David Blevins
dblevins.bsky.social
David Blevins
@dblevins.bsky.social
A founder of the Apache TomEE, OpenEJB, Geronimo and MicroProfile projects. Member of Apache, EE4J PMC, Jakarta EE WG. CEO @Tomitribe
Claude was annoying me with endless prompts to search ~/.m2 and inspect code.

Jackknife Maven Plugin:
- Indexes your project deps
- Decompiles full jars, lazily
- Injects debug bytecode into jars

tomitribe.github.io/jackknife/

#Claude #Java #Maven
Jackknife
Bytecode instrumentation for Java. Built for Claude, useful for everyone.
tomitribe.github.io
March 27, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Pixie 2.12 released! Extensive support for generics. Improved factory method and builder support.

Same tiny jar. Same simple configuration. Perfect for your tiniest plain-java projects.

#Java #DI #DependencyInjection #Configuration
Pixie Documentation
Documentation for Pixie by Tomitribe
tomitribe.github.io
March 20, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Crest 0.40 hot off the presses. Java CLI library modeled after JAX-RS

tomitribe.github.io/crest/

#Java #CLI
Crest — Command-Line API for Java
Annotation-driven framework for building command-line tools in Java, styled after JAX-RS.
tomitribe.github.io
March 9, 2026 at 3:03 AM
JAWS 2.1.0 released!

S3 File name annotations @Prefix, @Suffix, @Match, and @Filter used to filter listing can now also validate files being created.

Simplified one-level deep vs recursive semantics via new @Recursive annotation.

tomitribe.github.io/jaws/changel...

#Java #AWS #S3
Typed Proxies - JAWS — Java AWS S3
Strongly-typed, proxy-based Java abstraction for Amazon S3
tomitribe.github.io
March 4, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Java AWS S3 users, you need this library. I promise you.

Eliminates boilerplate (error prone) code. Replaces it with strongly-typed directory structures you define with interfaces.
tomitribe.github.io/jaws/

#Java #AWS #S3
JAWS — Java AWS S3 - JAWS — Java AWS S3
Strongly-typed, proxy-based Java abstraction for Amazon S3
tomitribe.github.io
March 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Just released: Checkmate 1.0. Fluent #Java API styled after Stream and Optional. Prints a series of checks in Linux-startup style.

github.com/tomitribe/ch...
June 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Just released. Pixie, a tiny magical DI, config and eventing library for your smallest apps github.com/tomitribe/pi...

#Java #OSS #DependencyInjection #Config #NoOverkill
GitHub - tomitribe/pixie: Tiny but powerful library creating your java objects with a bit of magical pixie dust
Tiny but powerful library creating your java objects with a bit of magical pixie dust - tomitribe/pixie
github.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM