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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
One of the major challenges we've been facing in the Spring LDAP project is to make certain that the library works together with different LDAP servers. Different servers behave differently…
The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) is for LDAP programming what Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is for SQL programming. There are several similarities between JDBC and JNDI/LDAP (Java LDAP).…