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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.

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PG-3 for theoretical content and lack of depth

Last week, I have had the pleasure to travel to Denmark with a few colleagues and visit the JAOO conference in Arhus. As with all conference visits, drinks, late nights and early mornings for the first presentation make it a interesting but tiring experience.

Although you spend some time to thoroughly read through the [...]

Getting started with OSGi, for real

OSGi has been around for a while, and it has been moving rapidly towards the enterprise java development. There are still some miles to be covered before the mainstream enterprise development will move to OSGi, but the first steps have been made.

I don’t believe any developer will be prepared to package the entire code [...]

Feeling secure with Web Services – Part 3 – Digital Signature

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 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. [...]

How WTF’s improve code quality awareness

In my daily work, I am responsible for coaching and training of colleagues and co-workers with less experience. One of the primary issues I have to deal with is code quality. Of course, a developer will never deliberately produce bad code. So in order to improve quality, the developers have to gain quality awareness.

In [...]

Service orientation within applications

Many IT projects at large companies aim to make the company “SOA-proof”. What really concerns me is that time after time software architects tend to treat “XML Web Services” as a synonym for “Service”. In this article, I want to show that SOA may also exist within a single application.

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