Robin Tegg

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Want to know what changes with Maven 4?

Following on from a previous post about Spring CLI and also Scripting I ventured further into the built-in https://www.jbang.dev/documentation/guide/latest/alias_catalogs.html in order to take a look into how others are putting together collections of JBa…

B(ai)tch from Scratch: Building a Spring AI Project Tutorial In this tutorial we are development team who are going to be integrating an AI model into a chat bot using the Spring AI framework.

🚀 Quick Start with Spring Boot CLI Want to supercharge your Spring Boot development?

Spring Shell alternative to picocli for JBang Libraries such as picocli and Spring Shell make handling command line arguments so much easier than parsing the String[] args parameter of your main function.

NanoHTTPD: Your Tiny, Mighty Web Server in Java (JBang Edition!)

This is a game changing tip for those that use Java Text Blocks in their IntelliJ editors.

Using j2html for rendering web pages with Spring Web MVC Working through the Hypermedia Systems book I've been writing a pure Java implementation of the Contacts app with j2html and Spring Boot.

Mermaid Diagramming Having recently purchased Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques I've been working through the chapters and examples to get into the habit of using the mermaid syntax and diagrams so that I can have a web ready alternative

GitHub - alyssaxuu/flowy: The minimal javascript library to create flowcharts ✨ Mastering the Object Mother · jonasg.io GitHub - bucket4j/bucket4j: Java rate limiting library based on token-bucket algorithm.

As part of an interest piece around using j2html as part of a pure Java approach to web development, I decided to rebuild this site using j2html.

j2html is a fast and fluent Java Html5 builder from the authors of the Javalin web framework.

Spring provides a useful caching abstraction that can be applied to your Spring beans using annotations.

Whilst taking a quick look into the Hilla Web Framework the documentation includes some useful steps for deploying a jar to heroku.

As part of a series of looking at less code options I started to take a look at Hilla from the Vaadin developers.

An approach for a Spring Boot Service Template The problem In my current organisation we have created and continue to create a number of Java projects using Maven and Spring Boot which we need to manage.

I'd prefer less-code over low-code In my current workplace I've had some experience working with a low-code platform called OutSystems which provides a drag'n'drop like experience to building apps.

It's been a year since I wrote a quick series of posts about testing Spring Boot applications with TestContainers.

Why?

Note: Some time has passed since writing this post, once read it maybe worth visiting the Testing Spring Boot applications with TestContainers revisted 2020 post that details some revisions for later versions of Spring Boot and JUnit 5.

Note: Some time has passed since writing this post, once read it maybe worth visiting the Testing Spring Boot applications with TestContainers revisted 2020 post that details some revisions for later versions of Spring Boot and JUnit 5.

Note: Some time has passed since writing this post, once read it maybe worth visiting the Testing Spring Boot applications with TestContainers revisted 2020 post that details some revisions for later versions of Spring Boot and JUnit 5.

Why?

If, like me, you use the https://start.spring.io/ web service to create your new Spring Boot projects, then you may have noticed that the pom file defined an empty relativePath element with accompanying comment.

TL;DR Broad overview of all the considerations that constitute good form design Not technical and easily digestible Includes the why, what and when of best practices based on experience and research 226 pages - 14 Short focussed chapters Why read this boo…

Polacode The Polacode extension can generate screenshots of your code in Visual Studio Code.

Having written a couple of posts with the Hexo static site generator I wanted to start building out my site with extras such as Pocket links and details about my side Projects.

I'm a big fan of including PlantUML diagrams for documentation using Asciidoc and Spring REST docs.

Microsoft recently released a Visual Studio Java extension pack and a Java Test Runner to the Visual Studio Code market place.