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David Salter

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Hi, I'm David. A full stack software engineer. I've written several books and can be found working is most languages with {} or ;

How to Create an Oracle Database on Oracle Cloud

Introduction One of the features of Oracle Cloud is the ability to create hosted Oracle Databases. The Always Free Tier provides users with the ability to create up to 2 Autonomous Databases. There are two types of these available with Oracle Cloud...

Creating a VM On Oracle Cloud

Introduction In this article, we're going to see how easy it is to create a VM within Oracle Cloud and deploy a basic Apache HTTP server to the instance. Why Oracle Cloud? Oracle Cloud provides several free services that are always free. For comput...

Launching Open Liberty From A Maven Project

In a previous post, I showed the simplest possible Jakarta EE 8 project and how it could be built with Maven. This application depends upon having a Jakarta EE 8 Application Server already and installed, that the application can be deployed to. Many...

Installing and Switching Java Versions On A Mac

With the relatively rapid change schedule for Java nowadays, I find it useful to have several versions of the JDK installed on my Mac so that I can easily switch between versions depending upon need. I use the AdoptOpenJDK binaries and install them v...

The Simplest Jakarta EE 8 Application

Now that Jakarta EE 8 has been released, several runtimes have been updated to support Jakarta EE 8. To showcase this, I've written the bare minimum required to deploy a Jakarta EE application onto any Jakarta EE compliant server (in this instance I...

Creating MicroProfile Applications From The Command Line

The MicroProfile initiative provides the excellent web based Starter application to allow developers to easily scaffold MicroProfile based applications. I recently uploaded a video showing how to use the starter. Recently, a new version of the Starte...