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JEUS application server: The story continues
In a previous blog post I wrote about JEUS, a Java EE 7 certified application server that is popular in Korea but pretty much unknown elsewhere. In this follow up I'll report about the latest findings...
View ArticleJAAS in Java EE is not the universal standard you may think it is
The Java EE security landscape is complex and fragmented. There is the original Java SE security model, there is JAAS, there is JASPIC, there is JACC and there are the various specs like Servlet, EJB...
View ArticleImplementing container authorization in Java EE with JACC
A while back we looked at how container authentication is done in Java EE by using the JASPIC API. In this article we'll take a look at its authorization counterpart; JACC/JSR 115. JACC, which stands...
View ArticleWhat should be the minimum dependency requirements for the next major...
For the next major version of OmniFaces (2.x, planned for over a few months) we're currently looking at determining the minimum version of its dependencies. Specifically the minimum Java SE version is...
View ArticleImplementation components used by various Java EE servers
There are quite a lot of Java EE server implementations out there. There are a bunch of well known ones like JBoss, GlassFish and TomEE, and some less known ones like Resin and Liberty, and a couple of...
View ArticleJASPIC improvements in WebLogic 12.1.3
Yesterday WebLogic 12.1.3 was finally released. First of all congratulations to the team at Oracle for getting this release out of the door! :) Among the big news is that WebLogic 12.1.3 is now a mixed...
View ArticleJSF 2.3 wish list part I - Components
Over the last days several Java EE specs have published JSR proposals for their next versions. Today JSF published its proposal on the JSF mailing list, titled: Let's get started on JSF 2.3The JSR...
View ArticleHigh time to standardize Java EE converters?
A common task when developing Java EE applications is that of converting data. In JSF we convert objects to a string representation for rendering it inside an (HTML) response, and convert it back to an...
View ArticleGetting the target of value expressions
In the Java EE platform programmers have a way to reference values in beans via textual expressions. These textual expressions are then compiled by the implementation (via the Expression Language, AKA...
View ArticleJava EE process cycles and server availability
When we normally talk about the Java EE cycle time, we talk about the time it takes between major revisions of the spec. E.g. the time between Java EE 6 and Java EE 7. While this is indeed the leading...
View ArticleOmniFaces 2.0 RC1 available for testing
We are happy to announce that we have just released OmniFaces 2.0 release candidate 1. OmniFaces 2.0 is the first release that will depend on JSF 2.2 and CDI 1.1 from Java EE 7. Our Servlet dependency...
View ArticleHeader based stateless token authentication for JAX-RS
Authentication is a topic that comes up often for web applications. The Java EE spec supports authentication for those via the Servlet and JASPIC specs, but doesn't say too much about how to...
View ArticleOmniFaces 2.0 RC2 available for testing
After an intense debugging session following the release of OmniFaces 2.0, we have decided to release one more release candidate; OmniFaces 2.0 RC2. For RC2 we mostly focused on TomEE 2.0...
View ArticleOmniFaces 2.0 released!
After a poll regarding the future dependencies of OmniFaces 2.0 and tworelease candidates we're proud to announce that today we've finally released OmniFaces 2.0. OmniFaces 2.0 is a direct continuation...
View ArticleJSF and MVC 1.0, a comparison in code
One of the new specs that will debut in Java EE 8 will be MVC 1.0, a second MVC framework alongside the existing MVC framework JSF. A lot has been written about this. Discussions have mostly been about...
View ArticleJava EE authorization - JACC revisited part I
A while ago we took a look at container authorization in Java EE, which we saw was taken care of by a specification called JACC. We saw that JACC offered a clear standardized hook into what's often...
View ArticleJava EE authorization - JACC revisited part II
This is the second part of a series where we revisit JACC after taking an initial look at it last year. In the first part we somewhat rectified a few of the disadvantages that were initially discovered...
View ArticleThe most popular upcoming Java EE 8 technologies according to ZEEF users
I maintain a page on zeef.com about the upcoming Java EE 8 specification. On this page I collect all interesting links about the various sub-specs that will be updated or newly introduced in EE 8. The...
View ArticleThe most popular Java EE servers in 2014/2015 according to OmniFaces users
For a little over 3 months (from half of November 2014 to late February 2015) we had a poll on the OmniFaces website asking what AS (Application Server) people used with OmniFaces (people could select...
View ArticleJava EE authorization - JACC revisited part III
This is the third and final part of a series where we revisit JACC after taking an initial look at it last year. In the first part we mainly looked at various role mapping strategies, while the main...
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