The Best of the Week (Oct 17): Enterprise Integration

Make sure you didn't miss anything with this list of the Best of the Week in the Enterprise Integration Zone (October 17 - October 24). Here they are, in order of popularity:

1. Gradle Goodness: Show Standard Out or Error Output from Tests

• We use the Test task in Gradle to run tests.

2. Developing Services with Apache Camel - Part IV: Load Testing and Monitoring

• This article focuses on load testing and tools for monitoring application performance.

3. JavaOne 2014: Developing Java EE 7 Applications with Scala

• Here is the slide deck to my JavaOne 2014, San Francisco, talk Developing Java EE 7 Applications with Scala (CON2644)

4. Spring Boot: My Favorite Timesaving Convention-enabling Autoconfig-creating Bean-making Classpath-shaking Microcontainer

• One of the common misconceptions when it comes to Spring based Java applications is that these require a sheer amount of configuration before one can even start working on the actual domain problem that the application is suppose to solve.

5. Architecture – Top 10 Traits of a Software Architect

• This article represents my opinion on top 10 traits of a software architect. Recently, I came across a need of my fellow colleague who asked me to take a shot at defining, what would it take for someone to become an architect. The below could be applied to architect in any technologies.