I’ve been trying to simplify my tools lately – less reliance on Intelij IDEA and using the command line more and more. At times, I feel like my workflow has sped up because of a .. READ MORE
Handy Gradle Recipes
on November 8, 2017
Getting XML Directly from PostgreSQL
on September 22, 2017
There was a discussion on our company Slack recently about databases and XML, and someone pointed out that PostgreSQL has some nice XML functions. I’m a Postgres fan and knew that it had some XML .. READ MORE
Exciting things in Spring Boot 2
on June 27, 2017
I looked at the release notes for Spring Boot 2.0.0.M1 not expecting a lot of exciting changes but was surprised by some compelling things. There is the usual “deprecated classes are removed” and “Dependency X .. READ MORE
Database Migrations in Flyway
on June 21, 2017
The concept of data migrations has been around for a long time and in the past, they have been projects that are separated from the main project, mostly with SQL script to change the tables, .. READ MORE
Easily Convert from Ant to Gradle
on May 4, 2017
I stumbled onto an old application that hasn’t been touched for many years. The code was honestly well-written but it used Ant (without Ivy) to build. That is cumbersome in this day and age. I .. READ MORE
Camel is closing JPA sessions
on March 9, 2017
So I was writing a simple Camel route where I was fetching a JPA-backed entity on one step and then using it on another. While executing that second step, I got this error: org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: could .. READ MORE
Getting more properties through Spring HATEOAS
on September 16, 2016
HATEOAS is a standard (though they use the word constraint) on a REST-based architecture. The idea is that the client can find out about everything via hyperlinks in the responses. Spring has a good overview .. READ MORE
Using Apache Camel in Grails 3
on June 7, 2016
Grails 2 has a plugin for Apache Camel called Routing but that plugin hasn’t been upgraded to Grails 3 yet. Luckily, Grails 3 is just Spring Boot so we can use the Camel Spring Boot .. READ MORE
Using secondary datasources in Grails 3
on March 9, 2016
Something changed in Grails 3 and how datasources are configured. If you have datasources defined like this: dataSources: dataSource: pooled: true jmxExport: true driverClassName: org.h2.Driver username: sa password: dbCreate: create-drop url: jdbc:h2:mem:devDb;MVCC=TRUE;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE secondary: pooled: true .. READ MORE
Changing the embedded server in Grails 3
on January 7, 2016
I have a pet project that I’ve written in Grails 3. I run it on an already-busy cloud server via the fat jar. I kept the default Tomcat configuration but soon I kept getting out .. READ MORE