Apache Chemistry and CMIS

In this post, I will explain how you can use apache chemistry API’s to query the enterprise content management systems. Apache Chemistry project provides client libraries for you to easily implement integration with any of the content management products that support or implement CMIS standard. As you might be aware that there are multiple standards such as JCR and CMIS  for interacting with the content repositories. Although with JCR 2 support for SQL-92 is now available,  I really prefer the conciseness and wider adoption of the ...

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Retrofit custom JSON deserializer

Retrofit uses Google’s gson libraries to deserialize JSON representation to Java object representation. Although, this deserialization process works for most of the cases, sometimes you would have to override the deserialization process to parse a part of the response or because you don’t have any clear object representation of the JSON data. In this post, I will share an example of a custom deserializer to parse the response from Wiktionary’s word definition API. First, let us take a look at the request and response. The request URL is mentioned...

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