Martin Pradny's blog

I should be probably doing some work now, but the last three weeks were quite busy and a short blog post may help me to process all the information I gathered (or I'm just too tired to get any real work done as it looked like that half of Poland is going home for an extended weekend due to public holiday in Germany and I got home at 2AM instead of 11PM). Engage Last weeks were exciting. It all started with Engage, the best IBM/HCL collaboration community event in Europe, or maybe in the world, but as I haven't been to any event outside Europe recently, some else has to decide. Theo and Hilde organized a wonderful event, as always. I think we are all getting spoiled and it's really tough for them to keep every event such well organized and find those incredible locations, where I'd not think it's possible to host a conference. And it just works. This time it was in  Autoworld Brussels , which mad part of my family really jealous as they spend most of their free...

Today I returned from another great Engage conference. Going to conferences gives you some fresh ideas, energy from the peers and motivation for next work, but it also takes some energy due to travel. This time I also returned with a few tasks and having currently Friday afternoon I decided to start with an easy one, just publish something I had in my drawer for a while. More than a year ago I blogged about the possibility of creating JAX-RS based REST services directly in NSF. I remember that   Per Henrik Lausten  liked it at that time. He also immediately mentioned that Swagger UI would be nice too, but I was too busy then to follow up on this. In following months I needed it myself but I never published it. So, as promised to Per at Engage, here it is. Swagger UI can be really nice to have for testing, but what's more important, you get OpenAPI specification, which you then can use to generate clients for your REST API. And all with close to no effort. Here is ho...