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20030216 Sunday February 16, 2003

Wrox Chapters: Round II I, like Dave, have been working my butt off all weekend to try and get my Wrox Chapters edited and returned by tomorrow. Can you imagine my jealousy when I say his post this morning saying he was done?! That bastard!! ;-)

As you can see, I've returned to mismanaging my time (i.e. blogging). I've finished the 2nd drafts of my Wrox Professional JSP chapters. The reviewers seemed to like my 1st drafts, especially the Performance and Debugging chapter, but that did not stop them from making hundreds of comments and thus burning two perfectly good weekends.

Dave - you had two weekends!! I'm even more jealous now! I only got one - think it had something to do with me turning my first chapter in a week late, and the second one in 3 weeks late!? Probably...

Oh well, I just finished my security chapter, and while it did eat up my entire weekend - I greatly enhanced it to be a much better chapter. Just as an indicator - it went from 21 pages to 40! Now it has a lot more examples and includes how-to's for configuring Tomcat's Realms (MemoryRealm, JDBCRealm, JNDIRealm and JAASRealm) and for implementing "Remember Me" functionality. The realm stuff was pretty cool - I setup OpenLDAP and was able to get that working with a JNDIRealm and also hooked a JAASRealm into the workgroup that my Windows machines belong to. As for the Remember Me feature, I figured out that I didn't need half the code I was using - which is always a good thing - making it much simpler to implement and understand. Tomorrow I'm taking the day off in hopes of finishing the Struts chapter. Wish me luck! Posted in Java at Feb 16 2003, 07:21:25 PM MST 2 Comments

Comments:

If it makes you feel any better, I too had to take a vacation day to finish up.

Posted by Dave Johnson on February 16, 2003 at 08:28 PM MST #

Me too and the week before Christmas! Still, only one more chapter to edit... :-)

Posted by Simon Brown on February 17, 2003 at 07:08 AM MST #

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