Continuous Delivery Patterns: Building your application inside a Docker container
11/16/16
Let me be clear: This post is not about building a Docker container for your application – it is about... Read more
Posts by Tobias Flohre
Event Driven Microservices with Spring Cloud Stream
04/05/16
Lately I’ve been much into event driven architectures because I believe it’s the best approach for microservices, allowing for much... Read more
Bounded Contexts and data duplication in action: adding a shop system to the movie database
04/27/15
It seems that ‘Bounded Context’ (from Eric Evans’ Domain Driven Design) has become one of the terms that have to... Read more
Self-Contained Systems and ROCA: A complete example using Spring Boot, Thymeleaf and Bootstrap
01/12/15
This post is about architectural concepts for web applications – self-contained systems (SCS) and resource-oriented client architecture (ROCA) – and... Read more
Enterprise Java Batch: Challenges and solutions
12/01/14
In the previous blog post we looked at a best practice architecture for Java Batch applications that is running successfully... Read more
Enterprise Java Batch: A best practice architecture
11/24/14
More and more companies are doing their batch processing in Java these days – but how do you do it... Read more
Boot your own infrastructure – Extending Spring Boot in five steps
11/17/14
Writing your own Spring Boot Starter can be a very reasonable thing to do – not every technology is covered... Read more
spring-boot-starter-batch-web 1.3.0 released
11/12/14
Java batch is becoming a hot topic in enterprise environments these days, but how do you do it the right... Read more
Writing JSR-352 style jobs with Spring Batch Part 2: Dependency injection
09/02/14
Spring Batch 3.0 supports writing and running batch jobs that comply with the JSR-352 specification, which is the standard for... Read more
Writing JSR-352 style jobs with Spring Batch Part 1: Configuration options
08/26/14
Spring Batch 3.0 supports writing and running batch jobs that comply with the JSR-352 specification, which is the standard for... Read more
spring-boot-starter-batch-web 1.2.0 released
08/19/14
Java batch is becoming a hot topic in enterprise environments these days, but how do you do it the right... Read more
Five Spring features that I miss in the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE)
05/19/14
During the last years you could read a lot about the rise of the Java Enterprise Edition and the fall... Read more
Enterprise-ready production-ready Java batch applications powered by Spring Boot
05/13/14
This post introduces a new project we set up – our own Spring Boot starter for Spring Batch: spring-boot-starter-batch-web. Spring... Read more
Spring Batch: BatchStatus state transitions
04/03/14
Have you ever been wondering what it means that your job has ended in UNKNOWN state? Or why your job... Read more
10 criteria for choosing the right implementation of the JSR-352 (Java Batch)
12/05/13
As you might already know, the JSR-352 is the standardization effort for batch processing in Java. It has been released... Read more
Batch processing and the Java Enterprise Edition (JSR-352, JEE7, Spring Batch)
11/28/13
The JSR-352 (Batch Applications for the Java platform) has been released and included in JEE7 over half a year ago,... Read more
Spring One Wrap-up: Spring Batch, Spring Hadoop and Spring XD
09/16/13
Here it comes, the second part of my Spring One wrap-up, this time not from sunny California but from rainy... Read more
Spring One Wrap-up: Spring Boot and Spring IO
09/12/13
Today’s the last day of Spring One in Santa Clara, California, the biggest conference on the Spring eco system, and... Read more
Spring Batch and JSR-352 (Batch Applications for the Java Platform) – Differences
07/29/13
JSR-352 is final and included in JEE7, the first implementation is available in Glassfish 4. JSR-352 takes over the programming... Read more
Spring Batch 2.2 – JavaConfig Part 6: Partitioning and Multi-threaded Step
07/08/13
Finally, last part of the blog series! Today we’ll have a quick look at scaled batch jobs, done via partitioning... Read more
Spring Batch 2.2 – JavaConfig Part 5: Modular configurations
06/30/13
When adding more jobs to an ApplicationContext, you will soon run into problems with the naming and the uniqueness of... Read more
Spring Batch 2.2 – JavaConfig Part 4: Job inheritance
06/23/13
One important feature in XML is the possibility to write abstract job definitions like these: <job id="abstractJob" abstract="true"> <listeners> <listener... Read more
Spring Batch 2.2 – JavaConfig Part 3: Profiles and environments
06/16/13
This is the third post about the new Java based configuration features in Spring Batch 2.2. In the first post... Read more
Spring Batch 2.2 – JavaConfig Part 2: JobParameters, ExecutionContext and StepScope
06/09/13
This is the second post about the new Java based configuration features in Spring Batch 2.2. In the first post... Read more
Spring Batch 2.2 – JavaConfig Part 1: A comparison to XML
06/02/13
This is the first part of a series on Java based configuration in Spring Batch. Spring Batch 2.2 will be... Read more
Monitoring Spring Batch with AppDynamics
04/28/13
When running Spring Batch in production it’s always good to keep an eye on performance. And in pre-production it’s helpful... Read more
A real ROCA using Bootstrap, jQuery, Thymeleaf, Spring HATEOAS and Spring MVC
01/20/13
There’s now a newer post about the same topic at Self-Contained Systems and ROCA: A complete example using Spring Boot,... Read more
A RESTful learning curve: nouns, verbs, HATEOAS and ROCA
11/25/12
I really don’t claim to be a REST expert, but I learned a few things during the last months that... Read more
Spring Dependency Injection Styles – Why I love Java based configuration
07/22/12
I must admit, when looking at Spring 3.0’s feature list for the first time I didn’t see one thing I... Read more
Transactions in Spring Batch – Part 3: Skip and retry
03/30/12
This is the third post in a series about transactions in Spring Batch, you find the first one here, it’s... Read more
Transactions in Spring Batch – Part 2: Restart, cursor based reading and listeners
03/25/12
This is the second post in a series about transactions in Spring Batch, you find the first one here, it’s... Read more
Transactions in Spring Batch – Part 1: The Basics
03/21/12
This is the first post in a series about transactions in Spring Batch, you find the second one here, it’s... Read more
A business component architecture with Spring 3.0/3.1 – Part 3: Properties
02/11/12
This is the third post in a series describing a business component architecture using Spring 3.0/3.1 features like Java based... Read more
A business component architecture with Spring 3.0/3.1 – Part 2: Resources
02/05/12
This is the second post in a series describing a business component architecture using Spring 3.0/3.1 features like Java based... Read more
A business component architecture with Spring 3.0/3.1 – Part 1: Structure
01/30/12
This is the first post in a series describing a business component architecture using Spring 3.0/3.1 features like Java based... Read more
SWT and Spring’s @Configurable – Dependency Injection for the UI
12/16/11
Given the following technology stack: – Java frontend with the Standard Web Toolkit (SWT), started via Java Web Start. –... Read more
Google App Engine Persistence – Generic repositories with Objectify
10/11/11
Google’s App Engine is a platform as a service (PAAS) offered by Google. Any servlet-based web application can be deployed... Read more