AWS CDK MFA
The AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) is a welcome contribution to the “Infrastructure as Code” family. It is a development framework that allows you to configure AWS resources using programming…
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AWS CDK MFA
Sandboxing plugins in Java
Some Java applications need to be able to load plugins, in the form of .jar files, from untrusted sources, and execute code from such plugins with restricted permissions, for example…
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Sandboxing plugins in Java
Spring 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…
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Spring Security For Real with Grails
Simple 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…
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Simple Authentication Using Spring LDAP
Encrypting Properties With Jasypt
Properties are used in many Java applications as a simple way of separating parts that are likely to change, from the parts that are not that likely to change. Consider…
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Encrypting Properties With Jasypt
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…
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Spring Remoting with Security and SSL
A cool GMail feature
Google Mail will deliver a mail even though the recipient address ends with '+' and some more text, like john.doe+msn@gmail.com for example. This feature can be used to create an…
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A cool GMail feature