From the monthly archives:

August 2005

dev2dev: JAAS and the HTTP Session Life Cycle

August 23, 2005

JAAS and the HTTP Session Life Cycle by Rajesh Shah — The J2EE security framework supports a transparent login process—even handling expired HTTP sessions with ease. Sometimes, however, you want to know that the user's session has expired. In this article, Rajesh Shah explores a small part of WebLogic Server's Security Framework in an attempt [...]

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Are clear-text passwords better than 2-way encrypted passwords?

August 22, 2005

Are clear-text passwords better and more secure than passwords encrypted using ciphers like AES, 3DES or other 2-way encryption technologies? I started thinking more about this after Dmitri Maximovich and I discussed Matt Luce's implementation of SecureDriverManagerDataSource as a replacement of Spring's implementation of javax.sql.Datasource (DriverManagerDataSource). Matt's implementation overrides the getPassword() and getConnectionFromDriverManager() [...]

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Spring and encrypted DataSource passwords

August 15, 2005

One of the limitations of using Spring outside of the traditional J2EE container is hard-coding database information inside the Spring configuration file. If you are deploying the application inside the container, you can simply reference the DataSource via JNDI and not have to provide login, password information about the database connection. To work [...]

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I'm at LinuxWorld – not really :(

August 12, 2005

I am in San Francisco this week on a business trip, staying at the Argent Hotel. The Argent is right across from Moscone Center, which is hosting LinuxWorld this week. It feels so weird to see all the Linux sessions, meetups, and BOFs happening in my hotel and the restaurants around here without [...]

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BEA's Rob Woollen blogs

August 10, 2005

Just discovered this on dev2dev.bea.com – Rob Woollen, the Über WebLogic geek or the WebLogic Server Lead Architect as he is officially known has started a blog. I've had the pleasure of meeting Rob several times at eWorld(s) and BEA Users Group events and he is really brilliant. Anyone that's spent any [...]

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Agile/Scrum – An Interactive Evening

August 8, 2005

The Milwaukee SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) groups next meeting will be held this Thursday (August 11th) at Wells Fargo in Menomonee Falls (Location/Directions).
The speaker is Pam Rostal and her presentation will comprise of an introductory talk followed by audience selection of the most important "agile" topics they'd like to cover before the evening is [...]

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OnJava.com – Give Your Business Logic a Framework with Drools

August 4, 2005

Give Your Business Logic a Framework with Drools by Paul Browne — It's almost too easy to express your business logic as a spaghetti-code fiasco. The result is hard to test, hard to maintain, and hard to update. Rule engines offer an alternative: express your business logic as rules, outside of your Java code, in [...]

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When Hibernate meets Spring

August 4, 2005

Naveen Balani continues his Spring series with a how-to guide to integrating Hibernate transactions with Spring aspect-oriented programming (AOP). The result is a persistence framework you can count on.

Introduction to the Spring framework
When Hibernate meets Springs

Spring, Hibernate, AOP

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Spamarrest offering 90-Day Free Trial to Mailblocks Users

August 3, 2005

I don't use SpamArrest today or know anything about them but I am going to check them out. SpamArrest is offering a free 90-day trail to Mailblocks users that want to move over to their service. It's cool to see a company that steps and attempts to woo away their customers for a [...]

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WebLogic & Session replication across clusters

August 1, 2005

I know I must have been asleep as I just found out today that WebLogic has an attribute value of replicated_if_clustered for the PersistentStoreType parameter.
WebLogic has a piece of functionality called In-Memory Replication that allows you to choose how HttpSessions are replicated across a cluster. Typical usage pattern is to enable this [...]

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