Acegi Security and Site Minder
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I just finished integrating an existing Java application with SiteMinder using Acegi Security. While this was a worthwhile project, it required far more work than following the Acegi manual.
Easy LDAP access from Java with Spring
The Spring subproject, LDAP Template makes short work of using LDAP in a Java application
Sometimes it is hard to be a Java enthusiast. While just about anything can be implemented in Java, certain aspects of the Java API are maddeningly complicated. It seems the Java community has a propensity for obfuscating their implementation trying to provide flexibility. Thankfully for the LDAP API, we have the Spring project to provide a straight forward interface that hides the messy details.