In this post I will briefly describe the steps and issues encountered when migrating a Java EE REST API from JBoss EAP 6 to JBoss EAP 7 - this implies migrating from a Java EE 6/JAX RS 1.0 implementation to a Java EE 7/JAX RS.2.0 implementation. The trigger was the announcement from Red Hat regarding the general availability of their JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 (JBoss EAP) ¹. JBoss EAP 7 is based on Wildfly 10², so the code snippets showed along the post should work on Wildfly 10 too.

One of my main concern when I considered the migration from Wordpress to Jekyll was how would I be able to handle multiple authors, because this plays an important role in the website supporting our Coding Friend Program. Fear no more, I have found a satisfactory way to handle multiple authors with Jekyll¹ and in this short post I list the main points concerning that.

Not long time ago I have rediscovered an old friend - Bash¹ the Alias². We were never best friends until now. We got acquainted at the beginning of my computer science studies. I visited back then a course held by Cisco, “Linux Essentials” or something like that. The trainer mentioned at one point what were aliases and how handy they could be. Well 12 years later, and I still had not gotten that, until recently, when the alias presented himself in a new light to me. Since then we’ve been best friends. Read on to learn why.

In this post, I will give my two cents on migrating a programming blog from Wordpress¹ to Jekyll², namely I will list and detail the main steps I took for migrating Codepedia.org.

Why?

Well, there were pains - I was experiencing performance issues (caused mainly by memory shortages on a 4GB machine) with the virtual private server from GoDaddy, where I used to host both Podcastpedia.org and Codepedia.org. Codingpedia was developed initially with Wordpress¹, which I still think is a great tool, if you want to quickly start a blog and don’t have programming experience, but it kinda requires a LAMP² stack, which it’s kinda performance killer from a number of visitors forward. Of course you can always add more hardware to support the website, but that has a limit too. Limited was also the budget I was ready to spend on hosting, by today’s standards.

In a previous post, I’ve used Server Sent Events to create a monitoring dashboard. SSE are a one way messaging format form server to clients in contrast to Web Sockets where communication is bidirectional. In this post, I’ll use Web sockets to create a tiny chat server using Tyrus, the reference implementation of the Java API for WebSocket (JSR 356). A great introduction to this API can be found on Oracle Network here.

In order to keep the tutorial simple, the server and clients will be command line apps, no GUIs here, it is a serious blog :smile: So let’s get started!