Thomas Borg Salling

Motivation AISmessages was born in 2011. It was originally written for Java 7 and later upgraded for Java 8 (lambda expressions). Now is the time to upgrade it for Java 9 – with the biggest new feature being an encapsulation…

Introduction In recent posts I have shown how to decode AIS messages (what is AIS?), how to create a Spring Boot based AIS message decoder, and how to run this decoder in a Docker container. Today we will see how…

Recently, I showed how to use AISMessages to quickly build a Spring Boot based HTTP/JSON-service capable of converting NMEA-armoured AIS messages into JSON-based parsed AIS messages (what are AIS messages?). Now we want to make it even easier to get this…

To demonstrate how easy it is to parse AIS messages (what is an AIS message?) with my open source library AISmessages, this post shows how to create a Spring Boot based microservice which can receive NMEA strings via HTTP and…

One of the domains, that I’ve done the most work in is the maritime domain. One of the interesting technologies here is AIS – Automatic Identification System. So – what is AIS? Every ship larger than 300 BRT and all ships…

My name is Thomas. For 20+ years I’ve worked as an IT freelancer – programming for clients in defence, e-commerce, government agencies, financial companies, maritime companies, and more. The common denominator of my work has been system integration. The list…