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Getting Started with Java and Zookeeper 1. Overview Apache ZooKeeper is a distributed coordination service which eases the development of distributed applications. It’s used by projects like Apache Hadoop, HBase and others for different use cases like leader election, configuration management, node coordination, server lease management, etc. Nodes within ZooKeeper… Continue Reading java-zookeeper
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Spring Boot Application as a Service 1. Overview This article explores some options of running Spring Boot applications as a service. Firstly, we are going to explain web applications’ packaging options and system services. In the subsequent sections, we explore different alternatives we have when setting up a service for… Continue Reading spring-boot-app-as-a-service
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Building Java Applications with Bazel 1. Overview Bazel is an open-source tool for building and testing source code, similar to Maven and Gradle. It supports projects in multiple languages and builds outputs for multiple platforms. In this tutorial, we’ll go through the steps required to build a simple Java application… Continue Reading bazel-build-tool
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@Timed Annotation Using Metrics and AspectJ 1. Introduction Monitoring is very helpful for finding bugs and optimizing performance. We could manually instrument our code to add timers and logging, but this would lead to a lot of distracting boilerplate. On the other hand, we can use a monitoring framework, driven… Continue Reading timed-metrics-aspectj
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BIRT Reporting with Spring Boot 1. Introduction In this tutorial, we’re going to integrate BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) with Spring Boot MVC, to serve static and dynamic reports in HTML and PDF format. 2. What is BIRT BIRT is an open source engine to create data visualizations that… Continue Reading birt-reports-spring-boot
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Shutdown a Spring Boot Application 1. Overview Managing the lifecycle of Spring Boot Application is very important for a production-ready system. The Spring container handles the creation, initialization, and destruction of all the Beans with the help of the ApplicationContext. The emphasize of this write-up is the destruction phase of… Continue Reading spring-boot-shutdown
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Logging HTTP Requests with Spring Boot Actuator HTTP Tracing 1. Introduction When we work with microservices or web services in general, it’s quite useful to know how our users interact with our services. This can be achieved by tracing all the requests that hit our services and collect this information… Continue Reading spring-boot-actuator-http
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A Quick Guide to Maven Wrapper 1. Overview The Maven Wrapper is an excellent choice for projects that need a specific version of Maven (or for users that don’t want to install Maven at all). Instead of installing many versions of it in the operating system, we can just use… Continue Reading maven-wrapper
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Deploy a Spring Boot App to Azure 1. Introduction Microsoft Azure now features quite solid Java support. In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to make our Spring Boot application work on the Azure platform, step by step. 2. Maven Dependency and Configuration First, we do need an Azure subscription to… Continue Reading spring-boot-azure
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Jetty Configuration in Eclipse 1. Overview Web Applications are one of the most popular use cases of Java. Web Servers and Servlet Containers provide the runtime for deploying applications. Unfortunately, deploying and troubleshooting web applications on Web Servers is at times complicated. Luckily, IDEs have good debugging support for most… Continue Reading jetty-eclipse
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