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 →

Not only for fun. It’s also to open my mind. Introduction Since a few years ago, I try to use several OS in order to improve my computing skills: Windows 7/Vista, OS X (Lion currently) and my favorite Linux distribution, … Continue reading →

Liferay, Alfresco, Activiti, BPM, BPMN, ECM. Liferay Portal is a Java-based open source portal. A portal is generally defined as a software platform for building websites and web applications, with features for building the views and accessing data repositories. It … Continue reading →

Vert.x, C10k problem, Node.js, MongoDB. Vert.x is a application platform, that claims to be lightweight and high performance, and it’s for the JVM. To summarize, is a Java (and JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Python or Groovy) Async I/O platform. Node.js is … Continue reading →

A friend of mine has requested me some help for improving his skills in Java EE and Spring Framework. An exciting question, indeed. The general context He’s working for a company since 2008. To work for a company for a … Continue reading →

What is Vert.x? In my humble opinion, Vert.x is a poorly documented platform for creating server applications intended to be scalable by using an event-driven, non-blocking I/O in the JVM. The first definition for Vert.x I heard was “it’s like … Continue reading →

I always wanted to have my own website but I don’t have enough skills as web developer to create one from scratch. I’m a Java EE developer, so I have to work with HTML/CSS/JavaScript/JQuery on a regular basis. But I’m … Continue reading →