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As part of the Jakarta EE Quickstart Tutorials on YouTube, I've now created a five-part series to create a Jakarta ...
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With the presence of Docker, Kubernetes and cheaper hardware, the deployment model of multiple applications inside one application server has ...
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With the past KotlinConf 2019 a lot of great updates for the Kotlin ecosystem were announced. Sebastian Aigner gave an ...
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I was recently wasting time and energy to get the CI pipelines for my two main GitHub repositories working with ...
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Recently I got the chance to review Vlad Mihalcea's Hypersistence Optimizer. It... checks your JPA and Hibernate mappings and provides ...
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Read about my latest YouTube series: Jakarta EE Quickstart Guides. It targets both Jakarta EE newcomers and experienced developers to ...
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Given the latest release of Payara, we can now officially use it with Java 11 and Jakarta EE. I'm using ...
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Alongside the WebClient, Spring provides a WebTestClient for testing purposes. The API of this class is similar to the WebClient ...
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With this blog post, you'll get a tutorial on how to start using Kotlin for Spring Boot Maven application. I ...
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Short feedback cycles during development are essential for your productivity. If you practice TDD you'll agree on this even more ...
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In one of my previous blog posts, I demonstrated how to write integration tests with Spring Boot and Testcontainers. As ...
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Integration tests for your Jakarta EE application are essential. Testing the application in a full setup will ensure all of ...
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In one of my previous blog posts, I gave an example of how to configure the Spring WebClient for OAuth2 ...
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If your application has real-time requirements like within a chat, the WebSocket technology might be a good fit. With WebSockets, ...
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With OAuth2 being the current de-facto authorization framework, a lot of vendors use it to secure their APIs. Furthermore, you ...
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Detecting vulnerabilities inside your dependencies is crucial for creating secure applications. Besides that, static code analysis tools and pre-defined rules ...
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Manually creating a new Maven project is cumbersome. Most companies have a set of shared libraries (e.g. security) and pre-defined ...
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In one of my previous blog posts, I showed you what you need to create your first Jakarta EE 8 ...
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Almost one year after the release of Spring Boot 2.1, we get a new release: Spring Boot 2.2. The Spring ...
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The third MicroProfile release of 2019 is now available: MicroProfile 3.1. With the last release of MicroProfile 3.0 in June, ...
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As now all major application server vendors are Jakarta EE 8 certified, we are ready to start a new era ...
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Dependency Injection (DI) is one of the central techniques in today's applications and targets Separation of concerns. Not only makes ...
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When it comes to creating an application with Java (now Jakarta) EE, the first specification you usually get in touch ...
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The REST architectural pattern is widely adopted when it comes to creating web services. The term was first introduced by ...
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Besides binding and converting JSON from an to Java objects with JSON-B, the Java EE specification (now Jakarta EE) offers ...
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JSON is the current de-facto data format standard for exposing data via APIs. The Java ecosystem offers a bunch of libraries ...
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As Jakarta EE 8 was now finally released on the 10th of September 2019, we can start using it. This ...
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With the current trend to build distributed-systems, it is increasingly important to build fault-tolerant services. Fault tolerance is about using ...
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In today's microservice architectures security is usually based on the following protocols: OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and SAML. These main security ...
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In a distributed system your services usually communicate via HTTP and expose REST APIs. External clients or other services in ...
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Tracing method calls in a monolith to identify slow parts is simple. Everything is happening in one application (context) and ...
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Exposing REST endpoints usually requires documentation for your clients. This documentation usually includes the following: accepted media types, HTTP method, ...
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Once your application is deployed to production you want to ensure it's up- and running. To determine the health and ...
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Ensuring a stable operation of your application in production requires monitoring. Without monitoring, you have no insights about the internal ...
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Injecting configuration properties like JDBC URLs, passwords, usernames or hostnames from external sources is a common requirement for every application. Inspired ...
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With continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) your changes and features are usually deployed to production whenever your pipeline passes ...
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The precise and clean style of writing code with Kotlin is tempting as a Java developer. In addition, switching to ...
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Telegram is widely adopted as a messenger app and a good alternative to WhatsApp. With Telegram, you are not limited ...
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When it comes to certification I'm usually a bit skeptical. Achieving a certificate for the sake of getting a formal ...
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Once your Spring Boot application is ready for deployment, you'll have to find an environment to deploy to.  Over the ...
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Once your new prototype is ready for a first demo, you usually need some data to present. If you already ...
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If you have cross-cutting concerns for several parts of your application you usually don't want to copy and paste the ...
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I've recently published my first article on dev.to about how to deploy a React application to Kubernetes in 5 easy ...
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In one of my recent blog posts, I presented Spring's WebClient for RESTful communication. With Java EE we can utilize ...
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Kubernetes is currently the de-facto standard for deploying applications in the cloud. Every major cloud provider offers a dedicated Kubernetes ...
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I've recently worked through Tim Buchalka's Learn Programming Academy Kotlin for Java Developers Udemy course and want to give you ...
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RESTful communication is the de-facto standard for interchanging data in a microservice-based environment. Usually, every participating microservice offers different parts ...
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With the MicroProfile release cycle of three releases every year in February, June, and October we got MicroProfile 3.0 on ...
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Sending emails to your application's clients or customers is a common enterprise use case. The emails usually contain invoices, reports ...
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Today I want to share with you my first YouTube series about CRUD application with Spring Boot 2.2, Java 11 ...
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Calling other services and getting data is essential in a microservice-based architecture. Besides the downtime of the other service, a ...
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Local development on your machine is easy. But once you deploy your application you have a quite different environment. This ...
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In one of my previous blog posts, I showed you a simple way to load-test your application with Apache Benchmark ...
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..With the release of PrimeFaces 7.0 (JSF component library) in March 2019, the PrimeTek team introduced over 500 improvements featuring new ...
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.Messaging is a key concept for distributed enterprise applications. There are a lot of use cases, where you don't want ...
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In my latest blog post, I demonstrated a solution for up- and downloading files with Jersey (JAX-RS 2.1) on Payara ...
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In one of my last blog post, I showed you how to upload and download files with React and Spring ...
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Java SE 9 has been released in September 2017, three years after the Java SE 8 release from Oracle. The ...
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Manually applying your database schema is cumbersome and error-prone. Fortunately, there are technologies for version-controlling your database scripts to automate ...
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Recently I've read the book SQL Performance Explained from Markus Winand (@MarkusWinand) and want to give you a review of ...
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As a Java/Jakarta EE developer, we can rely on the javax standards to work on every certified application server in ...
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With Red Hat announcing Quarkus as a ... next-generation Kubernetes native Java Framework tailored for GraalVM and HotSpot, crafted from ...
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The PostgreSQL RDBMS offers a great variety for writing server-side functions and with PostgreSQL 11 now also stored procedures. PostgreSQL comes with a ...
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The productivity of your developers is crucial for the success of your project. Without fast deployments and short feedback-cycles about ...
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Generating documents for e.g. invoices or reports is a central use case for enterprise applications. As a Java developer, you ...
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Testing your application's performance during development as a single user is easy but often misleading. With writing unit- and integration-tests ...
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In addition to my blog post #HOWTO: Up- and downloading files with React and Spring Boot, I want to show ...
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I published my first article on Medium about a developer habit I started one year ago. To improve my personal ...
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Recently I got the chance to work through Vlad Mihalcea's High-Performance Java Persistence Video Course (Version: Mach 2) and in this blog ...
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Recently I was looking for a simple solution to generate visual documentation of the underlying database. The solution should be ...
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For securing your enterprise applications you have several choices that require different configuration setups. Lately, the stateless approach is the ...
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Bootstrapping a new JSF can be quite cumbersome if you are new to Java EE. Even after weeks of training, ...
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.Returning all the data in a table within a REST call can be slow if your table grows. Imagine a ...
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Recently Andy Wilkinson (@ankinson) from the Spring Boot core team announced the release of Spring Boot 2.1. During the last days, ...
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From the 19th to 21st of October 2018 the Hackathon Digital Tech Summit took place in Nuremberg as part of ...
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Writing good unit tests for your central business logic is essential. Both to speed up your development and have confident ...
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Manually creating a new Java EE Maven project can be quite cumbersome. Creating all required folders and files for a ...
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Recently Baeldung announced to increase the price of his REST with Spring's course from $ 249 to $ 299. As ...
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Recently I had to convert generated .docx files to .pdf files for more convenient distribution. The Word documents contained some ...
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Lately, I had the requirement to generate Word documents from specific templates and fill them dynamically with data. For this ...
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Today I want to share a simple approach for up- and downloading files with JavaScript (ES6), React and a Spring Boot ...
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Recently I had the requirement for rate-limiting access to specific JAX-RS endpoints and to keep track of the user's current ...
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For messaging, I have always thought of Apache Kafka as the central solution for messaging. While learning more about Java ...
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Securing your web application can be cumbersome. I recently tried to secure a JSF 2.3 application with the latest Java EE 8 ...
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As my last blog post about a short intro to JavaServer Faces 2.3 got a lot of attention (my tweet ...
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.Scrolling through my news feed on Twitter I get flooded with new releases of npm modules and more and more ...
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In today's post, I want to review the latest technical Java book I read. I came across the book "Java by Comparison" ...
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From July 10th to the 11th I took part in the Hackathon HACK|BAY which was organized by the tech incubator ...
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In the last weeks, I was searching for a nice solution to send emails to users for one of my ...
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While I was scrolling through my twitter feed I noticed a post about the new Open Liberty 18.0.0.2 release on ...
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Modeling your domain model with JPA is quite easy and for a smaller amount of data, you can easily rely ...
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Today I want to show you a way to avoid repeating the same attributes in your JPA entities over and ...
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Today I'll show you a way to write integration tests for your Spring Boot based application with a real database ...
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In today's #HOWTO blog post I want to show you a way to expose Git information (like commit hash, commit ...
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In today's #REVIEW post I want to review one of my latest Java books: Effective Java. I was looking for a ...
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Today I want to inform you about one of my latest milestones as a software developer and convince you that ...
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In today's #WHAT IS? blog post I want to present you one of my latest learning experiences: Spring Cloud Config ...
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You are using the awesome Atom editor from GitHub and working with this editor on several machines?  You don't want ...
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Welcome to my first article in the #REVIEW genre. Today I want to give you a review about a React ...
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Welcome to my first article for my genre #WHAT IS?. Today I'll show you how I started to appreciate the ...
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From the 14th to the 16th of November I visited the Container Conf 2017 in Mannheim. This conference focussed on ...
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Welcome to my blog about software development. I am a twenty-four years old software developer and living in Germany. As ...
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