Coming Up for Air
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Nov 2015

Kotlin-RS

In keeping with theme of "use existing frameworks with Kotlin" and misleading titles, here’s a quick and dirty demonstration of writing JAX-RS applications us...
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29
Oct 2015

Kotlin Faces

There’s a chance that at least some of you saw the blog title and thought: "Ah ha! A Kotlin wrapper/helper for JSF!" and rushed over to check it out. If so, mission accomplished. :) This really isn’t anything that ambitious...
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Sep 2015

Bad Horse!

If you’re a Doctor Horrible fan, here’s something fun and goofy to start your week. No clue how they ...
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30
Jun 2015

An Introduction to Programming with Minecraft at the Oklahoma City JUG

On Monday, July 13, I will be leading the monthly OKC JUG session, whose topic this month is "An Introduction to Programming with Minecraft Mods". We’ll be using a modified version of the curriculum Arun Gupta has developed for this Devoxx4Kids program, with examples taken from the book he and his son wrote, Minecraft Modding with Forge: A Family-Friendly Guide to Building Fun Mo...
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26
Jun 2015

Running IDEA 14 on Java 8 on the Mac

My team at work was having some issues with IDEA and the Checkstyle plugin. Based on the error message, and without actually looking at the JARs, it seemed pretty clear that the issue was a JDK version issue. While I think this issue has been resolved, when I set up my Mac months ago, I was forced to install Java 6 in order to install IDEA, but, apparently, the new version of the Checkstyle plugin was compiled with a newer JDK (as it should be). Whether or not the Java 6 issue still exists with IDEA, you can make IDEA run on Java 8 pretty easily, and I’ll show you ho...
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29
May 2015

Changing the GlassFish Admin Users's Password Programmatically

Recently, in the #glassfish channel on Freenode, a user was having trouble configuring GlassFish in a Docker environment. He was scripting the configuration of the server, but was having trouble setting the admin user’s password, since the change-admin-password command takes input from stdin. Fortunately, there’s REST API for that. This curl command will do what the user needs to do without any need for additi...
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24
Apr 2015

Custom Maven Packaging Type

As I’ve noted in a previous post, I recently moved my blog from Awestruct to JBake. This also allowed me to migrate the building and publishing of the blog contents to the toolchain that I know pretty well (Maven). What bothered me, though, was that my POM defined the project as a jar packaging type: the build produces no jar file and, in fact, doesn’t process any Java at all. What I wanted, then, was to be able to define the lifecycle in such a way the the compile phase didn’t try to compile anything, and the install phase didn’t try to put anything in my local repo. Unfortunately, either I’m a bit dense, or the documentation wasn’t very clear (it’s likely a combination of both :). At any rate, I finally had a eureka moment late last night and figured it out. Here is a distillation of m...
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Mar 2015

From Awestruct to JBake

For some time now, I have been using awestruct to power my blog, and, for the most part, I’ve been happy. However, I have found, especially on the Mac, the Ruby-based environment more difficult to setup than I would like. While I have solved this problem before, it presented itself once again when I was issued a Mac upon joining NetSuite. I can, of course, muddle through it, but I’m tired of fighting it, so I started looking around for an alternative and f...
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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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