Well I needed to kill some time during this strange intermission period between jobs. My original 1-hour hack (less than 100 lines of code), evolved to something more flexible and useful (I hope so). Eventually my father is very happy now, instead of 1 newspaper summary he now receives He was also kind enough, to email …

Recently I stumbled upon several articles and examples of this handy library called JSoup, and I wanted to give it a try. It was a good opportunity to play and experiment around with CSS Selectors. My main need was a family request. My father is a captain for the trade navy. He still travels around the oceans in big …

While developing and evolving a REST API, using Java EE, there are some cases where you would like to have a look on the incoming HTTP request, specifically the header params, in a more fine grained (per case) way, rather than a Servlet Filter or the more specific ContainerRequestFilters . One potential way, which I …

Lately, I have been considering using Swagger (core and it's related maven plugin) for one project, in order to provide some REST API documentation. Despite the fact, that Swagger is indeed a very powerful library, doable to integrate on your JAXRS 2.0 code base and the maven plugin works at the end of the day I think …

Series it's been a long time since my last post, for this series of tutorials. it's time to resume and add new features on our simple project. As I have mentioned in previous posts, this series of posts is targeting mostly Maven and JavaEE7 newcomers, I welcome any questions or comments (and fixes) on the contents …

Well tested code is a concept that many developers talk about every day, lots of great authors write books and articles around it, several tools are being developed that aim to help developers to do it faster and efficiently. Despite all the above, testing is something like a lost art, many development teams ignore …

Like many of you out there, I am working with a multi module Maven project. It is not a huge one comparing to many systems out there, it has 15 modules, with 3 different ear deployments, lots of parametrization with property files and around 100K lines of Java code. During peak development times, the code is heavily …

This is not something I invented or discovered on my own, with this post I just want to raise the awareness of this major missing point IMHO in standard Websphere 8.5.5 configuration (and it's fix) and post about it, so it can be indexed and people can find the solution easily, rather than spend countless hours trying …

Series Previous Post, Next Post In the previous post (num 6) we discovered how we can unit test our JPA2 domain model, using Arquillian and Wildfly 8.1 In the previous post we made a simple configuration decision, we used the internal H2 database that is bundled with Wildfly 8.1 and the already configured Datasource …

This post is mostly targeted to Java developers working on the financial sector, especially with systems that need to do payments and specifically using the IBAN/BIC standard. So today I was browsing through some legacy code, that was performing some sort of validations on String representations of IBAN accounts. I …