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Feb 2025

Coil AsyncImage with Authentication

I’ve been working on a side project that includes both a backend (Quarkus-based, of course) and a mobile app (I’m using Kotlin Multiplatform, but that’s a topic for another time). In this project, I need to display an image (think profile picture), but the link is secured, meaning I need to authenticate with the server to get it. I couldn’t find anything in the Coil docs explaining directly how to do that, but I was finally able to piece it together, and I’d like to share that here in case it helps so...
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Dec 2024

Christmas 2024 - Human and Divine

This year was a very light year in blogging for me — even by my recent standards —  for a lot of reasons that probably aren’t of much interest to others. That said, I want to close the year out as I have for years with a Christmas post. I realize that many of you may not celebrate Christmas, and for others it’s just another holiday plus lights and gifts and family. I would be remiss, though, if I didn’t close the year sharing the real, historical meaning of Christmas: the birth of a baby sent to atone for the sins of the world. There’s a lot of theology there that I won’t unpack here, but, if you’d like to hear more — or try to convince me that I’m wrong :) — I’m he...
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Feb 2024

Inter-container Communications with Testcontainers

I recently found myself in need of having two different Testcontainers communicate with each other. To someone more familiar with Docker, the solution might have been more obvious, but, alas, I am not that man. :P After asking in the Testcontainer Slack, I got a pointer, so I thought I’d share it here in case it might help so...
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Aug 2023

Quarkus for Frontend Devs

A friend of mine is a very good Angular developer. For a project he’s been asked to help with, though, he finds himself needing to do some backend work. Since that’s a bit outside his wheelhouse, he asked me for advice. In this post, I’ll write up what I told him in case it might be of use to so...
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7
Jul 2023

Incorporating preview/experimental features in WildFly

One of the toughest challenges facing a mature product like WildFly is adding features without breaking existing users. It’s especially difficult when that project serves as the foundation for a commercial product downstream that requires a higher degree of stability. While WildFly is a wholly independent project, it’s not completely immune to concerns that EAP may have with regard to API stability, long term support, etc. That has made it difficult at times to change WildFly, though efforts like WildFly Preview have certai...
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Jul 2023

MyFaces 4 on WildFly

For several years now, WildFly has supported the ability to install and use different Jakarta Faces (Faces) implementations, either across every application deployed to the server, or for a specific application only. We supported running either Mojarra and MyFaces, with versions running all the way back to 1.2. With the move to Jakarta EE 10, however, that feature was temporarily broken simply because there was not a 4.0-compliant version of MyFaces available by the time we were ready to ship. That has changed now, though, as has the manner in which we support changing the implementations. In this short post, I’ll show you how that works starting in ...
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Aug 2022

WildFly, Arquillian, Testcontainers, and Kafka

Back again with another Testcontainers example. This time, though, the environment is a bit different. We’ll be looking at a Jakarta EE application using WildFly and MicroProfile Reactive Messaging (MP RM), and we’re going to test it using Arquillian and Testcontainers. Let’s ge...
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Apr 2022

Quarkus Dev Services, jOOQ, Flyway, and Testcontainers: A Full Example

I have written a few posts about using Quarkus with Testcontainers, Flyway, and jOOQ. Since posting those, I’ve learned some new tricks that have changed how I integrate the various tools. In this post, I’d like to share a complete example that shows how use Quarkus, Quarkus Dev Services, Testcontainers, and Flyway together for a zero (ish) local co...
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My name is Jason Lee. I am a software developer living in the middle of Oklahoma. I’ve been a professional developer since 1997, using a variety of languages, including Java, Kotlin, C/C++, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Delphi, C#, and even a bit of COBOL and JCL. I currently work for IBM on the WildFly/EAP team, where, among other things, I maintain integrations for some MicroProfile specs, OpenTelemetry, Micrometer, Jakarta Faces, and Bean Validation. (Full resume here. LinkedIn profile)

I am the president of the https://okcjug.org[Oklahoma City Java User Group], and an occasional speaker at the JUG and a variety of technical conferences.

On the personal side, I’m active in my church, and enjoy bass guitar, running, fishing, and a variety of martial arts. I’m also married to a beautiful woman and have two boys, who, thankfully, look like their mother.

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