In JDK 9 (and well 8) and above everything can be a stream

In JDK 8 we finally got to use streams and everything was good apart from the times when the API…

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Getting a name for someone to connect back to your server

When doing test automation it is often the case you need to know the name of the current machine in…

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Converting string configuration properties to other types, with a bit of Optional

Somedays you come across some code and think that’s pretty, why didn’t I think of that? So my long time…

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Lambda of Lambda, if/else from an Optional

So I got frustrated with two limitations of the Optional interface in JDK 8. The first problem is that there…

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Creating a shared library for Jersey 2.19 to use with Weblogic 12.1.3

Weblogic server comes with a shared library so you can deploy JAX-RS 2.0 applications; but is limited to Jersey version…

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Per client cookie handling with Jersey

A lot of REST services will use cookies as part of the authentication / authorisation scheme. This is a problem…

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But that’s impossible, or finding out that the JIT has broken your code.

Every now and then you look at some code and think that it cannot be possibly be wrong. Once you…

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Declarative Linking in Jersey 2.9 and up

A couple of weeks ago A couple of months ago I was looking how I was going to engineers new…

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Quick, and a bit dirty, JSON Schema generation with MOXy 2.5.1

So I am working on a new REST API for an upcoming Oracle cloud service these days so one of…

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