We have decided now to publish our free Software package on Maven Central under the namespace “com.illucit“. This way the packages can be used by everyone without having to declare a separate repository in Maven or SBT. This software packages also contain… more

Recently one of our customers faced the challenge of fixing a production error in his desktop client application. Using SVN this may be a time consuming and error-prone task. So I held a workshop about Git and GitFlow. Git Our customer’s application is… more

Project Lombok provides annotations which reduce boilerplate code in Java applications (see Listing 1). The Netbeans IDE supports it almost out-of-the-box. You just have to enable the option “Project Properties > Build > Compiling > Enable Annotation Processing”. However the current version 1.16.8 is not… 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

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

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