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.
For book updates, follow @angular_book on Twitter.
The JHipster Mini-Book is a
guide to getting started with hip technologies today: Angular, Bootstrap, and Spring
Boot. All of these frameworks are wrapped up in an easy-to-use project called JHipster.
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.
For book updates, follow @jhipster-book on Twitter.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! This year I'm thankful for continued employment, a thriving Java community and an awesome family. Abbie and Julie are the most incredible women I've ever met. My parents, sister, and in-laws deserve a "Thank You" as well - you all rock. Here's a smile from Abbie to brighten your Turkey Day. 
I'm digging into JAAS this afternoon as I enjoy the vacancy of the Winter Break at DU's Penrose Library. Man, what a great school - I used to love it when we'd get off 6 weeks for Christmas Break - from Thanksgiving through January - how sweet is that!?
The reason I'm writing on this cold (32°F) afternon is to get some thoughts on JAAS in web applications. I'm giving it about a paragraph of coverage, explaining that it's mainly for declaring authentication and authorization in policy files. Furthermore, it's only invoked when running your application (or Tomcat) with a security manager. However, it's not really needed in web applications because 1) container-managed/web.xml is good enough, and 2) authentication mechanisms never really need to be that fine-grained. Whaddya think? Am I wrong, does it deserve more coverage? Don't most app servers use JAAS under the covers?
I would like to thank my wonderful family and my great friends for making my life a blast to live! I'm also thankful for good health and the micro-breweries of Colorado, Montana and Oregon.
I'd also like to thank the blogging community (particlarly you java.blogs gents) for making the web fun again. Now go get some good eats and tell your family I said Hi! 
