Having the right tools for the job makes a developer’s life much easier.

At Solenix, we use message queue technologies in various projects and our implementation of choice is Apache ActiveMQ. The experience we gathered with the Java Message Service (JMS) in general and ActiveMQ in particular was put together and presented to the entire software engineering team during a technical workshop.

During this event, various topics were discussed and concrete situations were analysed with respect to:

Last week we had a workshop covering the Hibernate framework as implementation of the Java Persistence API.

Hibernate is a powerful framework and great tool to manage complex data in our applications and the specific needs for different database implementations (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and many others). Particularly for common data operations this frees our developers from boilerplate code and lets us focus on the actual logic.

During our last internal workshop, we discussed SonarQube and further trained the team on this tool for continuous inspection of source code via static analysis. SonarQube is an important part of our Software Engineering Framework, and we use it every day to monitor and improve the quality of the software we maintain and develop.

SonarQube allows us to verify various aspects of code quality such as the coverage of automated tests, the respect of our customers’ coding conventions and the adequacy to standard best practices.