Java

Announcing my new project: What to cook?

Hi! I got some good feedback from @phxql@fosstodon.org related to my previous post: with flyway it’s possible to have a JavaMigration, which let’s you write custom code. So let’s test this out today! JavaMigration It took me a while to make this work. I couldn’t figure it out what it was meant by adding the class to the db.migration package. Some places mentioned src/db/migration, some places mentioned src/main/java/db/migration and I even tried src/main/resources/db/migration (shouldn’t work, but here are my SQL files), but it was fruitless. In the end, @ComponentScan helped me again, as I created a new sub-package migration in my Spring project and annotated my class with @Component, that made it work, with the added benefit of allowing me to control the location of the files. ...

Hi! It has been a long time since I last wrote any meaningful Java code. Aside from some Jenkins plugin debugging here and there, the bulk of my Java experience is from the 2000s, mostly desktop apps (Swing/AWT), so after a nudge from a friend I’ve decided to dust off my long forgotten Java skills and I set to rewrite YT Email using Spring as a learning exercise. First impressions A big chunk of my software engineering experience is using PHP, that’s where it’s easier to compare things to, and right from the start I felt right at home, as most of the concepts are also present in Symfony/Doctrine and there is a high grade of translatability between both frameworks. There were a few things that Magento also does similarly to Spring but with different names. ...