Testing the Current Date/Time in Spring and Java

Keith Shakib Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, Spring, Testing, Tutorial 1 Comment

Attention: This article was published over 3 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated.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.How often in Java services do we need to use the current date and time? Most of us would agree we use it quite …

SQL Server Agent Jobs with Spring Batch

Monitoring SQL Server Agent Jobs with Spring Batch

Josh Green Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, Modernization, Spring Batch, SQL, SQL Server Leave a Comment

In this blog post, I will demonstrate a technique to query the status of a SQL Server Agent job that executes the SSIS package. SQL Server Agent scripts are asynchronous in nature. This can make it difficult to make code decisions based on the execution status of a script of this type.

Spring Batch Job Flow

Spring Batch Job Flow Using a JobExecutionDecider

Jonny Hackett Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java, Spring, Spring Batch, Tutorial 2 Comments

In this tutorial for Spring Batch, we’re going to take a look at Programmatic Flow decisions in a Spring Batch job using Spring’s JobExecutionDecider. Spring Batch is a pretty powerful framework and this is another useful tool to have in your Spring Batch toolbox.

To demonstrate, I’ll use a scenario that came up recently while working on my clientโ€™s project. After explaining the situation and my goals, Iโ€™ll jump into a detailed, step-by-step guide. Letโ€™s get started!

Read XML

Using JAXB And StaxEventItemReader To Read XML Data

Jonny Hackett Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming, Spring, Spring Batch 2 Comments

In one of my previous Spring Batch blog articles, I wrote about the need to read a set of data, process the data, and export the transformed data into XML for consumption by another system. In this blog, I’ll be doing the opposite. Iโ€™ll show you how to read data from an XML format instead.

Spring Boot With GraphQL: What The Cool Kids Are Doing

Matt McCandless API Development, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, GraphQL, Spring Boot 2 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 5 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated.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.This article is going to introduce you to Spring Boot with GraphQL. Weโ€™ll walk through a simple beer app to show you what it …