Today is a very special day for me. I am pleased to announce that my thoughts around Enterprise Java development made it into a report and has been published by O'Reilly. The "Modern Java EE Design Patterns" mini-book is available for download…
Continue ReadingInstead of writing a blogpost, I should be cleaning and packing. Actually, JavaOne is just around the corner and beside my own two sessions about Apache Camel and the future of integration, I'm really looking forward to the Docker for Java EE developers …
Continue ReadingAnd here is the schedule of all the mini-theater sessions we're going to run on our booth at JavaOne. No signup required. Just drop by and sit in. Make sure to be on time because space is limited. And another plus for showing up early is that you can…
Continue ReadingJust a short tip today, but I was playing around with the all-in-one vm from the OpenShift team and wanted to use the port-forwarding feature for a quick check of a running database. You can use the CLI to forward one or more local ports to a pod. This al…
Continue ReadingA little under a week before I jump on a plane and make my way to San Francisco again. As you might have guessed it is not only because of the beautiful city but because: It's JavaOne time! And we're pretty excited to be there again as Red Hat. We p…
Continue ReadingFrom time to time it is necessary to just take the little effort to think outside the box. This is a good habit for every developer and even if you just spend 10% of your time, with new and noteworthy technology, you will gain experience and broaden your know…
Continue ReadingThe first two parts of this little series introduced you build a tiny JAX-RS service with WildFly Swarm and package it into a Docker image . You learned how to deploy this example to OpenShift and now it is time to scale it up a bit. Why Scaling Is Importa…

I blogged about the simple JAX-RS microservice with WildFly Swarm yesterday. You learned how to build a so called "fat-jar" with Maven and also used the Maven Docker plugin to dockerize our microservice and run it locally on Docker Machine. This wa…

Everybody is talking about microservices these days. And there are plenty of opinions and ideas and very few examples about how to apply those principles on an enterprise level. One thing is for sure, even at conferences just a couple of days ago, I rarely fo…
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