While I am still working with standard JEE architectures, I wanted to try out a Javascript frontend connecting to a Java backend in a self-contained application (SCA) for a long time. I am using Angular (at the moment the javascript UI framework with the biggest market share) and Vert.x for a showcase project. Vert.x sets…
During the last couple of days, I had the task to call some rest endpoints for a backend application. So far, so good, so easy… I thought. However, something looked strange, when I tried to get a JWT authorization token, that I needed to perform other rest calls. The company that developed the rest endpoint…
Creating a mircoservice with dropwizard is an easy task. You do some java coding and configure a YAML file to get a running microservice within a short time. The created jar artefact can be started and tested with the common java command. However if you would like to let your service run on a Microsoft…
Dropwizard provides a great infrastructure for creating microservices. Jetty for http, Jersey for Rest, Jackson for JSON, Metrics for metrics and other useful helper libraries can be seen as a “best of breed” approach for developing microservices with the java platform. The usage of CDI in web- and backend applications however has been essential in…