Ben’s Build and B(r)ass Notes

If you use Open Liberty Java Application Server, you should be careful when maintaining a cipher list. See what happens if you are not careful.

The Release of Apache Shiro 1.7.1 is out. Why I blog about this? I have been a commiter for the Apache Shiro project for a while now and recently became PMC member. 😊

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JLink Plugin, version 3.1.0.

Whenever you pull in SnakeYAML (either directly or via Jackson), you will break your modulear builds. The reason: SnakeYAML is a named automatic module. But then, automatic modules cannot be used in jlink images.

If you want to integration-test your Maven project, you might already use GitHub Actions.

I recently created a new OpenPGP key for my Apache (ASF) account. Of course I wanted to sign it with my existing GnuPG key I have since 2007. To my surprise, it failed with these error messages:

Here is a list of my top 10 OpenLiberty hidden features. They are not the "best" features by any means of »hidden knowledge«, but they are the most handy features I use regularly not everyone knows about. YMMV. 😉

Glowroot is a lightweighted but feature-rich java VM agent, which will allow you to collect and evaluate metrics from almost any VM. For larger setups, you might want to install a central collection instance. This guide covers how to set up Glowroot Central on OpenLiberty, a lightweigt and extremely fast Java Application Server (aka Servlet Container).