Tag: maven

  • Spring Boot, MongoDB and raw JSON

    Sometimes you want to store and retrieve raw JSON in MongoDB. With Spring Boot storing the JSON isn’t very hard, but retrieving can be a bit more challenging. Setting up To start using MongoDB from Spring Boot, you add the dependency to spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb And then you inject MongoTemplate into your class Inserting into MongoDB Inserting…

  • Lessons learned

    Pressure makes diamonds, as the saying goes. I worked on a high-pressure project for a couple of weeks (as in, it needed to be done before we even started), and these are some of the lessons we learned as a team. The lessons are mostly tips and tricks, as we learned a lot on the…

  • Java 8

    On 18 march 2014, Oracle launched Java 8. I’ve had a little time to play with it. Here are my first experiences. Eclipse Eclipse 4.4 (Luna) will get support for Java 8. However, Eclipse 4.3.2 (Kepler) can support Java 8 by installing a feature patch. This page shows how to install the patch. Once installed,…