Blog Posts

Setting up Storm cluster server on Azure

This document describes on how to configure a Storm cluster on a set of Ubuntu servers. This guide describes the process on the Azure platform, there are a few specifics, inhouse servers are configured simular. You might think we do it like this, well I wanted te experiance to setup a cluster in the real world. Azure provides a Storm cluster with a few clicks but thats another story. So you are planning to use Storm on Azure, just take the short cut and select HDInsight from the [Azure management console] 5 and

Arquillian 101

Since the intruduction of CDI in java a lot has changed. For personally i started to move away from spring applications. As a result the testing became less obvious, but Arquillian came to the rescue.

Using XML catalogs for your JAX-WS generated code

• Pieter van der Meer
• Maven , Java , Jax ws

The latest JAX-WS standards make the implementation of a webservice a breeze. lately i needed to implement a client from which a WSDL is available. That proces is simple, but the client has issues when starting, the WSDL defined in the generated code is not available. In this post i describe a (the) solution to overcome this.

Created my own mashup of Ghost themes

• Pieter van der Meer
• Ghost , Theme , HTML , Css

As some may have noticed the look and feel of my site has changed quite a bit.

How to shoot yourself in the foot!

• Pieter van der Meer
• Java , Fun

For Java: After importing java.awt.right.foot.* import java.awt.gun.right.hand.* And writing the classes and methods of those classes needed, you’ve forgotten what the hell you’re doing.

Using JAXB and JAX-WS for service with custom headers

• Pieter van der Meer
• Java , Jax ws

Since the introduction of the JAX-WS in Java EE building SOAP web-services have never been easier (as compared to i.e. Spring WS). Just a few annotations and you are up and running. Disadvantage of this all is that it always goes from a Contract first or Java first approach. While in a lot of environments this is the case, situations are there when its a mixed case.

Forgot your password in RemoteNG?

• Pieter van der Meer
• Howto , Tools

Since I always have problems with remembering passwords and do like to generate those password managers are a bliss!

Getting_Started with Java ME (2)

• Pieter van der Meer
• Java , Me

In the previous post I started out happy on enrolling with the Embedded course from Oracle. But i got hit in the face for not running a Windows-based development environment. A well installing a VirtualBox is not that hard i thought. To be honest it is once you figured out all the specifics.

Getting_Started with Java ME

• Pieter van der Meer
• Java , Me

Just recently I showed interest for the oracle class for Java Embedded. Since I always had an interest for hardware and similar things I thought this is an opportunity. Getting the hardware imposed to be a problem. The preferred supplier could not deliver the goods in any reasonable time frame, or at least I was told so by a colleague. But my employer arranged a study group. They even supplied us with the required hardware.

Java EE Producer for application configuration

• Pieter van der Meer
• Java , Cdi , Ee

Since the introduction of Java CDI container my focus is on building applications without the usage of any Spring libraries. It’s not that I do not like Spring, but since CDI I don’t really need a heavy weight DI container in my application anymore. When looking at EE 7 even more of the stuff that is provided by Spring comes out of the box.