Operation friendly Spring application runtime configuration

Most applications need some kind of runtime configuration like e.g. database connection settings. These seetings are usually provided as program arguments or system properties. The following post will show a proper way to include runtime configuration support in a modern Spring application to make it is easy to handle the application by the operation team.

Moving a Maven artifact to new coordinates

Sometimes it can be necessary to move a Maven artifact to new project coordinates (groupId, artifactId, version). Fortunatly Maven does supports this use case.

Logging request/response messages with Apache CXF

Today I would llike to give a short introduction in How-To log request/response messages of your Apache CXF JAX-WS service.