diff --git a/apache-beam/README.md b/apache-beam/README.md
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-### Relevant Articles:
-
-- [Introduction to Apache Beam](https://www.baeldung.com/apache-beam)
diff --git a/apache-beam/pom.xml b/apache-beam/pom.xml
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-
- 4.0.0
-
-
- com.baeldung
- parent-modules
- 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
-
-
- com.baeldung.apache
- apache-beam
- 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
-
-
-
- org.apache.beam
- beam-sdks-java-core
- ${beam.version}
-
-
-
- org.apache.beam
- beam-runners-direct-java
- ${beam.version}
- runtime
-
-
-
- org.assertj
- assertj-core
- ${assertj.version}
- test
-
-
-
-
- 2.19.0
- 3.6.1
-
-
-
diff --git a/apache-beam/src/main/java/com/baeldung/apache/beam/intro/WordCount.java b/apache-beam/src/main/java/com/baeldung/apache/beam/intro/WordCount.java
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-package com.baeldung.apache.beam.intro;
-
-import java.util.Arrays;
-
-import org.apache.beam.sdk.Pipeline;
-import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.TextIO;
-import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptions;
-import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptionsFactory;
-import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.Count;
-import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.Filter;
-import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.FlatMapElements;
-import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.MapElements;
-import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.KV;
-import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.PCollection;
-import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.TypeDescriptors;
-
-public class WordCount {
-
- public static boolean wordCount(String inputFilePath, String outputFilePath) {
- // We use default options
- PipelineOptions options = PipelineOptionsFactory.create();
- // to create the pipeline
- Pipeline p = Pipeline.create(options);
- // Here is our workflow graph
- PCollection> wordCount = p
- .apply("(1) Read all lines", TextIO.read().from(inputFilePath))
- .apply("(2) Flatmap to a list of words", FlatMapElements.into(TypeDescriptors.strings())
- .via(line -> Arrays.asList(line.split("\\s"))))
- .apply("(3) Lowercase all", MapElements.into(TypeDescriptors.strings())
- .via(word -> word.toLowerCase()))
- .apply("(4) Trim punctuations", MapElements.into(TypeDescriptors.strings())
- .via(word -> trim(word)))
- .apply("(5) Filter stopwords", Filter.by(word -> !isStopWord(word)))
- .apply("(6) Count words", Count.perElement());
- // We convert the PCollection to String so that we can write it to file
- wordCount.apply(MapElements.into(TypeDescriptors.strings())
- .via(count -> count.getKey() + " --> " + count.getValue()))
- .apply(TextIO.write().to(outputFilePath));
- // Finally we must run the pipeline, otherwise it's only a definition
- p.run().waitUntilFinish();
- return true;
- }
-
- public static boolean isStopWord(String word) {
- String[] stopwords = {"am", "are", "is", "i", "you", "me",
- "he", "she", "they", "them", "was",
- "were", "from", "in", "of", "to", "be",
- "him", "her", "us", "and", "or"};
- for (String stopword : stopwords) {
- if (stopword.compareTo(word) == 0) {
- return true;
- }
- }
- return false;
- }
-
- public static String trim(String word) {
- return word.replace("(","")
- .replace(")", "")
- .replace(",", "")
- .replace(".", "")
- .replace("\"", "")
- .replace("'", "")
- .replace(":", "")
- .replace(";", "")
- .replace("-", "")
- .replace("?", "")
- .replace("!", "");
- }
-
-}
diff --git a/apache-beam/src/test/java/com/baeldung/apache/beam/intro/WordCountUnitTest.java b/apache-beam/src/test/java/com/baeldung/apache/beam/intro/WordCountUnitTest.java
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-package com.baeldung.apache.beam.intro;
-
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
-
-import org.junit.Ignore;
-import org.junit.Test;
-
-import com.baeldung.apache.beam.intro.WordCount;
-
-public class WordCountUnitTest {
-
- @Test
- // @Ignore
- public void givenInputFile_whenWordCountRuns_thenJobFinishWithoutError() {
- boolean jobDone = WordCount.wordCount("src/test/resources/wordcount.txt", "target/output");
- assertTrue(jobDone);
- }
-
-}
diff --git a/apache-beam/src/test/resources/wordcount.txt b/apache-beam/src/test/resources/wordcount.txt
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-We've all heard the scare stories about North Korea: the homemade nuclear arsenal built while their people starve and then aimed imprecisely at the rest of the world, a
-leader so deluded he makes L Ron Hubbard look like a man excessively overburdened with self-doubt and their deep-seated belief that foreign capitalists will invade at any
-moment and steal all their bauxite.
-The popular portrayal of this Marxist nation is something like one of the more harrowing episodes of M*A*S*H, only with the cast of wacky characters replaced by twitchy,
-heavily armed Stalinist meth addicts
-Cracked would like to take a moment to celebrate the good things about North Korea though, the things that the country's enemies prefer to suppress as part of their politically
-motivated jealousy. Like how no different to you and me, there's nothing every North Korean likes more after an 18 hour shift at the phosphorus plant than a nice beer to go with
-his dried fish ration. Ever attentive to its people's needs and in the twinkling of a decade, North Korea's leadership bought, disassembled, transported and rebuilt a British
-brewery in order to discover and reproduce the secrets of beer and then brew the sweet nectar for its hardworking people, up to 18 bottles at a time. And with minimal fatalities.
-When was the last time YOUR leader got a beer for YOU, American? (NB do not answer this question if you are Henry Louis Gates).
-Or how about the fried chicken restaurant that downtown Pyongyang boasts? Yes real chicken, fried and then delivered to your sleeping cube, with optional beer if you like! You
-don't even have to remove the feathers or pull out the gizzard yourself. Mostly. Americans must eat their fried chicken from a bucket, like swine, sold by a company so secretive
-that even the very blend of seasoning used is intentionally kept from them. And they call North Korea paranoid?
-And how many nations would entertain the syphilitic, bourgeois ramblings of Bill Clinton let alone permit him anywhere near their proud womenfolk? Only wise Kim Jong Il could see
-past Bill's many, many imperfections and treat him with the pity and kindness he deserves, accepting his feeble pleas to pardon the American spies rightly convicted of photographing
-the nation's sensitive beetroot fields.