Building a better Mouse Trap - web crawling with Temporal

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 14:26:30 +0000

For various reasons, I’ve been looking at Temporal lately. It’s one of those open-source projects with some great users - think Netflix, Uber, etc.- yet has less visibility in the Java community than expected.

I hope to raise its profile here.

Before I talk about Temporal, I’ll cover my particular use case. Stay with me; this needs to be detailed.

Background

A side project I have is to create a Java API comparison tool that can be used to check if moving from version A to version B of a dependency will have issues. I’m looking beyond the simple class-to-class comparison, I intend to check for a more holistic view to find runtime and compile time problems that might occur within the dependency tree if you upgrade something.

Temporal on JAVAPRO International

Building a better Mouse Trap - web crawling with Temporal

Background