I have been a user of the versions maven plugin for many years but I think I never actually used it to its full potential. Latetly I wanted to control the way updates were resolved when I was invoking 1mvn versions:display-dependency-updates I wanted to get rid of snapshos and all sorts of different naming convensions …

I just lost 1 hour searching, so I am just blogging to raise awareness and provide an extra link to the existing documentation of Micronaut, which I managed to miss, just before my eyes. So I was trying to consume an API (HTTP/JSON) with response text/javascript 1 Content-Type: "text/javascript" I had totally missed …

I guess I am old enough to remember the days when I had to configure Quartz on some old JavaEE application, troubleshoot a failed task maybe (Quartz is a very good library by the way)? Maybe some times it was a @Schedule EJB 3 job? Years go by, and we start getting used of Spring's @Scheduled beans, Micronaut has a …

It is more than certain that the world has already enough APIs and web pages where you can check daily the progress of your country in terms of COVID-19 cases, deaths and other statistics. So this post is not about my API (even though is up there, and I am planning to keep it online, and you are more than welcome to …

It's been years that I have moved over to Gitlab for my personal projects. I still use Github at work and lately I am being intrigued by Github Actions (which kind of came late to the party, but then again it's a really nice feature, much needed). So while on Gitlab, I was wondering what is there for me (free account) …

I have been using Micronaut for the past year. It is always refreshing to learn something new, deep-diving into Micronaut was a nice change. it's a solid framework, I think it has a future and will gain momentum, my guess is that through time will attract a lot of Spring oriented developers. Being an early adopter …

Today we spent half a day, on our first HackTheTower event. Members of London's Java User Group (aka LJC), gathered on the 26th floor of SalesForceTower (aka Heron Tower) at the City of London, invited by: Heather VanCura Mani Sarkar Simon Maple to talk and learn about one Project Jigsaw, Java 9's modular-isation …

It is known that I am not the biggest fan of Spring, but at the time being I work for an organization that maintains too many projects utilizing Spring (in different forms and versions). I still remain skeptic towards Spring, of course there are some very nice ideas, there are some nice (too many) abstractions, there …

In the project which I recently joined, I discovered a set of annotations, (part of the code) that eventually did not add any functionality but they were marking classes or fields as a potential bad implementation, or as a potential case that may need to be reworked. The original author, had created a very elegant way …

One of the projects I follow lately, is Wildfly Swarm. Eventually my request during this year's Devoxx in the JBoss BOF, to consider changing the name of the project, did not go through (due to the conflict with the famous Docker Swarm). So what is Wildfly Swarm? Simply put, is the Wildfly application server (app …