Author: Daniel Bremer-Tonn

Logging with Azure Application Insights – Part 1: Spring-Boot

| Daniel Bremer-Tonn

When developing and running apps inside Microsoft Azure you have to deal with the topics like monitoring and logging. Azure provides a central solution for that question which is Application Insights. AppInsights (for short) is the central hub to get metrics and log data from our applications and let you access these data within the azure portal in an easy and convenient way. While the metric aspect is well documented, how to connect your favorite application logger to AppInsights it is not.

In this blog post we will show you how to enhance your typical Spring-Boot application to have all the logging data send to Azure AppInsights automatically. In a followup post we will show the same for a typical nodejs based application.

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Don’t get trapped into a memory leak using CDI Instance Injection

| Daniel Bremer-Tonn

In one of our recent projects we have encountered some memory leaks using standard JavaEE technologies like CDI and EJBs. Our application in question does a lot of communication using JMS as a transportation layer. To be able to handle different message types dynamically we have used the Instance Injection of CDI. Using that approach with CDI might get your trapped into some memory leak problems like we did, so we would like to share our experiences and what you can do about it.

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Camunda BPM: Test your processes based on plain old java delegates

| Daniel Bremer-Tonn

Motivation

Testing your processes is an important tasks to ensure and validate your expected behaviour of your application. An introduction how to do a proper test automation in process applications can be found the following camunda webinar: https://network.camunda.org/webinars/24

A normal approach for testing your processes is to have your actual service implementation mocked or swapped completely to your own implementation for testing purposes. For CDI based java delegates this is an easy task to do within the camunda BPM test environment.

But if your project does not allow you to rely on your favourite CDI or Spring based environment you have to configure your java delegates for service tasks via class name binding. Unfortunately there seems not to be an out of the box approach to test that kind of configuration easily.

Will will show you how to get use of the great extensibility of the camunda BPM engine to have plain java delegates mocked as easy as their CDI/Spring counterparts.

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Mavenizing Javascript Projects

| Daniel Bremer-Tonn

Installing an automatic build process for your projects is very common today and best practice. In the java world Maven is a very popular build tool and has proven its matureness over the years. In this blog post we will show you the benefits of a Maven build and how we can utilize them for javascript projects. Finally we present two maven archetypes for creating ready to go fully mavenized javascript projects for your first steps.

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Enhance your web application with these two jQuery plugins

| Daniel Bremer-Tonn

In one of our last projects, we built a platform independent desktop client completely based HTML5 for the UI. HTML 5 provides a powerful way to build UI. Coupled with JQuery and H-UBU, we have developed a pretty exciting UI. One of the issues faced during this development was the management of the user interactions:

  • How to report info or error to the user without breaking the interaction flow using the jquery-toastmessage-plugin
  • How to explain to the user, he has to wait a couple of seconds while hard work is done in the background without too much frustration using the jquery-waitingpopup-plugin

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