About four years ago, near field communication – NFC was a cool and still new technology. I had worked with static and dynamically generated NFC signals at HP’s print devision, with the intent to tell by-passing mobile phones, how to set up a Wifi connection, to quickly and conveniently send a print-job to the printer. At […]
Month: June 2015
Java 8, Tomcat 8, and Jersey on Mac OS X
A while back, I wrote a blog post on how to quickly develop and deploy a Web app in Java, using RestEasy on top of Tomcat. While this worked well, I never felt really comfortable with the rest-easy dependencies. Moreover, since I wanted a really lean web-app, manually extracting only the absolutely necessary jars from the rather […]
Installing Java 8 and Tomcat 8 on Debian Jessie or Raspbian or RedHat
Apache Tomcat is a Servlet/JSP container and version 8.0 implements the Servlet 3.1 and JavaServer Pages 2.3 specifications. Please note that Apache Tomcat 8.0 requires a Java Standard Edition Runtime Environment (JRE) version 7 or later. So we start with installing a recent version of Oracle’s JRE. Install Oracle JRE 8 on Debian Linux (or Raspbian) […]