Following on the Spring Boot tutorial, it seems that we have moved away from the large Application Servers that I used to deploy a WAR to. It has Tomcat, Jetty and Undertow. When I worked in the JEE world we used WebLogic, Jetty was just becoming a thing, and I honestly didn’t pay it much attention. But I just read this really interesting article about how things have moved on.
It makes sense, especially in this whole microservices landscape. I’m learning a bit about how to configure aspects of the application server now. I must admit that I didn’t really understand this too much at the time either. I just coded, other people set this up for me to deploy to, but I always felt a bit concerned that I didn’t understand how to properly configure the application servers. In this whole new DevOps world, I guess I’ll have to look at this too.
I have been a software developer since 2004 and have worked in many different languages. I started off using scripting languages on the web and transitioned into Enterprise Java development. I have worked as a Team Leader and independent contractor in this capacity. I then decided to take a break, before changing direction to create apps for mobile devices. I changed languages and focused more on the business and design side of things for a while. However, I'm getting pretty jaded by the new and shiny, so I am going back to what I know best and retraining in all the new Java ways and really enjoying the process. My Java 8 certification was the start, this blog will tell the rest of the story.
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