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Articles, tutorials, and field notes on identity, integration, API management, and application security — spanning nearly two decades of hands-on work.
Secure Identity Propagation using WS-Trust, WS-Security, and SAML2
I gave the following presentation at IBM Impact in April, 2011.
HTTP Client – Form-Based Authentication
This article continues the discussion started in the Servlet Authentication article. Here we discuss Form-Based authentication; another common form of authentication when Servlet technology is used.
Servlet Container Authentication
There are three required authentication mechanisms supported by a compliant Servlet Container: HTTP Basic Authentication, Form-based Authentication, and CLIENT_CERT authentication. There is a fourth authentication method, DIGEST, that isn’t used very often in my experience. This final…
Summary of J2EE Specs
If you were ever looking for a summary of each version of the J2EE Spec, it can take a few minutes to find it. So, here is a summary. The J2EE Specification is actually collection of numerous different Java-based technology specifications.
JBossWorld 2010 Session — Securing JBoss Services
On June 24, 2010, I gave a presentation at JBoss World in Boston. This was my second time at JBoss World. The presentation covered Securing JBoss Services. It explored the use of JaasSecurityDomain MBeans to configure SSL in JBoss 4.3 (also relevent for newer versions of JBoss) for various…
JAX-WS Example With JBossWS – Server-Side
In previous article, a very simple Web Application was presented. In any complex environment, there will often be multiple tiers within an application or environments hosting code/services for different teams. A common way of communicating within such environments is through SOAP-based Web Services…
Running JBoss on an OpenJDK6 build
Recently, I had some free time and set out to bring up JBoss on OpenJDK6. In particular, I wanted to Run JBoss on an OpenJDK build that I personally compiled.
J2EE Security Series
An Openldap Directory Server JBoss 4.3.x Setup Adding Groups To OpenLdap Using OpenLdap as a User Repository with JBoss 4.3.x
Securing The JBoss JAAS Subject Reader Application with J2EE Security
This article continues the J2EE Security Series from the past few months. Here we expand the Simple J2EE Web Application that was introduced in this article to use J2EE Security.
HTTP(S) URLs & Context Roots
What is a URL? What is a context root? It’s helpful to understand these things when writing or working with web applications.
A Simple Web Application
In order to test J2EE Security with the Security Realm and Openldap User Repository we created in the last article in this series, we need an application to protect. The focus of this article is to create a very simple web application that can be protected by J2EE Security.
J2EE Security
The article continues the series discussing J2EE Security and its related concepts. The following brings together the numerous concepts discussed in the past articles.