Spring Boot and Spring Cloud are relatively newer additions to the Spring portfolio. Boot makes it faster to spin up your project with less configuration (and an opinionated programming model). Spring Cloud brings in techniques and tools to efficiently standup distributed applications. In a previous blog I had noted my ramblings on API/Microservices style. If you take that path and have more than a handful of API’s then you will need some of the capabilities of what Spring Boot and Spring Cloud offer.
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Experimenting with Ganglia to monitor my nodes. More detailed steps to come.

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Highly experienced & passionate technologists have a challenging task in terms of figuring out their career strategies. For some this process of self discovery and adjustment works itself out quick, but for others its a harder journey. A passionate technologist often feels the need to be exposed to new cutting edge technologies and at the same time expects appropriate career growth and recognition.

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Experiments with Mongodb, Nodejs, Express and Mongoose.

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Updated the Spring Batch series of blogs with Spring Framework 3.1.0.RELEASE and Spring Batch 2.1.8.RELEASE. Also switched to using HSQLDB to simplify the requirements to run this example (vs. the previous dependency on MySQL).

• Spring Batch – Part I – Simple Tasklet – Read from a comma separated file and insert 200k rows into a HSQLDB database.
• Spring Batch – Part II – Flat File To Database – Read from a comma separated file and insert 200k rows into a HSQLDB database.
• Spring Batch – Part III – From Database to Flat File – Read back the 200K rows and now write it out to a new file.

Started moving my blog code to GitHub. It feels so much better having all that up there in GitHub land. Will move as much code as possible to GitHub in the days ahead and add links to the Git repository in the the blogs.

Link to my GitHub – https://github.com/thomasma

Nov 1st 2012: Minor updates including instructions on how to deploy this to the open source PaaS Cloudfoundry.

Modified the previous blog entry to work with Apache CXF instead of Jersey. Made modifications to the spring configuration XML to configure CXF as the restful service engine. The Maven pom.xml file was modified to include CXF libraries. Download the code from GitHub – https://github.com/thomasma/jaxrs-cxf-springsec.

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This post adds security to my previous RESTful services example code. The changes are quite simple and I will only highlight them here. As usual the full Maven project and a Java client test class is available for you to explore.

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