Using Oracle JSON-Relational Duality Views with Spring Boot. The ORM Killer?

Oracle Database 23ai introduced a powerful feature called JSON-Relational Duality Views. These views let you work with relational data in a document-oriented way. In this post,[...]

Fly.io and Neon: The Perfect Combination to Run Your Java Applications

With the right tools, deploying and managing Java applications can be straightforward and efficient. This blog post will explore how Fly.io and Neon make a perfect combination for[...]

Connect App Engine to Cloud SQL

How to connect from an application running on Google Cloud App Engine to a PostgreSQL database running in Cloud SQL.

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[...]

Visualize Message Flow with Vaadin & Neo4j

Analyzing and visualizing the message flow between business functions was the goal of my current project. At first, we considered using a UML tool for this job, but we came to the[...]

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,[...]

Unleash Database Power: Generate XML and JSON with SQL

Today databases have a lot of functionality that is often not used by software developers because they simply do not know that this exists. But knowing about these features can[...]

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.