Java

I’m a big fan of the Camel Java DSL for defining Camel routes with a RouteBuilder. This is super easy and slim. However, in this blog post I show you a nerdy trick how this can be done even more elegant.

Now that some weeks has been passed we all had time to absorb the revised Java EE 8 proposal presented at Java One. As you know, some JSRs remained, some things were added and some stuff was dropped. Java EE Management API 2.0, supposed to be a modern successor of JSR 77, is one of the three JSRs to be dropped. What does this mean for the future of Java EE management and monitoring ?

Recently I gave a Meetup talk for the Docker Munich Meetup Group which explained how Docker can help developers to improve integration tests and to ship applications.

If you have ever sent or received mail messages via Java, chances are high that you have used JavaMail for this task. Most of the time JavaMail does an excellent job and a lot of use cases are described in the JavaMail FAQ. But there are still some additional quirks you should be aware of when doing advanced mail operations like adding or removing attachments (or “Parts”) from existing mails retreived from some IMAP or POP3 store. This post gives a showcase for how to remove an attachment from a mail at an arbitrary level which has been obtained from an IMAP store.