Saturday, July 22, 2017

JavaFx with SpringBoot

In this example we will see how to create a JavaFx project using spring boot.

Step 1 - Create a new maven project using below command. If you are new to spring boot, please check my previous article on standalone spring boot application.

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.javaxp -DartifactId=TestJavaFx -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false

Step 2 - Create below file -

pom.xml


Standalone SpringBoot Helloworld example

Step 1 - Run the below maven command. If maven is not installed in your machine please click here to check how to install maven.

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.javaxp -DartifactId=TestSpringboot -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false



How to install maven and create a new blank maven project


Step 1 - Go to maven site and download maven binary zip archive as shown below
https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi



Step 2 - Once you download the file extract it to a particular location and set below Windows environment variables
 
M2_HOME - C:\TestMaven\apache-maven-3.5.0
MAVEN_HOME - C:\TestMaven\apache-maven-3.5.0

PATH - C:\TestMaven\apache-maven-3.5.0\bin

Make sure that JDK is installed and "JAVA_HOME" variable is added in your Windows environment variable

Now test maven using below command

mvn -version

 

Note - You can change the default maven localRepository as per your requirement, just go to apache-maven-3.5.0/conf/settings.xml and change the path

<localRepository>C:/TestMaven/repo</localRepository>

Friday, July 14, 2017

Poor Employers in the Age of Technology

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Every entrepreneur desires to have most skilled, diligent, well-mannered and reliable professionals. This is probably because the employees are the strength of an organization having the power to make or break it. While the motivated, creative and problem-solving employees support employer to flourish the business, the lazy, fickle and unproductive workforce can cause huge loss to the company.

Mostly it is a poor recruitment process that let the losers enter into the organization but sometimes the blame of turning a skillful person into unproductive creature goes to the technology. While the technological advancement has changed the human lifestyle, it has also changed the environment of workplaces. It is hard to imagine an office without computers, the internet, air conditioners and supportive technologies. While all these pieces of machinery have become necessities to work, these are the hindrances as well. So, the chances of employer bearing huge monetary loss or, in worst cases, losing his business are more because of the facilities provided to the employees than just the lack of efforts.

We have rounded up here a few basic facilities provided by the employer to its workforce that reversely cause his own failure.         

Internet – The main distraction that kills productivity

While the internet is a compulsion for online businesses, software houses, and many other businesses, it is full of distraction. Smartphones, social media, and emails are among the major workplace productivity killers. While the employer provides its employee with the internet for work-related tasks, the mischievous guys use the service for updating their Facebook profiles, playing games, and watching YouTube videos. Resultantly, they fail to accomplish their tasks at the time and make the employer bear the loss.