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Welcome to our blog about all kind of topics that are related to software development. We blog about:

SOA, BPM, EDA, ECM and all the other buzz words. Beware some post might not be so common as you think. We are not scared to go against main stream thoughts.

Technologies like java, maven, springframework, OSGi and front end technologies and frameworks like jQuery, DWR, Flex.

Finally to make this happen we need tools and of course a Mac (well some of us do). So we blog about that as well.

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Using spring integration for rss reading

For a customer I was thinking about a solution to loosely couple some systems to be integrated with a content management system, hippo cms in this case. I remembered I had a demo for a few times by Iwein Fuld and by Roel Derksen. A few weeks a go, Allard showed a nice demo with spring integration and sending an email. Based on these experiences I think that spring integration is a very nice product to solve my problem.

In this post I am showing the steps to create an application that reads an rss feed, transforms the data into our domain model, send the message to a business service. Of course I use spring integration in this step by step tutorial.

Of course the code is available online, check the references.

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Two new apps for the mac

This is a short post about two applications that I am using on the mac. I know one of them is not the most obvious choice, still I like it a lot better than another one that is used a lot. I am talking about a twitter client.

This is Syrinx, just a twitter [...]

Hippo cms workflow with events

HippoWorkflowEvents-small.pngHippo is an opensource content management system. Hippo has created a cms on top of the Jackrabbit repository. Hippo is not the only cms that does this trick, but it is a big one. With version 7 out there, you can now use some nice features that they have created. This post discusses one of these features in detail, Workflow. I’ll explain what it is, what is can be used for and how you can extend it with business events.

I do want to stress that this is an idea I have about how this can be implemented. I did try it out, but do not consider this as a best practise (yet). See it as inspiration to your own extensions and maybe Hippo will contain something like this in the future.

The idea behind this post came from talks with Allard and Jeroen Reijn, who will write a blog post about a specific part of the solution as I will describe in the post later on.

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Upgrading to Spring BlazeDS Integration M2

flexlogo.pngspringlogo.pngI have written some posts about using flex and the project Spring BlazeDS Integration. If you haven’t read that post I suggest you start there first : Flex remoting without configuring the client. That said, what is this post about? As the title already says, we are going to upgrade the example from the previous blog post to use the new features of the M2 release of spring Blazeds integration.

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Time to learn, time to go to ApacheCon europe 2009

Hi All, this a some what unusual post. It is not about technology. Well, that’s not completely true, let’s rephrase. This post does not contain code. This post is a shameless plug for the ApacheCon 2009 in Amsterdam. Why> Because it is a very nice event at a nice location. I was there last [...]