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The Angular Mini-Book The Angular Mini-Book is a guide to getting started with Angular. You'll learn how to develop a bare-bones application, test it, and deploy it. Then you'll move on to adding Bootstrap, Angular Material, continuous integration, and authentication.

Spring Boot is a popular framework for building REST APIs. You'll learn how to integrate Angular with Spring Boot and use security best practices like HTTPS and a content security policy.

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This book shows you how to build an app with JHipster, and guides you through the plethora of tools, techniques and options you can use. Furthermore, it explains the UI and API building blocks so you understand the underpinnings of your great application.

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10+ YEARS


Over 10 years ago, I wrote my first blog post. Since then, I've authored books, had kids, traveled the world, found Trish and blogged about it all.

Raible Road Trip #8

I'm heading to the airport w/in the next hour to embark upon Raible Road Trip #8. My dad is meeting me in San Diego tonight and we're picking up my new bus tomorrow morning. From there, we're going to pick up a few supplies, get the oil changed and head out on the road. I'm taking our digital camera so I'll try to take lots of pictures. We have ideas for the route (maybe through Flagstaff?), but nothing is for sure. Our main goal is to avoid the heat since the bus has an aircooled engine. Our secondary goal is to make it back to Denver by Tuesday so my Dad can catch his flight back to Oregon. A side effect of all of this will be some good memories and hopefully a good story or two.

Posted in General at Jun 03 2004, 02:05:25 PM MDT 2 Comments

Using JAAS with Tomcat

Want to use JAAS with Tomcat? If so, you might want to checkout this Using Tomcat with JAAS tutorial.

Although it is possible to use JAAS within Tomcat as an authentication mechanism (JAASRealm), the flexibility of the JAAS framework is lost once the user is authenticated. This is because the principals are used to denote the concepts of "user" and "role", and are no longer available in the security context in which the webapp is executed. The result of the authentication is available only through request.getRemoteUser() and request.isUserInRole().

This reduces the JAAS framework for authorization purposes to a simple user/role system that loses its connection with the Java Security Policy. This tutorial's purpose is to put a full-blown JAAS authorisation implementation in place, using a few tricks to deal with some of Tomcat's idiosyncrasies.

Personally, request.isUserInRole() usually does everything I need. If I need something more than that, it's usually pretty easy to add some custom logic. Of course, if I ever need anything super robust, I'll probably use the Acegi Security System for Spring.

Posted in Java at Jun 03 2004, 10:30:27 AM MDT 3 Comments