Implementing a REST API can be easy or it can be a headache if we do not use proper tools or technologies. In this article, I implemented a simple REST API using Spring Boot and Spring MVC to help beginners get started. The REST API in this example exposes the…

A s a student or a developer, most of the time we have to create applications which can be for an assignment, a project or a prototype. Setting up a database can be time consuming. Most developers will argue that everything can be done easily in the Cloud nowadays and…

In Software Engineering, there is an interesting topic in Software Measurement which is related to Document Similarity. How to perform and calculate document similarity using information retrieval technique like cosine similarity in a vector space model. In order to demonstrate the practical aspect of how cosine similarity is calculated and…

As a university student in Software Engineering, 99% of the time, there will be an assignment or a research project where the students will be asked to use some metric tools to perform some measurement and then perform some analysis interpretation of the results. Students often have a hard time…

As a full stack developer in Java, you might have come across a situation where you need to load keystore certificate information from your WebSphere container. So how do perform such action? Let’s say you have a websphere application and in your application you need to consume messages from Kafka…

In Software Engineering, there is an interesting topic in Software Measurement which is related to Document Similarity. How to perform and calculate document similarity using information retrieval technique like cosine similarity in a vector space model. In order to demonstrate the practical aspect of how cosine similarity is calculated and…

When working in an eco-system containing hundreds of applications, in most cases data is shared among these applications and in big companies we usually have a master data management and a data governance policy plan in place where these data are protected. …

Once common issue related to data processing, involving batch scripts relates to Oracle Path Environment variable. Most of the time we defined and export the Oracle Database Environment variables in our unix scripts for example ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_SID. However, there is one scenario where the ORACLE_SID will not work. Let’s…

Creative Solution: Batch data processing using PL/SQL When working on an application which is part of an ecosystem, data needs to transit throughout the ecosystem from one application to another. …