This short example will show you how to run an ActiveMQ broker with Maven using the ActiveMQ Maven plug-in, as part of running tests. In the example I will implement a Java unit test, but I think that running ActiveMQ with Maven will be more useful when, for instance, wanting to run a broker in connection… Read More »
Some time ago I red about the Iron.io and how they created very small Docker images for different languages, such as Python, Java etc. Some days ago I was looking into how to make my Elastalert Docker image smaller, mostly as a therapeutic task, when I recalled the Iron.io Docker images. A quick search revealed… Read More »
Alpine Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution which, as far as I am concerned, makes it especially suitable to use in Docker images. The Java Service Wrapper from Tanuki enables Java applications to run as services and is also useful just to launch a Java application, since it will restart it under certain error conditions.… Read More »