dbutils... ORMS .. awesome

 https://testsortedset.wordpress.com/javasnippets/my-tiny-mini-orm-with-commons-dbutils-and-generics-2/

SSL or no SSL ?

 https://mkyong.com/webservices/jax-ws/java-security-cert-certificateexception-no-name-matching-localhost-found/

Fat runnable jars with maven

 First read this for the different ways:

https://www.baeldung.com/executable-jar-with-maven

If you have external/local jars, understand the problem:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/364114/can-i-add-jars-to-maven-2-build-classpath-without-installing-them

One possible dirty way:

https://github.com/stephenc/non-maven-jar-maven-plugin

Apache CXF and SOAP XML Logging

 Phew this one was tough..but managed to solve it eventually using the following:

https://newbedev.com/apache-cxf-loggingininterceptor-is-deprecated-what-to-use-instead

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56356503/how-to-log-soap-request-response-using-log4j2-in-separate-log-files-dynamically

And this one did the most work

https://newbedev.com/how-to-modify-the-raw-xml-message-of-an-outbound-cxf-request

In between, had to mess with Streams.. it was crazy:

https://newbedev.com/convert-outputstream-to-bytearrayoutputstream

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5923817/how-to-clone-an-inputstream/5924132#5924132

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33014035/write-from-output-stream-to-output-stream

Finally .. learnt alot again.