Saturday, September 20, 2014

Jackson JSON parser - Writing Custom Deserializer

One of major difference between Jackson and GSON is how they handle json parsing and mapping the json to a class object. While doing so Jackson uses strict checking which means the object from which the json was created and the class to which the json has to be mapped should be in strict sync. Consider the following example - class Foo { private String value; } class Bar { private...

RestEasy 3.0

We were using RESTEasy 2.0 in on of our earlier projects. RESTEasy is a JBoss project that provides various frameworks to help you build RESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. The 2.0 version was quite simple to use. I decided to use version 3.0 in one of recent projects and the migration was not that tough. A lot of chages have been done in the newer version. I am going to mention...

Friday, September 19, 2014

Amazon RDS with MySql - How to create an instance!

This post will guide through how to use Amazon RDS, the steps of creating an instance and other related things. Before going further one can take a look on few links to get a hang of what RDS is all about and how does it perform against other available solutions. Amazon RDS vs DIY MySQL on EC2...