Byte Slinger - java tag

Acegi Security and Site Minder

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:18:24 GMT

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

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:16:09 GMT

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.

Double escape clause

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:24:00 GMT

I must have had 10 questions on escape characters in Java in the last six weeks. Most of them were experienced folks that were project hopping and ran into an unexpected problem. In the end, they just missed some basics in the way languages handle escape characters. Here are a couple traps that caught the distracted.