It's been a while since Kotlin arrived. Kotlin is a JVM language created by JetBrains developed to be interoperate with Java libraries and apis. What draws attention about Kotlin is its simplicity. If you find Java too verbose, you also will be interested in Kotlin because it is possible to transit between both languages easily. Okay then, this post is supposed to be very short, so, let's begin. We are going to build a simple crud app using Spring Boot, specifically Spring Boot Data Rest and use Kotlin (of course)…

Since I didn't find any article explaining how to use the auto configuration to configure Atomikos on SpringBoot, I decided to write this post. I hope it can be useful to someone. ;) Dependencies Assuming you are developing a web application and want to use Atomikos to provide distributed transactions over multiple datasources, you will need only two dependencies: def springBootVersion = 'YOUR_SPRING_BOOT_VERSION_HERE' compile group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-jta-atomikos', version: springBootVersion compile group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-web', version: springBootVersion The application.yml If you are using…

When you create a Java application, you either choose to deploy within an external servlet container/application container or embed a container into your jar. There are developers who still refuse to use embedded containers, some for fear: feeling that somehow their application is going to crash just because it runs directly from a java -jar command (haha), others, well, I don’t know why someone could not prefer to run their applications using a simple terminal command, but, there are other opinions and other views, this post is not…