Reduce code noise with Groovy

Groovy’s concise syntax frees developers from typical Java™ constructs that are required for code compilation but don’t facilitate expressing what a program is really trying to accomplish. In this revival of the Practically Groovy series, Groovy developer and guest columnist J. Scott Hickey walks you through a series of comparisons between normal Java code and the same Groovy code to show you how this exciting language frees you to focus on the important aspects of coding.

June 20, 2009 | Filed Under Groovy | Leave a Comment 

JBoss ESB

If SOA is too expensive, complex or politically challenging, the technology won’t take off. How, then, is it possible to build an SOA that overcomes political and cost constraints? Driving an SOA strategy to success in a large organization requires a corporate-level CIO with the power to drive a vision, enforce a set of architectural goals and blueprints, and mediate financial allocations. To get a manageable SOA, you’ll need to start with SOA platforms that represent a relatively low investment. That’ll likely mean tools and platforms that are open source, with support and ecosystem benefits available at a low cost.

JBoss team have designed their own Service Bus: JBoss Enterprise Service Bus  is a robust SOA solution designed since the release 4.2 with build-in fail-over, load balancing and delayed message redelivery. JBossESB allows you to distribute service instances across many nodes. Each node can be a virtual or physical machine running one or more instances of JBossESB.

February 11, 2009 | Filed Under ESB, SOA | Leave a Comment 

How to use the agent sample application in WebLogic 10 - OpenSSO

This document describes to use the agent sample application in conjunction with the Weblogic 10.X Application Server and the J2EE Agent. Please note thatthe agent needs to be installed first before deploying this sample application.

January 10, 2009 | Filed Under SSO | Leave a Comment 

OpenSSO Fedlet Demo

I will try to demonstrate an IDP generating Fedlets, SP configuring and using this Fedlet for IDP initiated SSO, SP initiated SSO and transfer of identity attributes as part of the assertions from the IDP.

Here’s also the details and a write-up of steps of steps, which I’ve used for the setup.

January 9, 2009 | Filed Under SSO | Leave a Comment 

Using Adobe Flex in JSR-286 Portlets

This article shall show you how the Adobe Flex SDK can be used in a Portal environment to enhance the user interface for a Portlet. It has also previously been possible to use Flex with JSR-168 Portlets and alike [FlexPortal], but with the new Portlet 2.0 specification (JSR-286) some things have improved, such as the support for asynchronous requests, public render parameters and events. It will be shown what is possible with the technology combination Flex/Portlets and where the limits are.

November 15, 2008 | Filed Under Flex | Leave a Comment 

JBoss Federated SSO

The JBoss SSO Framework is a collection of components that software developers can easily integrate within their existing web applications to create a federation of trusted web sites. The framework has support for important SSO standards such as SAML.

November 14, 2008 | Filed Under SSO | Leave a Comment 

IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances

This series of IBM Redbooks publications is written for architects and administrators who need to understand the implemented architecture in WebSphere DataPower appliances to successfully deploy it as a secure and efficient enterprise service bus (ESB) product. These papers give a broad understanding of the new architecture and traditional deployment scenarios. They cover details about the implementation to help you identify the circumstances under which you should deploy DataPower appliances. They also provide a sample implementation and architectural best practices for an SOA message-oriented architecture in an existing production ESB environment.

The entire IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances series includes the following papers:

May 24, 2008 | Filed Under ESB | Leave a Comment 

Pass encrypted data through WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and convert it to a JMS payload

This article describes in detail how to instrument WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus to accept SOAP messages containing encrypted portions of data, perform protocol switching, and then forward these messages to a JMS topic where the service providers are registered. You will learn how to:

May 23, 2008 | Filed Under ESB | Leave a Comment 

WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances extension functions for certificate-based XML standard encryption

You will learn how it’s possible to use WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances to promote a PKI. You will learn how to dynamically select a service provider’s certificate, perform standard XML encryption, and forward the encrypted SOAP message to the ESB.

May 23, 2008 | Filed Under ESB | Leave a Comment 

WebSphere ESB for protocol switching of encrypted data

This article gives a complete overview of a real case scenario concerning the healthcare reservation system and described the architectural picture that has been adopted. You also saw step-by-step instructions on how to configure the ESB import binding.

May 23, 2008 | Filed Under ESB | Leave a Comment 

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