... and it is time to sit back and relax a bit. It has been exhausting for me on many levels and I tried not to leave any opportunity slip through. It is time to say thanks. I'm thankful for the many people seeing me sessions on conferences around the wor…
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I'm pretty proud to announce that I'll be speaking at the new open source, polyglot conference for application developers and maintainers DevNation 2014. It will be co-located with Red Hat Summit and will offer sessions, labs, and panels geared for th…
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With Java EE 7 out the door since a while it is already time to start planning for the next revision of the platform which will most likely be called Java EE 8. Oracle set up a community survey with which they would like to get input from the community on t…
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I've been invited to talk at the vJUG which is the newest JUG around. A virtual JUG reaching out to interested Java Developers over all time zones and locations. The aim is to get the greatest minds and speakers of the Java industry giving talks and pre…
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We've all heard it coming probably. Yesterday the official roadmap update for JavaEE and GlassFish was updated and published . And beginning with the title the whole post was basically about one thing: GlassFish Server as we know it today is deprecated fr…
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You probably have heard about the new upcoming Java centered conference in Germany next year. JavaLand 2014 will open its gates for two days. So make sure you are around when this new conference will become the hub of the German Java developer scene. I'…
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Another article hit the road today. This time a comprehensive introduction to CapeDwarf which is Red Hat's Google App Engine implementation for AS 7. In German iX Magazine 11/2013. Flexible CapeDwarf tries to bring Google's App Engine to JBo…
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Packt was so kind to send me another book to look at. I've always been curious about testing in general and I was looking for some good stuff to hand to co-workers or otherwise interested people to get started with TestNG. Abstract Unit/Functional te…
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I'm back since a few days already and needed to catch up with all the things which had been on hold for the last couple of days. It was the busiest time of the year for me. A complete week of JavaOne and OpenWorld in San Francisco. A very brief travel rep…
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Once in a while I publish stuff. This one is for my German speaking and reading audience. Latest Java Aktuell isse, which is the mouth piece of German iJUG e.V. has published an article of mine about the new Java EE 7 release. Mobile statt Cloud - Java EE …
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It has been a while since we last heard of this fancy little thing called Mission Control. It came all the way from JRockit and was renamed to Java Mission Control. This is one of the parts which literally survived the convergence strategy between HotSpot and…
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I have many hobbyhorses. Coming all the way from the early Java EE specifications and having done the "cloud" excursion with Java EE 7 I was curious to see what newly announced CapeDwarf project has in stock to bring Google's Platform as a Serv…
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Another book crossed my desk. Following the latest hype around newly WebLogic Server release and Frank Munz's book there is another "recipe" driven administration book from Packt Publishing available. It was published in June this year and conta…
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Another conference announcement. The annual conference of the German Oracle User Group DOAG is ready to accept registrations. The speaker confirmations have been send out and I am happy to say that I will be speaking about the Oracle Cloud Java Service on the…
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Back in May Oracle awarded a Compatibility Testing Scholarship to the Eclipse Foundation. This got some attention in media during the last days and I just wanted to make sure that I shine some light on the whole process and the action in detail. What does l…
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This blog has its fans and I am very thankful for them. But one little drawback always has been that I blog in English. And I like it the way it is. But as a German there is always the need to spread the word out to the German Java Community. And in order …
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Today I finally managed to download my Twitter archive. This nice new features was introduces a while back already but I never really cared about it. But looking back at 5 years, 3 months, 17 days is like doing forensics. And it is good to look back in time t…
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It has been some time since I last read a book about WebLogic. Also the coverage here on the blog has been a little weak in the last few years. Both due to various reasons I can not really talk about. Anyway I still enjoy working with this server and I am alw…
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This blogpost has been sitting on my todo-list since some time. I've seen one of my favorite FOSS advocates Dan Allen working on Awestruct and Aciidoctor it since some time and even some Arquillian guys jumped on the train. Time to find out what the hell…
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