I can't recall when I started doing those end-of-the-year blog-posts. But it became something that I am really looking forward to do. Getting into the mood of looking back at 12 months, 365.242 days, 8765.808 hours and even more seconds. By the average 6.…
Continue ReadingCamel comes with a bunch of features out of the box. One of them is the Swagger integration. Unfortunately, most of the already-there features heavily rely on Spring. But this should not stop us from using them in plain Java EE 7 applications, because it so…
Continue ReadingAnother confirmation came in. JDK.IO will be my first stop in 2015. This is the annual conference of the Danish Java User Group (Java Gruppen) and it has been extended this year. Instead of one day it is going to be a full two day conference. The name is …

Java Mission Control (JMC) enables you to monitor and manage Java applications without introducing the performance overhead normally associated with these types of tools. It uses data which is already getting collected for normal dynamic optimization of the …
Continue ReadingEverybody seems to do Docker these days. And the whole topic gets even more attraction with Microsoft committed to integrate it into Windows. As many middleware developers are running Windows, I thought I give it a try myself and also give some more tips al…
Continue ReadingAdam asked me about that at NetBeans Day in Munich. One part of the JAX-RS Client API isn't fully standardized but still very important looking at today's microservice architectures. I am talking about timeouts here. Adam showed how to set them for Je…

Just three days ago, the team around Thomas Diesler ( @tdiesler ) released the 2.0.0.CR1 version of the WildFly-Camel subsystem it allows you to add Camel Routes as part of the WildFly configuration. Routes can be deployed as part of JavaEE applications. Jav…
Continue ReadingThe NetBeans Dream Team is a community-driven group of highly skilled NetBeans users and contributors. They participate at NetBeans developer events, on mailing lists and developer forums, providing new, interesting and informative content as well as develo…
Continue ReadingTime for another episode in my developer interview series. Yesterday I had the pleasure to talk to Antoine Sabot-Durand ( @antoine_sd ) who is the co-spec-lead of JSR 365 (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java 2.0). Besides working on the CDI specifica…
Continue ReadingToday was NetBeans Day in Munich . I had the pleasure to present one session about the integration of Red Hat's products with my famous IDE. So, I've been talking about WildFly , EAP , Git, OpenShift Online and showed all the different ways optimize …
Continue ReadingThe last blog post about Devoxx and what happened there. Promised. But I really wanted to do this very special developer interview with the team behind the Demo. You already know everything about the technical details behind it and now it it time to let thos…
Continue ReadingOpenShift is the "open hybrid cloud application platform by Red Hat". It comes in different flavors and the most interesting part for most of the things you want to do is the public cloud application development and hosting platform " OpenShift…
Continue ReadingJust a short few days back I was at Devoxx Belgium. For those not in the know. Devoxx Belgium is the premier European java conference and is often referred to as the Java One of Europe. It's a developer centric conference. The folks in attendance are gene…
Continue ReadingDZone made it again. Another one of their famous guides got published yesterday. This time it is all about Enterprise Integration. It contains articles by industry experts and the complete result from a survey of over 500 practitioners and developers which …
Continue ReadingDevoxx is nearly a wrap. Beside the general awesomeness, Stephan and his team launched a new content website to be the number one stop for all topics related to technologies which are relevant for Devoxx attendees. While I've been at GeeCon, Lucy asked me…
Continue ReadingTrip Report: Joker Conf 2014
I am traveling a lot lately and catching up with the trip reports is not easy. One of my favorite trips lately was my visit in St. Petersburg, Russia for Jokerconf . It is one of the most technical and Java centered conferences I've seen in a while. The…
Continue ReadingIf everything went fine, I just got off the stage and ended the demo part of Mike's (@mpiech) demo. We talked a lot about xPaaS . The different pieces of the puzzle that we integrated and about our newest acquisition FeedHenry. I think, that all this is w…
Continue ReadingTrip Report: OpenSlava 2014
I had the pleasure to attend OpenSlava conference in Bratislava last week. It is a one day event which is comparably new and launched last year. This year it grew even bigger and even expanded to another area at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and In…

Welcome to another episode of my developer interviews. It is my pleasure to introduce Matthias Wessendorf ( @mwessendorf , blog ), whom I know since a long time already. We've been working in and around Java EE for quite a while and met again in Red Hat f…

You have heard about the Virtual JBoss User Group before. It is your unique chance to catch up with all kinds of technologies and methodologies presented by well known Redhatters and community members from all around the world. Just a short week ago the vJB…
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