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In order to develop in the functional programming language Scala, you need to set up the toolchain, including the JRE, the scala build tool and an IDE. In this short tutorial, I will show how to reach this goal. Install JDK As… more

Free Variable Extractor Tasks for Bamboo Automatic Deployment Package Version Number Assignment This plugin for the build tool Atlassian Bamboo provides 2 new types of tasks to extract variables from text or XML files. These extracted information can then be used later… more

SEO: How to eliminate render-blocking JS and CSS in above-the-fold content Since Google recently (End of April 2015) started to penalize non-mobile friendly and non-responsive sites in their ranking, we evaluated some online SEO tools to test our website. The best tool to… more

In Java Enterprise, the EJB (Enterprise Java Bean) technology is often used to create a service layer of a J2EE application running in an application Server (like Glassfish or Wildfly). While accessing these EJB instance is relatively easy from inside the same… more

In the past weeks we had the problem, that some of our emails sent from our company SMTP server were flagged as Spam by Gmail (and some servers that use a spam filter from google), although we didn’t use any language we… more

The basic setup of Solr 4.10 with Eclipse 4.4 and Wildfly 8.1 requires quite a bit of configuration. First of all, be sure that your system fulfills the following requirements. Prerequisites Java Development Kit (jdk1.8.0_25) Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers… more

As a software developer, it is important to keep up with current technologies, stay in touch with fellow developers and look out for interesting projects. Especially Open Source Software (OSS) has a lot to offer for the whole community of developers and… more

illucIT is a software development company with focus on Java Enterprise Applications. We implement tailor-made software solutions that suit the business requirements of our customers. For that reason we employ state of the art technologies for web, desktop and mobile platforms. To provide our customers with a… more