#tutorials

In this tutorial, Michael Gruczel uses a simple example to show how to set up a REST-based microservice with Spring Boot.

While there is a wealth of documentation around Akka, based on Lightbend’s real-world experience with users and customers over the last few years, they realized that there is a need for tutorial-style tips that focuses on different aspects of Akka. In this post, Hugh McKee focuses on Akka clustering vs. Akka remoting.

In this tutorial, Allice Watson, explains how a String can be converted into an int data type in Java [examples included].

NetBeans Dream Team member Nebrass Lamouchi wrote a tutorial on how to write a Java EE application using Spring Boot and Docker in NetBeans IDE but now it’s time to dive deeper into the topic and experiment with NetBeans IDE 8.2.

In this article, Matt Raible , a web developer and Java Champion, shows you how to build a simple blog application with JHipster 4.0.5.

While Angular CLI is still in beta, most of the developers like the ease of getting started with new projects. In this article, Java Champion Yakov Fain shows you how to create, bundle, and deploy a simple project with Angular CLI.

While the availability of numerous excellent open technologies has enabled us to build products and services faster than ever, there remain problem areas where technologies have yet to fully impact. One of the most challenging areas involves building consistent, fault-tolerant distributed systems.

In this article, Martin Kühl, senior consultant at innoQ, reveals that he occasionally enjoys writing custom command line tools and begins the tutorial with Swift.

Yet another language? That is a good question to ask, especially when the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is host to many languages with proven adoption. While Golo is indeed “yet another JVM language”, it has interesting applications for tinkerers as a standalone language, as an embedded language into other JVM applications, or even for quick prototyping in IoT settings.

In this article, Orlando L. Otero, Sr. Application Engineer at Oracle, explains how to implement integration testing using Spring Boot, Postgres and Docker to pull Docker images, start container(s), run the DAOs-related tests using one or multiple Docker containers and dispose them once the tests are completed.

Radically different, but nonetheless easy — that is the dichotomy the new open source microservice framework Lagom is trying to create. What are the features that differentiate it from other frameworks? How easy is it to handle? What does the name actually mean?

In this article, we shortly summarize the common characteristics of Microservices, talk about the main challenges of building Microservices, and describe how product teams can leverage AWS to overcome those challenges.

Let’s be honest: Deep into the heart of every developer there’s a craving to create a game. You can now learn to do it in JavaFX with the help of the new FX gaming library (FXGL). In this tutorial Almas Baimagambetov is going to create a very basic game.

This tutorial should help you create a Spring Boot microservice that is executed and deployed in a Docker container which can be configured and managed in the same place where we handle the Spring Boot application.