What is Docker? Docker is a platform. Docker runs natively on Linux or on OS X and Windows through a helper application called boot2docker that creates a Linux Virtual Machine, by using only RAM, to run Docker. Docker‘s main goal … Continue reading →

Hello Javier, Your registration is confirmed for the webinar… We are looking forward to having you join us. To help maximize your webinar experience we recommend that you join a test meeting before the session to check your system and … Continue reading →

Spark Introduction Apache Spark is a cluster computing platform designed to be fast, expresive, high level, general-purpose, fault-tolerante and compatible with Hadoop (Spark can work directly with HDFS, S3 and so on). Spark can also be defined as a framework … Continue reading →

Hadoop Introduction Hadoop is an open source framework for distributed fault-tolerant data storage and batch processing. It allows you to write applications for processing really huge data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming model with linear scalability on … Continue reading →

I love good software, and Orika is a really interesting project. In this post I’m going to talk about this Java bean mapping framework that I’ve used recently and I highly recommend. Orika (formerly hosted at google code) claims to … Continue reading →

Yes, I love trivial things in my computers as terminal appearance, desktop backgrounds (from time to time I look for wallpapers at Wallbase.cc) and some programs as Rainmeter or Fences (on Windows) See an example: But now let’s see what … Continue reading →

In the previous blog post entry, we introduced Spring Batch with a simple exposition of its features, main concepts both for configuring and running Batch Jobs. We also saw a sample application and two ways of running it: by invoking … Continue reading →

Spring Batch is the Spring Project aimed to write Java Batch applications by using the foundations of Spring Framework. Michael T. Minella, project lead of Spring Batch and also a member of the JSR 352 (Batch Applications for the Java … Continue reading →

Bazinga! tomcat 7 org.apache.jasper.JasperException: The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application You can dive into our beloved stackoverflow.com to find out that Tomcat doesn’t include JSTL,not even in Tomcat … Continue reading →

As you already know, Spring framework uses Commons Logging (JCL, the J stands for Jakarta, the former house for Apache Java solutions) as the framework for logging, mainly for historical reasons and backward compatibility. But it’s possible to use another … Continue reading →