If you’ve used Spring Data JPA or FlywayDB for SQL generation, the next step is to use JPA and FlywayDB together for robust DB creation and migration work. JPA is great for entities. FlywayDB is great for writing more complex SQL statements and data population. If you have the bright idea like I did to combine […]
Java
Jolt – How to Augment JSON APIs By Using Transformations
I was recently introduced to a new library called Jolt (https://github.com/bazaarvoice/jolt). Jolt performs JSON transformations which allows a developer to convert from one JSON structure to another JSON structure using a transformation mapping (created using JSON) and not having to write code. This is pretty amazing for Java applications as it avoids having to call […]
Spring Boot for Rapid Application Development
Building Java applications using Spring Framework is pretty common. Spring creates repositories, service layers, and controllers for all exposed entities. Unfortunately, these classes are generally repetitive. Spring Roo tried to cut the overhead by automating this. Sadly, the use of AspectJ convoluted things devaluing the approach. Spring Boot Spring Boot removes a lot of the […]