Securing a system environment or just even a web application can be a tricky undertaking. You will even face some challenges when trying to secure Apache Tomcat. I recently introduced myself about how to secure Tomcat. This article will show you, how to establish general secure Tomcat instances on Unix or Linux in twelve steps.
This article is a tutorial about how to implement an authentication mechanism in Apache Tomcat 6 by using a JNDI datasource for looking up users, their passwords and roles. It shows how to prepare Tomcat 6 for using a so called DataSourceRealm and describes how web applications can be secured by a security realm. The [...]
The integration of Spring and its context into a JSP (Java Server Pages) based environment like JSP itself or JSF is supported pretty well. But the bridge between Spring and Apache Axis or even other Servlet based frameworks and libraries has often to be build by yourself. This article describes one possible method for integrating [...]
It is coming silent but all the more powerful: Apache Sling. Sling’s slogan: “Bringing back the fun.”. Well, yeah. It does! This article is about its concepts and everything you have to know about it. Important links and tutoring resources, what Apache Sling is, why it is powerful and why I like it even whithout [...]
JCR, also known as Java Content Repository or Content Repository for Java Technology API, actually consists of two specifications: JSR-170 describing JCR 1.0 and JSR-283 describing JCR 2.0. Both standards are intended to access content repositories in an uniform manner. First, it was developed by Day Software, but then partially given to the Apache Software [...]
Der Spassige Teil Nachdem ich soviel über Rechtsformen, Besteuerung, Bilanzierung und Verwaltungsthemen recherchiert und gelesen habe wurde es für mich Zeit für etwas Abwechselung. Ab in den etwas technischeren Bereich meines Projektes. Wie sieht es denn eigentlich mit dem Servlet-Hosting aus? Managed Hosting-Packages Es gibt fertige Servlet-Hosting Pakete auf Basis von Apache Tomcat. Leider sind [...]
Am 10.02.2008 hat es begonnen Offiziell fing ich zu diesem Termin an mich um die Machbarkeit, Spezifikation und Umsetzung meiner Idee zu kümmern. Ich merkte schnell, dass das Projekt Wotan ein sehr grosses Unterfangen für eine einzelne Person darstellt. Ich brauchte einen Partner. Also stellte ich mein Vorhaben meinem besten Freund vor, den ich bereits seit [...]