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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…