First WebSocket & Stomp Experience
For a project where I want to be able to offer more interactivity and concurrent modifications, I decided to use a WebSocket. Since my backend is written in Spring, after some research, I decided to u
Working As A Software Engineer
Ever since I graduated as a Master in Computer Science, I started working in the software engineering industry. Over the course of my career I have done many different projects.
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Action Context
When I designed my action object system, I only imagined the possibility that an action would impact a single entity. In the end, this is what you also would imagine with a traditional REST endpoint.
Multiple Inheritance Actions
In a previous blog post, I introduced my new approach regarding updating objects. Instead of just performing the updates in the service, I approached it in a true object oriented approach and made act
Third Party Authentication
In the previous blog post, we discussed whether or not you should offer a separate public API. One of the points there was how you do the authentication, and whether that should be done in a separate
Mail Languages/Translations
I am a big advocate of keeping all translations in the front-end part. This becomes tricky when we have to deal with sending e-mails. The front-end is not able to send e-mails and thus the back-end ca
Multi-Tenant SQL Queries
In the world of cloud applications, having a multi-tenant application is standard. While there are multiple options to implement multi-tenancy regarding the database/storage approach, having a single
Global State SecurityContextHolder
Everyone agrees with the fact that having some global state is a bad idea and should be avoided. The cases in which this is really the only option are very limited. One case however, is in Spring wher
Checked Exceptions
In Java, we have two types of exceptions, checked exceptions and runtime exceptions (I am not including the Error class). The only difference between these two types, is that the checked exception is part of the signature of the method and must be ha...
API Error Messages
When designing an API, we tend to only focus on successful requests. This often leads to error responses that are not useful and often don't contain any information. I am guilty of this myself, and in my own projects I typically only use the HTTP sta...