Let’s say, you heard someone saying that Vert.x is awesome. Ok great, but you may want to try it by yourself. Well, the next natural question is “where do I start ?”. This post is a good starting point. It shows how is built a very simple vert.x application (nothing fancy), how it is tested and how it is packaged and executed. So, everything you need to know before building your own groundbreaking application.

In programming literature it has become the standard to create a hello world program as the first example. In this article I’ll be demonstrating how NPM users can quickly get started with vert.x. You will see that it is not that different and in fact it can be done using the tools you’re used to. Note that although we are using NPM we are not relying on node.js, all javascript code runs on the JVM.

This blog post presents feedbacks from a project migration using Vert.x 2 to Vert.x 3.

One of the interesting features of NoSQL databases is their schema-less mode of operation. This feature is very useful during project prototyping and early development since at early the stages of development of projects all data structures are not clear or have been defined yet. The reason of this post is not to discuss about that subject, but to show that sometimes you can also use NoSQL with a more traditional database engine like PostgreSQL.

Let’s say you have a Vert.x 3 application you want to install on a Linux server. But you want the old school way (I mean not the Docker way ☺). So, in other words, you need an init.d script. This post proposes an init.d script that you can use to start/stop/restart a Vert.x 3 application.

Vert.x Web distinguishes itself from traditional application servers like JavaEE by just being a simple extension toolkit to Vert.x, which makes it quite lightweight and small but nevertheless very powerful.

The Vert.x team is pleased to announce the release of Vert.x 2.1.6.