001");
+        logger.info("This is a log-invisible user login.");
+        boolean b = true;
+    }
+}

log4j2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/logging/log4j2/tests/FailoverSyslogConsoleAppenderTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package com.baeldung.logging.log4j2.tests;
+
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.junit.LoggerContextRule;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
+
+@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
+public class FailoverSyslogConsoleAppenderTest {
+    @Rule
+    public LoggerContextRule contextRule = 
+      new LoggerContextRule("log4j2-failover-syslog-console-appender_pattern-layout.xml");
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLoggerWithFailoverConfig_shouldLog() throws Exception {
+        Logger logger = contextRule.getLogger(getClass().getSimpleName());
+        logger.trace("This is a syslog message at TRACE level.");
+        logger.debug("This is a syslog message at DEBUG level.");
+        logger.info("This is a syslog message at INFO level. This is the minimum visible level.");
+        logger.warn("This is a syslog message at WARN level.");
+        Exception e = new RuntimeException("This is only a test!");
+        logger.error("This is a syslog message at ERROR level.", e);
+        logger.fatal("This is a syslog message at FATAL level.");
+    }
+}

log4j2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/logging/log4j2/tests/JDBCAppenderTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+package com.baeldung.logging.log4j2.tests;
+
+import com.baeldung.logging.log4j2.tests.jdbc.ConnectionFactory;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.junit.LoggerContextRule;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
+
+import java.sql.Connection;
+import java.sql.ResultSet;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
+public class JDBCAppenderTest {
+    @Rule
+    public LoggerContextRule contextRule = new LoggerContextRule("log4j2-jdbc-appender.xml");
+
+    @BeforeClass
+    public static void setup() throws Exception {
+        Connection connection = ConnectionFactory.getConnection();
+        connection.createStatement()
+          .execute("CREATE TABLE logs(" +
+            "when TIMESTAMP," +
+            "logger VARCHAR(255)," +
+            "level VARCHAR(255)," +
+            "message VARCHAR(4096)," +
+            "throwable TEXT)");
+        //connection.commit();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLoggerWithJdbcConfig_shouldLogToDataSource() throws Exception {
+        Logger logger = contextRule.getLogger(getClass().getSimpleName());
+        final int count = 88;
+        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+            logger.info("This is JDBC message #{} at INFO level.", count);
+        }
+        Connection connection = ConnectionFactory.getConnection();
+        ResultSet resultSet = connection.createStatement()
+          .executeQuery("SELECT COUNT(*) AS ROW_COUNT FROM logs");
+        int logCount = 0;
+        if (resultSet.next()) {
+            logCount = resultSet.getInt("ROW_COUNT");
+        }
+        assertTrue(logCount == count);
+    }
+}

log4j2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/logging/log4j2/tests/RollingFileAppenderUsingXMLLayoutTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package com.baeldung.logging.log4j2.tests;
+
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.junit.LoggerContextRule;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
+
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
+public class RollingFileAppenderUsingXMLLayoutTest {
+    @Rule
+    public LoggerContextRule contextRule =
+      new LoggerContextRule("log4j2-rolling-file-appender_xml-layout.xml");
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenLoggerWithRollingFileConfig_shouldLogToXMLFile() throws Exception {
+        Logger logger = contextRule.getLogger(getClass().getSimpleName());
+        final int count = 88;
+        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+            logger.info("This is rolling file XML message #{} at INFO level.", i);
+        }
+        String[] logEvents = Files.readAllLines(Paths.get("target/logfile.xml")).stream()
+          .collect(Collectors.joining(System.lineSeparator()))
+          .split("\\n\\n+");
+        assertTrue(logEvents.length == 39);
+    }
+}

log4j2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/logging/log4j2/tests/jdbc/ConnectionFactory.java

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package com.baeldung.logging.log4j2.tests.jdbc;
+
+import org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource;
+import org.h2.Driver;
+
+import java.sql.Connection;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+
+public class ConnectionFactory {
+    private interface Singleton {
+        ConnectionFactory INSTANCE = new ConnectionFactory();
+    }
+
+    private BasicDataSource dataSource;
+
+    private ConnectionFactory() {
+        dataSource = new BasicDataSource();
+        dataSource.setDriver(new Driver());
+        dataSource.setUrl("jdbc:h2:mem:db;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1");
+    }
+
+    public static Connection getConnection() throws SQLException {
+        return Singleton.INSTANCE.dataSource.getConnection();
+    }
+}

log4j2/src/test/resources/log4j2-async-file-appender_json-layout.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="WARN">
+    <Appenders>
+        <File name="JSONLogfileAppender" fileName="target/logfile.json">
+            <JSONLayout compact="true" eventEol="true"/>
+            <BurstFilter level="INFO" rate="2" maxBurst="10"/>
+        </File>
+        <Async name="AsyncAppender" bufferSize="80">
+            <AppenderRef ref="JSONLogfileAppender"/>
+        </Async>
+    </Appenders>
+    <Loggers>
+        <Root level="INFO">
+            <AppenderRef ref="AsyncAppender"/>
+        </Root>
+    </Loggers>
+</Configuration>

log4j2/src/test/resources/log4j2-console-appender_pattern-layout.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="WARN" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+    <Appenders>
+        <xi:include href="log4j2-includes/console-appender_pattern-layout_colored.xml"/>
+        <Console name="ConsoleRedAppender" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+            <PatternLayout pattern="%style{%message}{red}%n"/>
+            <MarkerFilter marker="CONN_TRACE"/>
+        </Console>
+        <Console name="ConsoleGreenAppender" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+            <PatternLayout pattern="%style{userId=%X{userId}:}{white} %style{%message}{green}%n"/>
+        </Console>
+    </Appenders>
+    <Loggers>
+        <Logger name="ConnTrace" level="TRACE" additivity="false">
+            <AppenderRef ref="ConsoleRedAppender"/>
+        </Logger>
+        <Logger name="UserAudit" level="INFO" additivity="false">
+            <AppenderRef ref="ConsoleGreenAppender"/>
+            <ThreadContextMapFilter>
+                <KeyValuePair key="userId" value="1000"/>
+            </ThreadContextMapFilter>
+        </Logger>
+        <Root level="DEBUG">
+            <AppenderRef ref="ConsoleAppender"/>
+        </Root>
+    </Loggers>
+</Configuration>

log4j2/src/test/resources/log4j2-failover-syslog-console-appender_pattern-layout.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="WARN" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+    <Appenders>
+
+        <xi:include href="log4j2-includes/console-appender_pattern-layout_colored.xml"/>
+
+        <Syslog name="Syslog" host="localhost" port="514" protocol="TCP" ignoreExceptions="false"/>
+
+        <Failover name="FailoverAppender" primary="Syslog">
+            <Failovers>
+                <AppenderRef ref="ConsoleAppender"/>
+            </Failovers>
+        </Failover>
+    </Appenders>
+    <Loggers>
+        <Root level="TRACE">
+            <AppenderRef ref="FailoverAppender"/>
+        </Root>
+    </Loggers>
+</Configuration>

log4j2/src/test/resources/log4j2-includes/console-appender_pattern-layout_colored.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Console name="ConsoleAppender" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+    <PatternLayout pattern="%style{%date{DEFAULT}}{yellow} [%style{%thread}{white}] %highlight{%-5level}{FATAL=bg_red, ERROR=red, WARN=yellow, INFO=green, DEBUG=cyan, TRACE=blue} %style{%logger{36}}{cyan}:%n[+] %message%n%throwable"/>
+</Console>

log4j2/src/test/resources/log4j2-jdbc-appender.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="WARN">
+    <Appenders>
+        <JDBC name="JDBCAppender" tableName="logs">
+            <ConnectionFactory class="com.baeldung.logging.log4j2.tests.jdbc.ConnectionFactory"
+                               method="getConnection"/>
+            <Column name="when" isEventTimestamp="true"/>
+            <Column name="logger" pattern="%logger"/>
+            <Column name="level" pattern="%level"/>
+            <Column name="message" pattern="%message"/>
+            <Column name="throwable" pattern="%ex{full}"/>
+        </JDBC>
+    </Appenders>
+    <Loggers>
+        <Root level="trace">
+            <AppenderRef ref="JDBCAppender"/>
+        </Root>
+    </Loggers>
+</Configuration>

log4j2/src/test/resources/log4j2-rolling-file-appender_xml-layout.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="WARN">
+    <Appenders>
+        <RollingFile name="XMLLogfileAppender"
+                     fileName="target/logfile.xml"
+                     filePattern="target/logfile-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}-%i.log.gz">
+            <XMLLayout/>
+            <Policies>
+                <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="17 kB"/>
+            </Policies>
+        </RollingFile>
+    </Appenders>
+    <Loggers>
+        <Root level="TRACE">
+            <AppenderRef ref="XMLLogfileAppender"/>
+        </Root>
+    </Loggers>
+</Configuration>

log4j2/src/test/resources/log4j2.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="WARN">
+    <Appenders>
+        <Console name="ConsoleAppender" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+            <PatternLayout pattern="%d [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n%throwable"/>
+        </Console>
+    </Appenders>
+    <Loggers>
+        <Root level="ERROR">
+            <AppenderRef ref="ConsoleAppender"/>
+        </Root>
+    </Loggers>
+</Configuration>

pdf/.gitignore

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+/target/

pdf/pom.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<project
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"
+	xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+	<parent>
+		<groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+		<artifactId>parent-modules</artifactId>
+		<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	</parent>
+	<artifactId>pdf</artifactId>
+	<name>pdf</name>
+	<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+
+	<properties>
+		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+		<maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.5.1</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
+	</properties>
+
+	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>junit</groupId>
+			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+			<version>3.8.1</version>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
+			<artifactId>pdfbox-tools</artifactId>
+			<version>2.0.3</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>net.sf.cssbox</groupId>
+			<artifactId>pdf2dom</artifactId>
+			<version>1.6</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
+			<artifactId>itextpdf</artifactId>
+			<version>5.5.10</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
+			<artifactId>poi</artifactId>
+			<version>3.15</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
+			<artifactId>poi-scratchpad</artifactId>
+			<version>3.15</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.xmlgraphics</groupId>
+			<artifactId>batik-transcoder</artifactId>
+			<version>1.8</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
+			<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
+			<version>3.15</version>
+		</dependency>
+	</dependencies>
+
+	<build>
+		<finalName>pdf</finalName>
+		<resources>
+			<resource>
+				<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+				<filtering>true</filtering>
+			</resource>
+		</resources>
+
+		<plugins>
+
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
+				<configuration>
+					<source>1.8</source>
+					<target>1.8</target>
+				</configuration>
+			</plugin>
+
+		</plugins>
+	</build>
+</project>

pdf/src/main/java/com/baeldung/pdf/PDF2HTMLExample.java

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+package com.baeldung.pdf;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.io.Writer;
+
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+
+import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
+import org.fit.pdfdom.PDFDomTree;
+
+public class PDF2HTMLExample {
+
+	private static final String FILENAME = "src/main/resources/pdf.pdf";
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		try {
+			generateHTMLFromPDF(FILENAME);
+		} catch (IOException | ParserConfigurationException e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+		}
+	}
+
+	private static void generateHTMLFromPDF(String filename) throws ParserConfigurationException, IOException {
+		PDDocument pdf = PDDocument.load(new File(filename));
+		PDFDomTree parser = new PDFDomTree();
+		Writer output = new PrintWriter("src/output/pdf.html", "utf-8");
+		parser.writeText(pdf, output);
+		output.close();
+		if (pdf != null) {
+			pdf.close();
+		}
+	}
+}

pdf/src/main/java/com/baeldung/pdf/PDF2ImageExample.java

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+package com.baeldung.pdf;
+
+import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.ImageType;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.PDFRenderer;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.tools.imageio.ImageIOUtil;
+
+import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public class PDF2ImageExample {
+
+	private static final String FILENAME = "src/main/resources/pdf.pdf";
+	
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		try {
+			generateImageFromPDF(FILENAME, "png");
+			generateImageFromPDF(FILENAME, "jpeg");
+			generateImageFromPDF(FILENAME, "gif");
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+		}
+	}
+
+	private static void generateImageFromPDF(String filename, String extension) throws IOException {
+		PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(new File(filename));
+		PDFRenderer pdfRenderer = new PDFRenderer(document);
+		for (int page = 0; page < document.getNumberOfPages(); ++page) {
+			BufferedImage bim = pdfRenderer.renderImageWithDPI(page, 300, ImageType.RGB);
+			ImageIOUtil.writeImage(bim, String.format("src/output/pdf-%d.%s", page + 1, extension), 300);
+		}
+		document.close();
+	}
+}

pdf/src/main/java/com/baeldung/pdf/PDF2TextExample.java

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+package com.baeldung.pdf;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+
+import org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.io.RandomAccessFile;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
+import org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper;
+
+public class PDF2TextExample {
+
+	private static final String FILENAME = "src/main/resources/pdf.pdf";
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		try {
+			generateTxtFromPDF(FILENAME);
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+		}
+	}
+
+	private static void generateTxtFromPDF(String filename) throws IOException {
+		File f = new File(filename);
+		String parsedText;
+		PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(new RandomAccessFile(f, "r"));
+		parser.parse();
+
+		COSDocument cosDoc = parser.getDocument();
+
+		PDFTextStripper pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
+		PDDocument pdDoc = new PDDocument(cosDoc);
+
+		parsedText = pdfStripper.getText(pdDoc);
+
+		if (cosDoc != null)
+			cosDoc.close();
+		if (pdDoc != null)
+			pdDoc.close();
+
+		PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter("src/output/pdf.txt");
+		pw.print(parsedText);
+		pw.close();
+	}
+
+}