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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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