Category Archives: Java EE

How to quickly test connectivity to your Azure Event Hubs for Kafka cluster, without writing any code

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Abhishek

You have a shiny new Kafka enabled broker on Azure Event Hubs and want to quickly test it out without writing cumbersome client (producer and consumer) code. Try out the instructions in this post and you should (hopefully) have everything … Continue reading →

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Screencast: pushing a Java EE app to Oracle Cloud

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Abhishek

Here is a screen cast to show case how you can easily push a Java EE application to Oracle Application Container Cloud from your command line   Overview start with a Java EE 7 Maven archetype — mvn archetype:generate -Dfilter=com.airhacks:javaee7-essentials-archetype modify the code — add a … Continue reading →

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Session @ Oracle Code San Francisco 2017

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Abhishek

Here are the details for my talk @ Oracle Code (a track at JavaOne 2017) – Streaming Solutions for Real time problems (Stream Processing solutions using Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams and Redis) Code (Github) – https://github.com/abhirockzz/accs-ehcs-stream-processing Video Slides Streaming Solutions for … Continue reading →

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New release: REST assured with JAX-RS

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Abhishek

    REST assured with JAX-RS is now updated for JAX-RS 2.1 – a new chapter has been added to cover its new features. You can read it on Gitbook or grab it via Leanpub Cheers!

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Handling custom objects with JAX-RS SSE API

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Abhishek

Information sent using the JAX-RS 2.1 SSE support (in Java EE 8) does not only have to be of String type – it supports Java primitives (Integer , Long etc.), JSON-B & JAX-B annotated types as well as custom objects whose encoding process (Java object to … Continue reading →

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CompletionStage support in server-side JAX-RS

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Abhishek

JAX-RS 2.1 (part of Java EE 8) now supports returning a CompletionStage to mark the request as eligible for asynchronous processing. This is in addition to the AsyncResponse API which has been available since JAX-RS 2.0 (Java EE 7) Even the Client API has … Continue reading →

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JAX-RS 2.1 SSE Client API example using Glassfish 5 on Docker

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Abhishek

Along with the Server API for SSE, JAX-RS 2.1 (part of Java EE 8) also has an equivalent client side API Here is a quick peek – you can grab the project from Github This file contains bidirectional Unicode text … Continue reading →

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Try out JSON-B 1.0, JPA 2.2 using Java EE 8 on Glassfish 5 & Docker

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Abhishek

Glassfish 5 Build 11 is now available – with support for many of the Java EE 8 specifications e.g. JAX-RS 2.1, JPA 2.2, JSON-B 1.0 etc. For more details check out the Aquarium space. This blog covers test driving couple of new additions in this build – … Continue reading →

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CDI (2.0) Async Events

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Abhishek

Glassfish 5 builds for Java EE 8 are rolling along… here is another Docker based example on Github. This time it’s asynchronous events in CDI 2.0 (JSR 365) Steps Just follow the README… just a bunch of docker commands to get … Continue reading →

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Java EE + Debezium

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Abhishek

I just published a post – Debezium test drive. It uses Kafka and Java EE… check it out if this interests you Cheers!

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