Archive of stories published by spullara

Using JAX-RS with Protocol Buffers for high-performance REST APIs

One of the great things about the JAX-RS specification is that it is very extensible and adding new providers for different mime-types is very easy. One of the interesting binary protocols out there is Google Protocol…


Mustache is logic-less but the logic has to go somewhere

As the developer of mustache.java I get a lot of feature requests to break the mustache language and add real logic to the templates. In virtually every case the reason the developer wanted the functionality was because they were…


Java annotations make declarative programming easy

Someone on java.net just recently had some terrible XML format for command line arguments and someone suggested in the comments that maybe they should be using annotations instead. This is a really good application for them actually…

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