As part of my hobby project to control RaspberryPi using Google Home Mini and/or Alexa, I wanted to write a very simple TCP client that keeps a connection open to one of my custom written server in cloud (I will write another blog post to cover the server side on a later date). The requirement of the client is to send a shared secret upon connecting and then keep waiting for message from server. Vert.x, Kotlin and Gradle allow rapid development of such project. The generated jar can be executed on Raspberry Pi. These steps outline the project setup and related source code to showcase a Vert.x and Kotlin project with Gradle.

I recently added GraphQL support to Gentics Mesh and I thought it would be a good idea to boil down the essence of my implementation in example so that I could share it in a simpler form. The example I’m about to show will not cover all aspects that I have added to the Gentics Mesh API (e.g. paging, search and error handling) but it will give you a basic overview of the parts that I put together. GraphQL does not require a GraphDB even if the name might suggest it.

The Vert.x team is pleased to announce the release of Eclipse Vert.x 3.5.0.

Eclipse Vert.x is a versatile toolkit, and as such it does not have any strong opinion on the tools that you should be using.

In this article we will see how to sett up the new Vert.x MQTT client. Actually, I have a real example so you can try it quickly.

it’s summer time and we have just released Vert.x 3.5.0.Beta1!

I could not attend the last Eclipse Vert.x community face-to-face meeting last fall, but one item that was discussed is the need for guides aimed at certain types of developers. One of my missions as part of joining the team was to work on this and I’m very happy to share it with you today!

This post is an introduction to the Vert.x-Swagger project, and describe how to use the Swagger-Codegen plugin and the SwaggerRouter class.

Eclipse Vert.x executes periodic and delayed actions with periodic and one-shot timers. This is the base for time scheduling and reach feature extension must be rather interesting. Be notified at certain date / time, take into account holidays, repeat notifications until a given date, apply time zone, take into account daylight saving time etc. There are a lot of useful features time scheduler may introduce to the Vert.x stack.

Nowadays, there are multiple tech stacks to build a real-time web app. What are the best choices to build real-time Angular client apps, connected to a JVM-based backend? This article describes an Angular+Vertx real-time architecture with a Proof of Concept demo app.

The rise of Scala as one of the most important languages on the JVM caught many (me included) by surprise. This hybrid of functional and imperative paradigms struck a chord with many developers. Thanks to Scala a lot of people who’d never have touched a language like Haskell got exposed to functional programming. This exposure was one of the driving forces to get streams and lambda into the JVM.

In this article, I would like to share why Vert.x is not only a robust foundation for the headless Content Management System Gentics Mesh but also how the recent release 3.4.0 can be used to build a template-based web server with Gentics Mesh and handlebars.

Vert.x 3.4.0 has just been released with many new exciting features!

we have released 3.4.0.Beta1, this release is the biggest since Vert.x 3.0.0 with plenty of great features.

Under the hood, the vert.x Context class plays a critical part in maintaining the thread-safety guarantees of verticles. Most of the time, vert.x coders don’t need to make use of Context objects directly. However, sometimes you may need to. This article provides a brief introduction to the vert.x Context class, which covers why it’s important, and why and when you might wish to make use of the Context directly, based on the author’s experience of building a generic async library which can be used with vert.x.

Microservices and APIs are everywhere. Everyone talks about them, presentation slides are full of them … some people are actually even building them. Microservices and APIs are of course not completely new concepts and they are a bit over-hyped. But in general the ideas behind them are not bad. Unfortunately, many people seem to believe that the only way how to implement an API in microservice is to use HTTP and REST. That is of course not true. Microservices and APIs can be based on many different protocols and technologies. My favorite one is of course AMQP. Don’t take me wrong, HTTP and REST is not necessarily bad. But in some cases AMQP is simply better and creating AMQP based APIs does not need to be complicated.

The all new fabric8 Vert.x Maven Plugin allows you to setup, package, run, start, stop and redeploy easily with a very little configuration resulting in a less verbose pom.xml.

Oauth2 support exists in Eclipse Vert.x since version 3.2.0. The implementation follows the principles that rule the whole vert.x ecosystem: unopinionated, it does what you want it to do, simple but not too simple.

This blog entry describes an approach to adopt Continuous Delivery for Vert.x applications using Jenkins and Ansible by taking advantage of the Jenkins Job DSL and Ansible plugins.

We have just released Vert.x 3.3.3, a bug fix release of Vert.x 3.3.x.

This post entry describes a solution to achieve centralized logging of Vert.x applications using the ELK stack, a set of tools including Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana that are well known to work together seamlessly.