Sonatype Updates
Sonatype "sunset" their OSSRH system for publisning into https://mvnrepository.com/ on 2025-06. These steps will allow using the existing Maven plugins to publish while working on switching to their new plugin.
Kotlin with Maven
Stand-alone Programs Instructions and template for a stand-alone Java program built with Kotlin source code. An easy way to start with is, since JetBrains is behind this whole thing, just…
Some Cloud Storage Services
Azure Blob Storage ("Azure") and Google Cloud Storage ("GCS") are now supported as well as AWS S3 ("S3") by log4j-s3-search project. While working on adding the two options, I learned…
Publishing a Java project into MVN Repository
It turns out that this is quite an involved process with a lot of configuration and coordination w/ Sonatype. It took several days, upwards to a week or so, for…
Too Many Languages!
ARGH! I've been bounced between languages. It's driving me NUTS. This is a comparison of how to do something in each to help me map between them. There is definitely…
Spring Boot on Scala
Using Spring Boot on Scala Assumption This example uses a project generated/seeded via Activator using the "minimal-scala" template. However, any project using SBT will probably work just as well. Add Spring…
Spring Boot using multiple datasources
I cannot believe how little info there is on using multiple Datasources in Spring Boot. Out of the box, Spring Boot makes it very easy to configure the default Datasource: tweak…