Using GitHub Copilot in IntelliJ IDEA
At the beginning of this month, at AMIS, I attended a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting about GitHub Copilot, given by one of my colleagues. As we do so …
Category: Java
Build JHipster application for and Run on Docker or Podman
For the Open Day we organize shortly for our family, friends, neighbours and other interested parties, my colleagues create a custom web application to support our QR Scavenger Hunt …
Merge AVRO schema and generate random data or Java classes
Previously I wrote about generating random data which conforms to an AVRO schema (here). In a recent use-case, I encountered the situation where there were several separate schema files …
Java: How to validate JSON against an AVRO schema
AVRO schema are often used to serialize JSON data into a compact binary format in order to for example transport it efficiently over Kafka. When you want to validate …
Generate random JSON data from an AVRO schema using Java
Recently I was designing an AVRO schema and wanted to test how data would look like which conformed to this schema. I developed some Java code to generate sample …
SonarCloud: OWASP Dependency-Check reports
SonarCloud is a hosted SonarQube SaaS solution which helps you with code quality management. It is free to use for open source projects. You cannot install 3rd party plugins …
GitHub Actions and SonarCloud
GitHub Actions allow you to do most CI/CD tasks for free, directly from your GitHub repository. One of the challenges however is that there is no build-in facility like …
Java Security: Open Source tools for use in CI/CD pipelines
It is often expected of a DevOps team to also take security into consideration when delivering software. Often however, this does not get the attention it deserves. In this …
Java Agent: Rewrite Java code at runtime using Javassist
You might want to change the behavior of a Java application at runtime without having to alter the original sources and recompile them. This can be done by using …
Jenkins Pipeline: SonarQube and the OWASP Dependency-Check
The OWASP Foundation plays an important role in helping to improve security of software worldwide. They have created a popular and well-known awareness document called the ‘OWASP Top 10‘. …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out Quarkus guide “Quarkus – Kubernetes extension” (part 3)
In this article, you can read more about the Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: The ability to automatically generate Kubernetes resources by Quarkus …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out Quarkus guide “Quarkus – Kubernetes extension” (part 2)
In this article, you can read more about the Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: The ability to automatically generate Kubernetes resources by Quarkus …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out Quarkus guide “Quarkus – Kubernetes extension” (part 1)
In this article, you can read more about the Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: The ability to automatically generate Kubernetes resources by Quarkus …
Jenkins: Building Java and deploying to Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a popular platform to run and manage containerized applications. A CI/CD solution is often needed but not always provided. You might need to set this up for …
My Steps for Getting Started with Java Development on Windows
In this article a brief overview of my steps to set up an environment on my Windows 10 laptop for doing Java programming. If you follow these steps, you …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out some Quarkus code guides (part2)
In this article, you can read more about a Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: Packaging the native executable in a container In a …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out some Quarkus code guides (part1)
In my previous article, I already shared with you the Quarkus code guide “Quarkus – Creating Your First Application”, I tried out, including the hot deployment with background compilation. …
Using Vagrant and shell scripts to further automate setting up my Quarkus demo environment from scratch and trying out a Quarkus code guide
In my previous article, I shared with you the steps I took, to set up a demo environment, so I could get started with Quarkus. In this article, you …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, setting up a demo environment using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox
In November 2019, I attended Devoxx Belgium together with other AMIS colleagues. The yearly gathering of over 3000 Java developers (numbers provided by Devoxx website) were Java and software …
Connect Azure Pipelines with sonarcloud through maven (YAML)
Introduction Sonarcloud is a static code analysis tool. This means that it checks out the code at your repository, does an analysis and shows you the results. It may …
Spring: Blocking vs non-blocking: R2DBC vs JDBC and WebFlux vs Web MVC
Spring Framework version 5, released in Sept 2017, introduced Spring WebFlux. A fully reactive stack. In Dec 2019 Spring Data R2DBC was released, an incubator to integrate relational databases …
The size of Docker images containing OpenJDK 11.0.6
When running Java applications in containers, you need to be careful with your resources. If you’re not careful with layering your images (for example using Google’s Jib), you can quickly …
Performance of relational database drivers. R2DBC vs JDBC
R2DBC provides non-blocking reactive APIs to relational database programmers in Java. It is an open specification, similar to JDBC. JDBC however uses a thread per connection while R2DBC can handle …
Apache Camel + Spring Boot: Different components to expose HTTP endpoints
Apache Camel is an open source integration framework that allows you to integrate technologically diverse systems using a large library of components. A common use-case is to service HTTP based endpoints. …
Java Microservices: What do you need to tweak to optimize throughput and response times?
Performance tuning usually goes something like followed: a performance problem occurs an experienced person knows what is probably the cause and suggests a specific change baseline performance is determined, …
The state of Java [developers] – reflections on Devoxx 2019
I attended Devoxx Belgium – November 2019. The yearly gathering of over 3000 Java developers (numbers provided by Devoxx website). Maybe not all of them Java and perhaps some …
Oracle Database: Write arbitrary log messages to the syslog from PL/SQL
Syslog is a standard for message logging, often employed in *NIX environments. It allows separation of the software that generates messages, the system that stores them, and the software that …
Calling out from Java to JavaScript (with call back) – leveraging interoperability support of GraalVM
Interoperability from Java to JavaScript has been an objective for the Java community for quite a while. With Rhino and later Nashorn, two valiant attempts were made to add …
Calling an Oracle DB stored procedure from Spring Boot using Apache Camel
There are different ways to create data services. The choice for a specific technology to use, depends on several factors inside the organisation which wishes to realize these services. …
Microservice framework startup time on different JVMs (AOT and JIT)
When developing microservices, a fast startup time is useful. It can for example reduce the amount of time a rolling upgrade of instances takes and reduce build time thus …
Apache Camel and Spring Boot: Calling multiple services in parallel and merging results
Sometimes you have multiple services you want to call at the same time and merge their results when they’re all in (or after a timeout). In Enterprise Integration Patterns …
A transparent Spring Boot REST service to expose Oracle Database logic
Sometimes you have an Oracle database which contains a lot of logic and you want to expose specific logic as REST services. There are a variety of ways to …
Performance! 3 reasons to stick to Java 8 for the moment
It is a smart thing to move to newer versions of Java! Support such as security updates and new features are just two of them but there are many …
Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot using an H2 in-memory database and also an external MySQL database
In a previous article, I talked about an environment, I prepared on my Windows laptop, with a guest Operating System, Docker and Minikube available within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. …
Devoxx Belgium 2018, From Developers For Developers
Last November, I attended the Devoxx Belgium 2018 event. In this article I gathered some practical information about the event, and the sessions that were held. Perhaps this gives …
JVM performance: OpenJ9 uses least memory. GraalVM most. OpenJDK distributions differ
In a previous blog post I created a setup to compare JVM performance of several JVMs. I received some valuable feedback on the measures I conducted and requests to …
Comparing JVM performance; Zulu OpenJDK, OpenJDK, Oracle JDK, GraalVM CE
There are many different choices for a JVM for your Java application. Which would be the best to use? This depends on various factors. Performance being an important one. …
Monitoring Spring Boot applications with Prometheus and Grafana
In order to compare the performance of different JDKs for reactive Spring Boot services, I made a setup in which a Spring Boot application is wrapped in a Docker …
Running Reactive Spring Boot on GraalVM in Docker
GraalVM is an open source polyglot VM which makes it easy to mix and match different languages such as Java, Javascript and R. It has the ability (with some …
Java programs as native executables: GraalVM is the answer!
TL;DR: • Using GraalVM Java applications can be compiled into native standalone executables (will be demonstrated). • Native executables of small Java programs startup blazingly fast, use considerably less …