REST API Evolution

In one way or another, every developer has come in touch with an API. Either integrating a major system for…

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Development Horror Story – Release Nightmare

Everyone has good stories about releases that went wrong, right? I’m no exception and I have a few good ones…

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My most useful IntelliJ IDEA keyboard shortcuts

Are you looking for ways to be more productive? It shouldn’t be a secret that performing actions using the keyboard…

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Java EE 7 Batch Processing and World of Warcraft – Part 2

Today, I bring you the second part to my previous post about Java EE 7 Batch Processing and World of…

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SSL / TLS REST Server – Client with Spring and TomEE

When building a system, developers usually disregard the security aspects. Security has been always something very important to worry about,…

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Annotations, Annotations Everywhere

Annotations became available with Java 1.5 in 2004, ten years ago. It’s hard to imagine our code without this feature.…

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JPA Entity Graphs

One of the latest features in JPA 2.1 is the ability to specify fetch plans using Entity Graphs. This is…

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Development Horror Story – Mail Bomb

Based on my session idea at JavaOne about things that went terrible wrong in our development careers, I thought about…

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Configure JBoss / Wildfly Datasource with Maven

Most Java EE applications use database access in their business logic, so developers are often faced with the need to…

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