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Jonny Hackett

Jonny Hackett

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Jonny is a Senior Software Engineer and Mentor with 15+ years of experience in IT. As an avid SportingKC fan, Jonny is a Java Developer and our resident Spring Batch expert.

Spring Batch โ€“ Replacing XML Job Configuration With JavaConfig

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Attention: This article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.I recentlyย assisted a client inย getting up and running with a Spring Batch implementation. The team had decided to move forward with a JavaConfig-based configuration …

Processing Java Annotations Using Reflection

Jonny Hackett Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java 5 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.In my previous article covering Java Annotations,ย I outlined a recent use case and provided you with some examples of custom annotations and how they …

Creating Your Own Java Annotations

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Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.If you’ve been programming in Java and using any one of the popular frameworksย likeย Spring and Hibernate, you should be very familiar with using annotations. …

Scaling Spring Batch โ€“ Step Partitioning

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Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.We have talked about how to get up and running with Spring Batch in a few of previous articles. Now, weโ€™re going to start …

Building Young People’s Soft Skills Through Robotics

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Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.With my daughter starting high school in the fall, we have recently attended several open house sessions to get to know more about the …