Reflectoring

Recent Articles

Spring Boot

Documenting a Spring Data REST API with Springfox and Swagger

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.

Spring Boot

Accessing a Spring Data REST API with Feign

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.

Spring Boot

Handling Associations Between Entities with Spring Data REST

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.

Spring Boot

Serializing LocalDate to JSON in Spring Boot

Tom Hombergs
July 25, 2017

Today, I stumbled (once again) over LocalDate in a Spring Boot application. LocalDate came with Java 8 and is part of the new standard API in Java for working with dates.

Node

Locking transitive Dependencies with NPM

Tom Hombergs
July 24, 2017

As a developer I am lazy. I don’t build everything by myself because others have done it already. So, when I come upon a problem someone has already solved and that someone put that solution into some library, I simply pull that library into my own - I declare a dependency to that library.

Software Craft

A Checklist for setting up a Java-based Software Architecture

Tom Hombergs
May 27, 2017

I recently had the opportunity to propose the architecture for a new large-scale software project. While it’s fun being paid for finding the technologies that best fit to the customer’s requirements (of which only a fraction is available at the time, of course), it may also be daunting having to come up with a solution that is future-proof and scales with expectations.