My first article on Medium was about Getting started with Red Hat Fuse Development Environment. This article describes how I created a… — My first article on Medium was about Getting started with Red Hat Fuse Development Environment. This article describes how I created a Vagrant project to do my Fuse development in. For years now, I use Virtual Machines to abstract my installations from my host, keeping my host OS clean. A…

I like the idea of package managers in the different Linux distributions. It’s a pity that Windows does not have that build in. Well, maybe… — I like the idea of package managers in the different Linux distributions. It’s a pity that Windows does not have that build in. Well, maybe the Windows Store, but that’s not actually “it”. A few years ago I discovered Chocolatey. Which does quite the same as those Linux package managers.

TLDR; — TLDR; Try to start codereadystudio with the -clean option when it is slow after an upgrade. Explanation I worked with Red Hat Code Ready Studio version 12.19.1 for a while. And already several months ago version 12.21.0 was released. Halfway December 12.21.1 came GA. Earlier I already tried 12.21.0, but it was…

Some time ago I wrote an article about how to implement a SOAP Service based on Camel-CXF in Spring Boot. This is one of those articles… — Some time ago I wrote an article about how to implement a SOAP Service based on Camel-CXF in Spring Boot. This is one of those articles that make me feel happy, because it helps me to quickly create a new SOAP service even today. However, this article did not include…

A local instance of an AMQ Broker is handy when developing an integration or application that needs to produce or consume messages. If not… — A local instance of an AMQ Broker is handy when developing an integration or application that needs to produce or consume messages. If not necessary. There are of course several options. In the past, I tended to do a local installation of such a product. Nowadays, I find a Docker…

In many integration projects queueing is a major transport mechanism for processing messages. Most queueing implementations have UIs or… — In many integration projects queueing is a major transport mechanism for processing messages. Most queueing implementations have UIs or other mechanisms to interact with the queueing implementation. For instance: Weblogic has the admin-console that allows you to inspect messages, move and delete them. Red Hat Fuse on Karaf has HawtIO…

We all know REST services, right? And REST services work with JSON, right? Well, …, not exactly. Web services based on SOAP (Simple Object… — We all know REST services, right? And REST services work with JSON, don’t they? Well, …, not exactly. Web services based on SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) inherently use XML as a payload of request and response messages. …

A few weeks ago I got to help a colleague with a problem calling a REST service. It was a multipart/form-data REST service, not a nowadays… — A few weeks ago I got to help a colleague with a problem calling a REST service. It was a multipart/form-data REST service, not a nowadays more common REST/JSON service. But more on that in a later article. I want to focus on the problem as I got under my…

Earlier I wrote about how I created a seemless desktop using Vagrant, VirtualBox en MobaXterm. — Earlier I wrote about how I created a seemless desktop using Vagrant, VirtualBox en MobaXterm. A few months ago I was busy creating a new box with Oracle Linux, later switching to CentOS and installing several IDE’s in it. And Docker. …