Genuitec's Blog: Java

Eclipse Neon Android Package Now that Eclipse Neon is just around the corner, I was pleased to see that Eclipse for Android Developers is back. We’ve all waited a long time for it! This package bundles the Andmore-Eclipse Android Tooling—a fork of Google’s ADT (Android Development Tools) plugins … Read More

I always appreciate those “small things” that help me write better code and code faster. Eclipse Neon comes with a great set of those small things right in the Java editor. As a Java developer I can’t help but feel excited about the new features Neon has and … Read More

As a Web App developer, a typical scenario is to implement a log framework such as log4j (Java) or log4php (PHP) into an app. But what if your boss wants to keep track of each error that several apps are throwing across different servers, all in a single log … Read More

Microservices: A “new” conceptIn the last couple of years, we have been hearing a lot about microservices. There is already a lot of valuable (and also not so much) content regarding defining the term and the general concept behind it. The definition is not always enough to fully … Read More

Recently I had to optimize a method that was bottlenecked in one of our applications. Among other things, the method I was optimizing created a file based on a String concatenation. This is a very common task that usually takes a couple of lines along with a try … Read More

IntroductionTwo frameworks have emerged to simplify the development of RESTful web services and applications in Java—Jersey and RESTEasy. These frameworks are two of the most popular implementations of the JAX-RS standard. Both frameworks provide a nice feature set that simplifies the development of REST APIs. Sometimes the implementation is … Read More