When upgrading a project’s Mongo driver from 2.13.0 to 3.4.2, we got the following exception: org.bson.codecs.configuration.CodecConfigurationException: can’t find a codec for class java.math.BigDecimal. Well it seems that Mongo doesn’t support BigDecimal any longer. There we .. READ MORE
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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