Varlink for Java is a Java based implementation of the Varlink interface. This blog post shows how varlink can be used in the Java world to solve the problem of accessing operating system functionality.

When you have a persistent volume in OpenShift configured with “Retain”, the volume will switch to “Released” after the claim has been deleted. But what now? How to manually recycle it? This post will give a brief overview on how to manually reclaim the volume.

This article walks you through the first steps of creating an OPC UA solution based on Eclipse Milo. OPC UA, also known as IEC 62541, is an IoT solution for connecting industrial automation systems. Eclipse Milo™ is an open-source Java based implementation.

It started a as proof-of-concept, checking out AsyncAPI and learning something about it. Actually that topic came to me from two different angles. We where looking into solutions for RPC over messaging (namely AMQP 1.0) instead of HTTP/REST. The second angle was a discussion with a very good friend of mine of “how do you define today an API about messages from the server to the client”. Everyone is talking about Swagger and OpenAPI, but this seems to be all request/response for HTTP based APIs.

A few weeks back, while being at EclipseCon France, I did stumble over a nice little gadget. There was talk from MicroEJ around Java on microcontrollers. And they where showing an IoT related demo based on their development environment. And it seemed they did have Eclipse Paho (including TLS) and Google Protobuf running on their JVM without too much troubles.