Series Previous Post, Next Post We have just defined, our parent pom. A special type of pom that eventually defines the libraries that our application is going to use. It also configures all the maven tools used in order to package each module of our application. You can check out the part -1 sample code here. So up …

Series Next post Why ? Many times, I am trying to resolve several basic or complex Maven / Java EE project structure issues, on my day work. In order to provide the solutions, I often end up experimenting with the project structure, test my deployment on different application servers and fine grain my configuration. …

Ο φίλος @dikouv μου πάσαρε ένα ωραίο site το οποίο κάνει ένα page load analysis, παρόμοια με αυτή που μπορεί να κάνει το Developer Tools του firefox, το pingdom.com. Response times, load times, assets loaded και size. Μιας και είμαι στον χώρο, τον τελευταίο χρόνο, είπα να κάνω ένα απλοϊκό test, για τα load times των …

A quick one, you are a Java Developer and you may not still code towards JDK8 on your project but you would like your IDE or tools to make use of the all new stuff this new version of the jdk & jre brings. I assume you use the latest Eclipse version which currently is Kepler 4.3.2 . Step 1: Install JDK 8 for …

I am writing this post as a tip and warning rather than an absolute solution. I will try to come back with a workaround for my case (WebSphere 8.5.5), but I am sure that other developers and applications will be affected. I've lost some time trying to figure out the cause of the problem, so for the time being this post …

Last week, I visited my beloved Belgium, Ghent specifically, for this year's Oracle Community Leaders summit. A 2 day mini conference that aims to bring together, community leaders of various kinds within the Oracle Technology _universe'. This was my second Jug/Leaders summit, the previous one was a couple of years ago …

Wow, that was fast and smooth. It seems that OCZ has done a very good job on providing support tools for Mac users. I don't know if that was the case in the previous years but I just flashed the latest firmware to my Vertex 3 SSD in 10 seconds, rebooted and I am up and running again! All you need is actually go through …

It's been a long day and here I am after a long walk to the Antwerp docks, back to my hotel room blogging about my first conference date, for the university phase of Devoxx 2012. Registration . Early start in the morning, since I wanted to be on time for pre-registration and welcome package handling. Eventually all …

For the last 3 weeks or so, I have been using BitBucket to privately host one of my late night coding experiments, along with my friend and co-jug leader Panos. It is a private git/mercurial repository service and it's been around for a while, it is also free to use with a limit of 5 user accounts per repository. The …

Eventually, I still spend most of my professional time, developing Enterprise Java Applications that are heavily dependent on mainstream RDBM(es) (Oracle, MySQL etc) and designed based on the Relational DB paradigm/ data modelling. My exposure to systems and technologies like Hadoop or other NoSQL specific DB systems …