In my current project we are rewriting a feature-packed Struts application into a single page web app using Backbone and Bootstrap. The need for architectural patterns is becoming more and more evident as the application grows and we realize how many different ways you can use Backbone to do the [...]
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Tags: Backbone, RequireJS, web applications
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One of the last days in my current project I was about to freeze the codebase and finish things up. Luckily, I had a couple of hours left to play around with something that I have been thinking about throughout the project but never had time to implement. My mission was to deploy the application [...]
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Speed is the key. I often need a web server in order to run a web application I developed to try things out. Setting up this infrastructure can often be quite tedious but if the only thing you need is a servlet container I often use the approach described in this article. We start out [...]
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Soi-toolkit and the upcoming Mule Studio (currently in beta) are two tools that simplify development of services and integrations based on Mule ESB. This article describes how these two tools complement each other to make the development even more simplified (and fun ☺).
First a short introduction of the two tools and then an illustrated test [...]
Tags: mule, soi-toolkit
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In a recent project, I was assigned to setup monitoring of a set of web services. The idea was to call the web services every 5th minute and check whether they operated normally or not, i.e a valid SOAP response was returned. The web services used SSL Mutual Authentication to authenticate the calling client. Since I [...]
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Soi-toolkit adds value to the leading open source Mule ESB. Its makes it very easy to start building integrations and services.
You get projects setup including tests all based on Maven. You also get support for logging, property handling, WSDL and XML Schema creation and much more.
So how do you get started ? The Soi-toolkit website contains [...]
Tags: mule, soi-toolkit
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This article covers how to setup your standard Eclipse environment with plugins from SpringSource for developing Groovy and Grails applications without using the full SpringSource Tool Suite.
Background
It is more and more common that we see other languages than Java running on the JVM. One such language is Groovy which together with the Ruby on Rails [...]
Tags: eclipse, grails, groovy, springsource tool suite
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Background
How many databases/schemas does your project use ? One common setup is to have one for each staging environment (development, test, customer, education, qa, production) and one for each developer and tester in the project. Maybe you even need a set of schemas free to use for anyone at special occasions. If the application is [...]
Tags: database, liquibase
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In fast evolving projects you are most certain to find some kind of technical debt. As architects and developers we are always looking for the best mix of flexibiltiy, clarity and maintainability in our code base. To maintain the quality of the code most project have a set of coding standards and architectural guidelines which [...]
Tags: sonar, technical debt
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Getting back from one year off demands some effort to get started on a whole new computer.
I installed Eclipse and then installed the subclipse plugin to connect to Subversion through the “Install new software” in Eclipse. No problems. My code was already checkout on disk and created as Eclipse project with maven and imported as [...]
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