Software Development

Well, I’ve recently gone to the “silver” side and acquired a MacBook Pro to use it for development when I…

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Run java web apps in embedded containers with Maven, Jetty and Tomcat

While developing java web applications is very practical to have quick feedback from a “real” environment. In this post I’ll…

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Is IntelliJ IDEA shining through Eclipse?

As a long time Eclipse user, I want to give a more serious look to IntelliJ IDEA. The people from…

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Yet another Java 8 Lamdbas and Streams example

I’ve been lagging behind with what Java 8 features exercising concerns, so in this post I will briefly present my initial…

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How to secure Jersey REST services with Spring Security and Basic authentication

In my previous blog post, Quick way to check if the REST API is alive – GET details from Manifest…

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Quick way to check if the REST API is alive – GET details from Manifest file

There might be cases when you want to quickly verify if your REST API, that is deployed either on dev, test…

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How to integrate Jersey in a Spring MVC application

I have recently started to build a public REST API with Java for Podcastpedia.org and for the JAX-RS implementation I…

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How to test a REST api from command line with curl

If you want to quickly test your REST api from the command line, you can use curl. In this post…

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How to compress responses in Java REST API with GZip and Jersey

There may be cases when your REST api provides responses that are very long, and we all know how important transfer…

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