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Welcome to our blog about all kind of topics that are related to software development. We blog about:

SOA, BPM, EDA, ECM and all the other buzz words. Beware some post might not be so common as you think. We are not scared to go against main stream thoughts.

Technologies like java, maven, springframework, OSGi and front end technologies and frameworks like jQuery, DWR, Flex.

Finally to make this happen we need tools and of course a Mac (well some of us do). So we blog about that as well.

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Feeling secure with Web Services – Part 2

There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about Web Service security. Using password authentication doesn’t prevent unauthorized users to access your data, while SSL / HTTPS doesn’t give you any information about who is trying to access your services. And did you ever think of signing you messages with a digital signature?

In my [...]

Feeling secure with Web Services – Part 1 – The UsernameToken

Recently, I’ve been helping a customer with some Web Service issues. One of the problems was their limited knowledge of security in that area. He asked me to explain, in Jip and Janneke language [1] how SSL works and what it actually secures.

There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about Web Service security. [...]

Feeling secure with Web Services – Introduction

Recently, I’ve been helping a customer with some Web Service issues. One of the problems was their limited knowledge of security in that area. He asked me to explain, in Jip and Janneke language [1] how SSL works and what it actually secures.

There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about Web Service security. [...]

Spring application context loading tricks

The Spring classpath:-notation

As most of you probably know, the Spring Framework can load all sorts of resources into its application context from all sorts of sources. Especially it can do this from the classpath and the people over at SpringSource have even introduced their own URI “protocol” to make this easy: you can identify [...]

Why it’s difficult to be a software engineer at parties….

Picture yourself at a social gettogether of some general nature (i.e. not after work drinks with colleagues). For instance a friend’s birthday party. Now picture yourself in a conversation with some people you don’t know (other friends of your friend, say). And you’ve just introduced yourself as a software engineer (or a developer, or a [...]

Mac osx killer apps (part 2)

Some months ago I wrote an article with my favorite mac osx tools. I am using my mac more and more, with my current employer I can use it for almost everything I want. I do not have ms office, so sometimes I need to use my other laptop. I also use my other laptop [...]

Integrating flex 3 with spring security (formerly known as Acegi)

This blog item show a way of doing security, after some additional experience I consider this method as being non optimal. The server side does not change a lot (spring security configuration), but the client does. I explain my current solution is this blog post:Integration spring security and flex 3 the sequel/

This article [...]

Java 6 for Mac OSX leopard

A month a so a go I wrote this item about java 6 on the mac. It was a beta release an I had some issues with it, but it was workable. Now the real deal is ready to be installed. You can download it form the following url. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/javaformacosx105update1.html

Running the update [...]