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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

Just – A Command Line Toolkit for Spring Boot Applications

In December last year, freelance software consultant Maciej Walkowiak, who also is the lead developer of Spring Cloud AWS, released just, a command-line toolkit for developing Spring Boot applications. I've been using just since then and I'm extremely happy with this tool and how it has improved my development experience with Spring Boot. Although Spring Boot already provides a more than decent developer experience - especially when it comes to getting up and running quickly and integrating technologies and data sources - compared ...
Sunday February 19th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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Faster Maven Builds With mvnd – A Maven Daemon

Maven is a popular build tool for Java projects. It allows developers to easily manage dependencies, build and test their code, and package it for distribution. However, one downside of Maven is that it can be slow to start up, especially on large projects. This is where the Maven Daemon, or mvnd, comes in. mvnd is a tool that allows Maven to run in the background as a daemon process, rather than as a one-off command. This means that when you run ...
Sunday February 5th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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How to publish a Java library to Maven Central – A Complete Guide By Maciej Walkowiak

Freelance software consultant Maciej Walkowiak (of Just and Spring Cloud AWS fame) has recently published this highly useful guide on "How to publish a Java library to Maven Central". While Maven and its main repository Maven Central certainly is a reliable, safe tool with the requisite infrastructure for managing dependencies for Java software projects, it isn't quite as easy to publish new Maven dependencies as it is for example to publish new npm packages. There's a trade-off here of course (as usually is ...
Sunday January 15th, 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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Revisiting Popular Posts: Spring Batch Resources & Maven Failsafe With Spring Boot

Two of the most popular posts on this blog cover resources for Spring Batch and how to use Maven Failsafe with Spring Boot: Spring Batch Resources: Batch Processing, ETL And Data Conversion Using Maven Failsafe With Spring Boot While doing some regular blog housekeeping, I recently revised those articles and fixed a few broken links. If you're interested in these technologies and frameworks, you might want to check those articles out.
Sunday October 24th, 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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Using Maven Failsafe With Spring Boot

Maven Failsafe is a Maven plugin designed to be used in conjunction with the Maven Surefire Plugin. While the former plugin is intended for running integration tests the latter's purpose is to run unit tests. These plugins are tremendously useful for partitioning tests in Maven-based Java applications in order to make tests and builds run faster. When recently using Maven Failsafe with a Spring Boot application, though, I encountered a somewhat gnarly problem. Running mvn verify caused this error for all of the ...
Sunday December 6th, 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software
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