Spring Remoting with Security and SSL
One of my favorite features of the Spring Framework is the Spring Remoting part, which enables you to expose any bean in a Spring Application Context as a remote service over HTTP. It’s fast, it’s...
View ArticleTesting Among the Clouds, Part 2
In a recent post I wrote about the particular problems we’ve been having with integration testing the Spring LDAP project and the use we’ve made of Amazon EC2 for solving these problems. In this post...
View ArticleWhat's New in Spring LDAP 1.3
We recently released Spring LDAP 1.3.0.RC1. This long awaited release contains a number of new features and bug fixes. In this post I’ll highlight some of the changes, pointing out some of my favorite...
View ArticleGetting Sound Working Properly on Ubuntu 8.10
Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop (Dell Precision M90) I’ve been having problems with getting the sound to work properly. I could get some applications working if I would change the...
View ArticleSimple Authentication Using Spring LDAP
It’s with great pleasure that we can now finally announce the final 1.3.0 version of Spring LDAP. It’s been a while since we’ve made a major release, but there’s quite a bit in this one to make up for...
View ArticleConfiguring Timeout with Apache HttpClient 4.0
Great news everyone: just recently an all-new version of Apache HttpClient was released. HttpClient is now part of the new initiative Apache HttpComponents, which seems to aim for a complete approach...
View ArticleSetting Up Grails Projects in IntelliJ Idea
Since I’ve started doing some stuff in Grails lately I’ve virtually been forced to start looking for an alternative IDE. I’ve been an Eclipse guy for the last five years or so; ever since I got out of...
View ArticleSpring Security For Real with Grails
Spring Security is one of the basic building blocks I use pretty much every time I’m constructing a web application. It’s a very mature and incredibly powerful security framework, one of its main...
View ArticleREST and XML using Spring MVC and Groovy
There’s one particular thing Groovy is really good for and that is working with XML. When I started playing around with the REST support in the latest version of Spring MVC I wanted to try using Spring...
View ArticleEnvironment-Specific Configuration of Spring Applications
Over and over I see projects struggling with the problem of parameters in property files that change in different environments; after all that’s pretty much the idea with the property files anyway – to...
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