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 →

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! Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on project…: Fatal error compiling: invalid target release: 1.8.0_11 -> [Help 1] To summarize, I want to compile a maven project using Java 8, that is possible thanks to the JAVA_HOME configuration:

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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 →

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 →