Of Daffy Bastards And Goofy F*cks In The Land Of The Lost: Integration Anti-Patterns From The Dark Side
Some organizations keep following the same legacy, bad practices even though they know better. They keep doing it right up until the unfortunate happens.
What is Authentication?
I’ve talked about authentication many times on ThinkMiddleware.com. It recently occurred to me that I have never devoted a blog post to defining authentication. I’ve had a section on the subject in a couple of different places, but I wanted to have an article to reference from other posts. So, here…
JBoss 4.x and DataSource Configuration
On JBoss 4.x, a MySQL datasource looks something like:
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.
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.
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.
Role Mapping & J2EE Security
The discussion of J2EE Security on the JBoss Application Server continues as Role Mapping is introduced.
Using OpenLdap as a User Repository with JBoss 4.3.x
This article continues our discussion of setting up J2EE Security in a JBoss 4.3.x container. In the last article, we completed the setup of an OpenLdap database that can be used as a User Repository.