Tom Hombergs
As a professional software engineer, consultant, architect, general problem solver, I've been practicing the software craft for more than fifteen years and I'm still learning something new every day. I love sharing the things I learned, so you (and future me) can get a head start. That's why I founded reflectoring.io.
Articles by Tom Hombergs
Event Messaging for Microservices with Spring Boot and RabbitMQ
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Tom Hombergs
- September 16, 2017
In a microservice environment or any other distributed system you may come upon the requirement to exchange events between services. This article shows how to implement a messaging solution with RabbitMQ.
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A Guide to Formatting Code Snippets in Javadoc
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Tom Hombergs
- August 14, 2017
Sometimes you want to add code snippets to our Javadoc comments, especially when developing an API of some kind. But how do you mark the code snippet so that it will be rendered correctly in the final Javadoc HTML, especially when special characters like '<', '>' and '@' are involved?
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Consumer-Driven Contracts with Pact, Feign and Spring Data REST
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Tom Hombergs
- August 9, 2017
When thinking about integration testing in a distributed system, you quickly come across the concept of consumer-driven contracts. This blog post gives a short introduction into this concept and a concrete implementation example using the technologies Pact, Spring Boot, Feign and Spring Data REST.
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Documenting a Spring Data REST API with Springfox and Swagger
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Tom Hombergs
- August 2, 2017
With Spring Data REST you can rapidly create a REST API that exposes your Spring Data repositories and thus provides CRUD support and more.
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Accessing a Spring Data REST API with Feign
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Tom Hombergs
- July 31, 2017
Spring Data REST is a framework that automatically exposes a REST API for Spring Data repositories, thus potentially saving a lot of manual programming work.
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Handling Associations Between Entities with Spring Data REST
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Tom Hombergs
- July 30, 2017
Spring Data Rest allows to rapidly create a REST API to manipulate and query a database by exposing Spring Data repositories via its @RepositoryRestResource annotation.
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