‘java.lang.System.getProperty()’ is a common API used by Java developers to read the System properties that are configured during application startup time. i.e. when you pass “-DappName=buggyApp” as your application’s startup JVM argument, the value of the ‘appName’ system property can be read by invoking the ‘java.lang.System.getProperty()’. Example: public static String getAppName() { String app = System.getProperty("appName"); return app; } When ...

Langium is a language engineering tool designed to help create DSLs and low code platforms: you can quickly create DSLs with Langium. Langium is lightweight, based on Visual Studio Code and allows you to create a language and an editor in one step. In this article we are going to take a look at this new tool and create an ...

Today, there are many smartphone users in the world and so is the popularity of mobile apps. In order to be competent, mobile apps have to be unique and provide the best user experience to increase the user base. With the users getting more informed and intelligent, the apps built should keep up with the pace. In order to be ...

KivaKit Microservices   KivaKit is designed to make coding microservices faster and easier. In this blog post, we will examine the kivakit-microservice module. As of this date, this module is only available for early access via SNAPSHOT builds and by building KivaKit. The final release of KivaKit 1.1 will include this module and should happen by the end of October, ...

Do you ever encounter perfection rules when you write (or create in any way)? Maybe you’ve heard these statements—or you’ve said them to yourself: We must spend a lot of time “polishing” to create perfect writing.We must not publish until the work is perfect.We can create a perfect piece and it’s worth our time to do so. I wish I ...

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Here we go, JDK-17, the next LTS release, just became generally available. It is an important milestone for the OpenJDK for years to come but sadly, Project Loom, the most anticipated improvement of the JVM platform, was not able to make it, despite the extraordinary progress being made. Well, if you are still on JDK-8, like the majority of us, ...

This is a short write-up on using Google Cloud Deploy for Continuous Deployment of a Java-based project.  Google Cloud Deploy is a new entrant to the CD space. It facilitates a continuous deployment currently to GKE based targets and in future to other Google Cloud application runtime targets. Let’s start with why such a tool is required, why not an ...

When it comes to web automation testing, the first automation testing framework that comes to mind undoubtedly has to be the Selenium framework. Selenium automation testing has picked up a significant pace since the creation of the framework way back in 2004. Developers and the QA community hail open-source frameworks like Selenium, since it has a huge community and supports ...