Why Vaadin and jOOQ Are a Natural Fit for AI Driven Development

Over the last two years, I have been working heavily with AI-assisted and agent-based development. One observation keeps coming back: the choice of technology stack matters far[...]

One Query, Complete Object Graphs: Nested DTOs with jOOQ MULTISET

In my previous post about Open Session in View, I explored how this default Spring Boot setting can hide serious performance problems. The N+1 query problem sits behind a system[...]

An AI-Ready Architecture for Business Applications

Agentic AI is changing how we build software. AI is no longer just a helper that writes small code snippets. It can reason about requirements, generate larger parts of a system,[...]

The Simon Martinelli Stack: A Pragmatic Approach to Full-Stack Java Development

In the fast-paced world of software development, developers are often overwhelmed by endless framework choices and architectural trends. Over the years, I have refined a stack[...]

How to use jOOQ with Testcontainers, and Flyway

When using a database the question is how to manage the versions of the schema and how to use the database in testing. Container technologies became a defacto standard. Why not[...]

Vaadin and jOOQ – a Match Made in Heaven

Have you ever had to write an application that didn’t do much other than display and change data? And did you use a Single Page Application framework like Angular, a REST API,[...]

Type Safe SQL in Java with jOOQ

No matter if you are using frameworks like JPA, MyBatis or Spring Data JDBC you always end up declaring the SQL statements as a Java String.