David Siegel discusses the Power of Pull; a different view of the Semantic Web? | The Semantic Web| ZDNet.com
Siegel wrote books such as Futurize Your Enterprise and Creating Killer Websites (both impressive books, though at a view from 10000 feet).
In his new book "Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business" he suggests that using Semantic Web (though not just W3c technologies such as OWLS, RDF SPARCQL) can be the savior for web enabled businesses (and those who aren't :-)
What IS interesting is that Google are in an indirect way doing this - "PULLing" past information to make interesting deductions for the present. It's sometimes spooky how their data mining algorithms work - check the advertisements displayed from gmail.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
motorola milestone - finally rooted
not in a bad sense, rather I managed to get my phone updated to Android 2.01
(since I have a british milestone from expansys.com.au, it gets its update from europe motorola via the internet),
Menu -> Settings -> System Updates ... & it runs for while....
When complete, you can now root.
Follow instructions from http://news.lehsys.com/?p=7537
1. download http://rapidshare.de/files/49019165/milestone_root.zip and rename to /sdcard/update.zip
2. switch off phone
3. hold camera button. Then power on.
4. When you get the triangle screen, release the power & camera button
5. Now tricky bit: Press Volume+ button & camera simultaneously. I had to attempt this about 10 times to get it to work
6. Now you get a list of options - Open the keyboard, use the navigation pad to select "Update from SD card."
7. Use the centre pad key to select - what ever you do, don't choose the "Format SD card" or "Hard Reset" options!!
8. You should see an updating screen - this may have an error message, but as long as you see the message "Rooting phone" (or similar :-), it has worked
9. Reboot the phone
10. Assuming it all booted up & you get your normal phone scree, start a Terminal emulator (I used ConnectBot or "Android Terminal Emulator (Jack Palevich)" from the Android Market, others use "Terminal Emulator" but this gives me the dreaded Force Close message)
11. Type su to get root access!!! ps: Android throws up a big screen "The following application has requested Superuser access to the phone". Select Yes.
ps: sometimes su hangs. I have to restart the terminal emulator to get it working again.
now for linux tools for android: http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/299984/linux-tools-coming-to-mcr/ & http://alldroid.org/threads/16201-HOW-TO-Root-Extras-Telus-Motorola-Milestone
(since I have a british milestone from expansys.com.au, it gets its update from europe motorola via the internet),
Menu -> Settings -> System Updates ... & it runs for while....
When complete, you can now root.
Follow instructions from http://news.lehsys.com/?p=7537
1. download http://rapidshare.de/files/49019165/milestone_root.zip and rename to /sdcard/update.zip
2. switch off phone
3. hold camera button. Then power on.
4. When you get the triangle screen, release the power & camera button
5. Now tricky bit: Press Volume+ button & camera simultaneously. I had to attempt this about 10 times to get it to work
6. Now you get a list of options - Open the keyboard, use the navigation pad to select "Update from SD card."
7. Use the centre pad key to select - what ever you do, don't choose the "Format SD card" or "Hard Reset" options!!
8. You should see an updating screen - this may have an error message, but as long as you see the message "Rooting phone" (or similar :-), it has worked
9. Reboot the phone
10. Assuming it all booted up & you get your normal phone scree, start a Terminal emulator (I used ConnectBot or "Android Terminal Emulator (Jack Palevich)" from the Android Market, others use "Terminal Emulator" but this gives me the dreaded Force Close message)
11. Type su to get root access!!! ps: Android throws up a big screen "The following application has requested Superuser access to the phone". Select Yes.
ps: sometimes su hangs. I have to restart the terminal emulator to get it working again.
now for linux tools for android: http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/299984/linux-tools-coming-to-mcr/ & http://alldroid.org/threads/16201-HOW-TO-Root-Extras-Telus-Motorola-Milestone
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Axis2: Why bother?
The BileBlog - Axis2: Why bother?
Bit harsh but very true - axis2 is not really a usable system. Sun's metro stack is way better. Just trying to get axis2's wsdl2java working resulted in me breaking a tooth in anger.
What get's my goat about Eclipse is it's linkages to Apache - the Web Tools Project webservices stuff deals only with Axis and it's ilk.
Oh yeah, there is a new Apache CXF interface which at least implements a marginally better product. But just check out the predic8 blog entry: http://www.predic8.com/axis2-cxf-jax-ws-comparison.htm
I'll quote it here for your reference:
Another post is: http://www.arobs.com/innovationtech/tag/axis2-vs-cxf-vs-metro/ ps: this seems to be mostly a cut and paste from Thomas's blog... mmm ggrr.
And also: http://srikanthnukala.net/devblog/2009/06/29/axis2-vs-jax-ws-vs-apache-cxf-vc-spring-ws/
My problem is that Eclipse only supports the Apache products with the web services client generator.
Bugger them.
Bit harsh but very true - axis2 is not really a usable system. Sun's metro stack is way better. Just trying to get axis2's wsdl2java working resulted in me breaking a tooth in anger.
What get's my goat about Eclipse is it's linkages to Apache - the Web Tools Project webservices stuff deals only with Axis and it's ilk.
Oh yeah, there is a new Apache CXF interface which at least implements a marginally better product. But just check out the predic8 blog entry: http://www.predic8.com/axis2-cxf-jax-ws-comparison.htm
I'll quote it here for your reference:
WS-* Standards
The support of the WS-Standard family can also be decisive for the selection of a SOAP engine. For example, messages sent to services can be secured with signatures as described in the Web Service Security standard (in short WSS). Table 1 shows the support for WS*-Standards of the toolkits.
| Standards | Axis2 | CXF | JAX-WS/Metro |
|---|---|---|---|
| WS-Addressing | X | X | X |
| WS-Coordination | X(2) | X | |
| WS-MetadataExchange | X | ||
| WS-Policy | X | X | X |
| WS-ReliableMessaging | X(3) | X | X |
| Web Services Security | X(1) | X(4) | X |
| WS-SecureConversation | X(1) | X | |
| WS-SecurityPolicy | X | ||
| WS-Transaction | X(2) | X | |
| WS-Trust | X | X | |
| WS-Federation |
Table 1: Support for WS-* Standards (stand: Juli 2008)
(1) Supported by the additional module Apache Rampart
(2) Supported by the additional module Apache Kandula2
(3) Supported by the additional module Apache Sandesha2
(4) By Apache WSS4J Interceptor
(2) Supported by the additional module Apache Kandula2
(3) Supported by the additional module Apache Sandesha2
(4) By Apache WSS4J Interceptor
Who just wants to code against the standard is well advised with the JAX-WS implementation. The enterprise pack of the Netbeans development environment supports JAX-WS RI very well. Only a few clicks are needed to build a server or to call a Web Service
Another post is: http://www.arobs.com/innovationtech/tag/axis2-vs-cxf-vs-metro/ ps: this seems to be mostly a cut and paste from Thomas's blog... mmm ggrr.
And also: http://srikanthnukala.net/devblog/2009/06/29/axis2-vs-jax-ws-vs-apache-cxf-vc-spring-ws/
My problem is that Eclipse only supports the Apache products with the web services client generator.
Bugger them.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Oscars for former UTS students
From an internal email"
Congratulations to the following computer graphics students:
Glenn Sharah, who is credited on Avatar as a Shader Writer. Avatar won the
Academy Award for best visual effects.
Andre Mazzone, who is credited on Star Trek as a Research and Development
Programmer. Star Trek was nominated for best visual effects.
This is not the first time that these people have been up.
How many gadgets?
How many mobile gadgets did these boys have?
Mark only had 2.
I had 2.
But I also have about another 4 hanging around in various places.
Sigh.
Mark only had 2.
I had 2.
But I also have about another 4 hanging around in various places.
Sigh.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
How Plastic Bottles Are Poisoning Babies | newmatilda.com
Now I understand why Kathmandu are claiming their new water bottles are BPA free...
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Multivitamin Comparison - From Empty Air to Massively Boosting Health
Multivitamin Comparison - From Empty Air to Massively Boosting Health
Good Grief, it seems that Berocca Performance (3%) is just lolly water.
Of all things, Amway Nutriway is 27% and GNC Livewell is 26%.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
"Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries" by A.E. Housman
(ending track from the 1980 movie "The Dogs of War", sung by Gillian McPherson)
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling,
And took their wages, and are dead.
Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and earth's foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay.
A.E. Housman
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
BRW tries to stop copying of it's content
BRW is using a new trick to stop the likes of google and traditional cut and paste:
Bots, bugs and bellyaches
They use stylesheets to mix up the letters! So if you look at the source code, you see junk:
Y u n w h t l a a e b u b i d n a e t r o s
instead of
You know that old adage about building a better mouse
In fact, the actual source code looks like this:
Bots, bugs and bellyaches
They use stylesheets to mix up the letters! So if you look at the source code, you see junk:
Y u n w h t l a a e b u b i d n a e t r o s
instead of
You know that old adage about building a better mouse
In fact, the actual source code looks like this:
Y u n w h t l a a e b u
b i d n a e t r o s t a
l a i g o h i v n i n f
b t e m u e? t a a w l
h v b e w i t n o c m u e s
n c m u e v r s s, h c b g n
s o u p o r m i g l t h s
p e d i C a d a e o p e
a o g i h h t c n l g t u e
u t b u e e y e n i a i a l
t t a s i t e s l e f o
u s s e t n e d s r o n u p c i g n u e .
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
iphone/ipod touch location services
Well... it seems that Apple use Skyhook to do more accurate location based services than I expected.
I always thought the iPhone 3G simply used A-GPS and cell triangulation to determine your position - yet it was wildly accurate INSIDE my office....
turns out they use Wireless Location services - Skyhook have a massive database (using wardriving) of all the MAC addresses of wifi access points, and use this to determine your geographical location (in combination with GPS, A-GPS and cell triangulation),
heck, they even pay drivers to wardrive around the world.
Coverage is mostly densely urban europe, north america, australia and some asia (tokyo-osaka, HK, taipei, seoul, bangkok, beijing).
I always thought the iPhone 3G simply used A-GPS and cell triangulation to determine your position - yet it was wildly accurate INSIDE my office....
turns out they use Wireless Location services - Skyhook have a massive database (using wardriving) of all the MAC addresses of wifi access points, and use this to determine your geographical location (in combination with GPS, A-GPS and cell triangulation),
heck, they even pay drivers to wardrive around the world.
Coverage is mostly densely urban europe, north america, australia and some asia (tokyo-osaka, HK, taipei, seoul, bangkok, beijing).
Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Monday, November 09, 2009
j2moose - how to reverse engineer j2ee
Saw this interesting research project:
Enabling the evolution of J2EE applications through reverse engineering and quality assurance
To quote:
To address the complexity of enterprise applications, J2EE offers a conglomerate of several technologies, (e.g. Enterprise Java Beans - EJB or Java Server Pages - JSP) using several languages, (e.g. Java, XML or SQL). In this context, simply applying existing reverse engineering and quality assurance techniques developed for object-oriented systems fails due to two major reasons:
analyzing only the Java source code overlooks the information written in other languages such as the XML configurations, the JSP files, the database structure or the SQL statements, and
even when analyzing the Java source code we need to consider the technology specific patterns (e.g. implementing specific interfaces).
This project aims to conduct a systematic study in reverse engineering and quality assurance of J2EE applications. In particular, we target the following questions each of them being addressed in a separate track:
How do we model J2EE to support analysis of the different languages?
What defines internal quality in J2EE applications and how do we measure it?
How do we visualize the diversity of languages to support understanding of J2EE applications?
Doc: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/projects/Gurt06aJSP.pdf
Master: http://moose.unibe.ch/about
Description: http://scg.unibe.ch/research/hasler07
The implications for me: I want something to do automated marking for J2EE assignments. Basically a first pass would reverse engineer the submitted code, decide/visualise the model with certain matrices and then award a technical mark.
Humans (tutors) would then mark the assignment for completeness, correctness and qualitative measures such as "ease of use", "look and feel", "niceness" :-)
Enabling the evolution of J2EE applications through reverse engineering and quality assurance
To quote:
To address the complexity of enterprise applications, J2EE offers a conglomerate of several technologies, (e.g. Enterprise Java Beans - EJB or Java Server Pages - JSP) using several languages, (e.g. Java, XML or SQL). In this context, simply applying existing reverse engineering and quality assurance techniques developed for object-oriented systems fails due to two major reasons:
analyzing only the Java source code overlooks the information written in other languages such as the XML configurations, the JSP files, the database structure or the SQL statements, and
even when analyzing the Java source code we need to consider the technology specific patterns (e.g. implementing specific interfaces).
This project aims to conduct a systematic study in reverse engineering and quality assurance of J2EE applications. In particular, we target the following questions each of them being addressed in a separate track:
How do we model J2EE to support analysis of the different languages?
What defines internal quality in J2EE applications and how do we measure it?
How do we visualize the diversity of languages to support understanding of J2EE applications?
Doc: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/projects/Gurt06aJSP.pdf
Master: http://moose.unibe.ch/about
Description: http://scg.unibe.ch/research/hasler07
The implications for me: I want something to do automated marking for J2EE assignments. Basically a first pass would reverse engineer the submitted code, decide/visualise the model with certain matrices and then award a technical mark.
Humans (tutors) would then mark the assignment for completeness, correctness and qualitative measures such as "ease of use", "look and feel", "niceness" :-)
Friday, October 23, 2009
weblogic weirdness with @webservice @stateless beans
Weblogic 10.3 has a weird bug.
If you annotate a Stateless session bean, then add @WebService to it, it won't deploy and will give a strange message about xxxbean_xxx_WSOImpl.class not found.
Turns out that there is an SERVER side cache in your domain directory which confuses the EJB compiler and deploy tool
Remove the entire contents of $DOMAIN/servers/AdminServer/cache/EJBCompilerCache/*
(where $DOMAIN is your weblogic domain directory)
Oh, you also need to give your stateless bean a mappedName eg:
@Stateless(name="crapBean", mappedName="ejb/crapBean")
If you annotate a Stateless session bean, then add @WebService to it, it won't deploy and will give a strange message about xxxbean_xxx_WSOImpl.class not found.
Turns out that there is an SERVER side cache in your domain directory which confuses the EJB compiler and deploy tool
Remove the entire contents of $DOMAIN/servers/AdminServer/cache/EJBCompilerCache/*
(where $DOMAIN is your weblogic domain directory)
Oh, you also need to give your stateless bean a mappedName eg:
@Stateless(name="crapBean", mappedName="ejb/crapBean")
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
AMIS Technology blog � Blog Archive � EJB Dependency Injection of Session Bean Facade in JSF 1.2 on WebLogic 10.3 (JSF with JPA)
AMIS Technology blog � Blog Archive � EJB Dependency Injection of Session Bean Facade in JSF 1.2 on WebLogic 10.3 (JSF with JPA)
Also ork around for the issue of not being able to dependency inject Session Bean directly into JSF Managed Beans http://softquipeut.blogspot.com/2007/12/injection-dun-ejb-dans-un-back-bean-jsf.html
Also ork around for the issue of not being able to dependency inject Session Bean directly into JSF Managed Beans http://softquipeut.blogspot.com/2007/12/injection-dun-ejb-dans-un-back-bean-jsf.html
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard - Slides in 3 Minutes on Vimeo
I've often admired graphic designers.
How they combine technology and creativity constantly amazes me.
Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard - Slides in 3 Minutes on Vimeo
How they combine technology and creativity constantly amazes me.
Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard - Slides in 3 Minutes on Vimeo
Monday, September 14, 2009
XRX: Simple, Elegant, Disruptive - O'Reilly XML Blog
XRX: Simple, Elegant, Disruptive - O'Reilly XML Blog
XForms on the client
REST interfaces
and XQuery on the server
XForms on the client
REST interfaces
and XQuery on the server
Monday, August 24, 2009
Programmer Competency Matrix
Programmer Competency Matrix | IndianGeek
A very true list of what programmers need have to be uber gurus.
A very true list of what programmers need have to be uber gurus.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Oracle workshop for weblogic 10g3 missing JPA
It seems that Oracle in it's wisdom deliberately removed JPA tools from Oracle Workshop for Weblogic 10g3.
The simple solution? Copy the feature from an existing Europa 3.3.2 WTP install.
For some reason, you can't use the eclipse update manager (Webtools update site) to download it - Oracle zapped the file I think? They only seem to offer the later Dali version, which of course doesn't work on the current europa based Workshop 10g3
The files to copy are:
The simple solution? Copy the feature from an existing Europa 3.3.2 WTP install.
For some reason, you can't use the eclipse update manager (Webtools update site) to download it - Oracle zapped the file I think? They only seem to offer the later Dali version, which of course doesn't work on the current europa based Workshop 10g3
The files to copy are:
- features/org.eclipse.jpt.feature_1.0.2.v200802140100-77-7_CYQCD2CaLYCHCD
- plugins/
- org.eclipse.jpt.core_1.0.2.v200802140100.jar
- org.eclipse.jpt.db.ui_1.0.0.v200705300001.jar
- org.eclipse.jpt.db_1.0.2.v200802140100.jar
- org.eclipse.jpt.doc.user_1.0.1.v200709120000.jar
- org.eclipse.jpt.gen_1.0.2.v200802140100.jar
- org.eclipse.jpt.ui_1.0.2.v200802140100.jar
- org.eclipse.jpt.utility_1.0.2.v200802140100.jar
I actually made an eclipse extension directory for this, but really, this should be dumped into the bea/tools/eclipse_pkgs/2.0/eclipse_3.3.2/eclipse directory since this is really really the original eclipse europa. SILLY BEA/ORACLE!!!
You also need the Data Tools Project, get as a minimum 1.5.2 version: ie:
Update manager: Europa Discovery Site -> Database Development & -> Enabling Features -> Data Tools Platform JDT enablement
This downloads:
- org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.feature
- org.eclipse.datatools.modelbase.feature
- org.eclipse.datatools.sqldevtools.feature
- org.eclipse.datatools.enablement.feature
- org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.db.generic.ui
- org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.db.generic
- org.eclipse.datatools.doc.user
See the tutorial at http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/dali
IMPORTANT NOTE: this is only Dali 1.0, so use the 1.0 tutorial at as an example tutorial
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Eclipse ganymede with Hibernate
Here is the KLUDGE way of doing hibernate with ganymede.
http://edemmorny.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/using-eclipse-dali-with-hibernate-as-persistence-provider/
In the past (actually very near past), you simply had a hibernate facet against your dynamic web project. You then loaded the libraries as needed.
Now you do stupid stuff like the old days, add stuff by hand.... this defeats the purpose of an IDE!!
I D I O T S.
http://edemmorny.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/using-eclipse-dali-with-hibernate-as-persistence-provider/
In the past (actually very near past), you simply had a hibernate facet against your dynamic web project. You then loaded the libraries as needed.
Now you do stupid stuff like the old days, add stuff by hand.... this defeats the purpose of an IDE!!
I D I O T S.
Eclipse ganymede - more rants
Well it seems eclipse Ganymede Java EE version now discards many useful tools from Europa.
for example, you no longer have struts or hibernate facets in dynamic web projects.
This stupid decision is one for the dogs.
I also noticed that the default JPA providers are Eclipselink and Oracle (Bea) Kodo. Odd that both oracle projects got on the list but the #1 popular provider (Hibernate) didn't make it.
This is an example of political decisions at Eclipse making the product worse , not better, and more exclusive, not inclusive.
Here's another one - the default web service code is all based on Apache Axis. Now don't get me wrong, Axis is ok, but Axis2 is bloatware. So where is the Metro toolkit here? Ahah, nope, Apache (Sanjeva/Dave) koolaid at work here ("let's make axis more popular by excluding the web services stack used by glassfish, weblogic etc").
Oh, you mean IBM is part of the eclipse council? mmmm, no co-incidence that Axis is part of the IBM stacks now ... ??
for example, you no longer have struts or hibernate facets in dynamic web projects.
This stupid decision is one for the dogs.
I also noticed that the default JPA providers are Eclipselink and Oracle (Bea) Kodo. Odd that both oracle projects got on the list but the #1 popular provider (Hibernate) didn't make it.
This is an example of political decisions at Eclipse making the product worse , not better, and more exclusive, not inclusive.
Here's another one - the default web service code is all based on Apache Axis. Now don't get me wrong, Axis is ok, but Axis2 is bloatware. So where is the Metro toolkit here? Ahah, nope, Apache (Sanjeva/Dave) koolaid at work here ("let's make axis more popular by excluding the web services stack used by glassfish, weblogic etc").
Oh, you mean IBM is part of the eclipse council? mmmm, no co-incidence that Axis is part of the IBM stacks now ... ??
Eclipse Ganymede update sux
It turns out that Eclipse 3.4 ganymede turns of the "classic" update by default in anything except bare bones Eclipse.
You don't even have the GUI option of turning it off.
Well this web site (http://hamandeggs.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/eclipse-34-ganymede-and-classic-update/ ) shows you how to turn it back on!!
YAY!. P2 Sux.
You don't even have the GUI option of turning it off.
Well this web site (http://hamandeggs.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/eclipse-34-ganymede-and-classic-update/ ) shows you how to turn it back on!!
YAY!. P2 Sux.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Demonstration of Sherlock - Plagiarism | Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences
Demonstration of Sherlock - Plagiarism | Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences
anti plagarism detection tool
see also moss.stanford.edu
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
10 dying IT skills | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
10 dying IT skills | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
To quote the article:
There are some things in life, like good manners, that never go out of style. And there are other things, like clothing styles, that fall in and out of fashion. But when an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here’s our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills is your main expertise, perhaps it’s time to think about updating your skill set.
To quote the article:
There are some things in life, like good manners, that never go out of style. And there are other things, like clothing styles, that fall in and out of fashion. But when an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here’s our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills is your main expertise, perhaps it’s time to think about updating your skill set.
Note: This article is based on a Global Knowledge white paper by Linda Leung.
1: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM was popular in the late 90s, particularly among carriers, as the answer to overworked frame relay for wide-area networking. It was considered more scalable than frame relay and offered inherent QoS support. It was also marketed as a LAN platform, but that was its weakness. According to Wikipedia, ATM failed to gain wide acceptance in the LAN where IP makes more sense for unifying voice and data on the network. Wikipedia notes that ATM will continue to be deployed by carriers that have committed to existing ATM deployments, but the technology is increasingly challenged by speed and traffic shaping requirements of converged voice and data networks. A growing number of carriers are now using Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), which integrates the label-switching capabilities of ATM with the packet orientation of IP. IT skills researcher Foote Partners listed ATM in its IT Skills and Certification Pay Index as a non-certified IT skill that has decreased in value in the last six month of 2008.
2: Novell NetWare
Novell’s network operating system was the de facto standard for LANs in the 1990s, running on more than 70% of enterprise networks. But Novell failed to compete with the marketing might of Microsoft. Novell tried to put up a good fight by acquiring WordPerfect to compete with Windows Office, but that move failed to ignite the market, and Novell eventually sold WordPerfect to Corel in 1996. Novell certifications, such as Certified Novell Engineer, Master Certified Novell Engineer, Certified Novell Certified Directory Engineer, and Novell Administrator, were once hot in the industry. But now, they are featured in Foote Partners’ list of skills that decreased in value in 2008. Hiring managers want Windows Server and Linux skills instead.
3: Visual J++
Skills pay for Microsoft’s version of Java declined 37.5% last year, according to the Foote Partners’ study. The life of J++, which is available with Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, was not a smooth one. Although Sun Microsystems licensed Java to Microsoft to develop J++, Microsoft failed to implement some features of the official Java standard while implementing other extensions of its own. Sun sued Microsoft for licensing violations in a legal wrangle that lasted three years. Microsoft eventually replaced J++ with Microsoft .NET.
4: Wireless Application Protocol
Yes, people were able to browse the Internet in the late 90s before Apple’s iPhone. Web site operators would rewrite their content to the WAP’s Wireless Markup Language, enabling users to access Web services such as email, stock results and news headlines using their cell phones and PDAs. WAP was not well received at the beginning because WAP sites were slow and lacked the richness of the Web. WAP has also seen different levels of uptake worldwide because of the different wireless regulations and standards around the world. WAP has since evolved and is a feature of Multimedia Messaging Service, but there is now a new generation of competing mobile Web browsers, including Opera Mobile and the iPhone’s Safari browser.
5: ColdFusion
ColdFusion users rave that this Web programming language is easy to use and quick to jump into, but as many other independent software tools have experienced, it’s hard to compete with products backed by expensive marketing campaigns from Microsoft and others. The language was originally released in 1995 by Allaire, which was acquired by Macromedia (which itself was purchased by Adobe). Today, it is superseded by Microsoft .NET, Java, PHP, and the language of the moment: open source Ruby on Rails. A quick search of the Indeed.com job aggregator site returned 11,045 jobs seeking PHP skills, compared to 2,027 CF jobs. Even Ruby on Rails, which is a much newer technology - and which received a major boost when Apple packaged it with OS X v10.5 in 2007 — returned 1,550 jobs openings on Indeed.com.
6: RAD/extreme programming
Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the rapid application development and extreme programming development philosophies resulted in quicker and more flexible programming that embraced the ever-changing needs of customers during the development process. In XP, developers adapted to changing requirements at any point during the project life rather than attempting to define all requirements at the beginning. In RAD, developers embraced interactive use of structured techniques and prototyping to define users’ requirements. The result was accelerated software development. Although the skills were consistently the highest paying in Foote Partners survey since 1999, they began to lose ground in 2003 due to the proliferation of offshore outsourcing of applications development.
7: Siebel
Siebel is one skill that makes a recurring appearance in the Foote Partners’ list of skills that have lost their luster. Siebel was synonymous with customer relationship management in the late 90s and early 2000s, and the company dominated the market with a 45% share in 2002. Founded by Thomas Siebel, a former Oracle executive with no love lost for his past employer, Siebel competed aggressively with Oracle until 2006 when it was ultimately acquired by the database giant. Siebel’s complex and expensive CRM software required experts to install and manage. That model lost out to the new breed of software-as-a-service (SaaS) packages from companies such as Salesforce.com, which deliver comparable software over the Web. According to the ITJobsWatch.com, Siebel experts command an average salary of GBP52,684 ($78,564), but that’s a slide from GBP55,122 a year ago. Siebel is ranked 319 in the job research site’s list of jobs in demand, compared to 310 in 2008.
8: SNA
The introduction of IP and other Internet networking technologies into enterprises in the 1990s signaled the demise of IBM’s proprietary Systems Network Architecture. According to Wikipedia, the protocol is still used extensively in banks and other financial transaction networks and so SNA skills continue to appear in job ads. But permanent positions seeking SNA skills are few and far between. ITJobsWatch.com noted that there were three opening for permanent jobs between February and April, compared to 43 during the same period last year. Meanwhile, companies such as HP offer consultants with experience in SNA and other legacy skills, such as OpenVMS and Tru64 UNIX for short-term assignments.
9: HTML
We’re not suggesting the Internet is dead, but with the proliferation of easy-to-use WYSIWYG HTML editors enabling non-techies to set up blogs and Web pages, Web site development is no longer a black art. Sure, there’s still a need for professional Web developers, but a good grasp of HTML isn’t the only skill required of a Web developer. Professional developers often have expertise in Java, AJAX, C++, and .NET, among other programming languages. HTML as a skill lost more than 40% of its value between 2001 and 2003, according to Foote Partners.
10: COBOL
Is it dead or alive? This 40-year-old programming language often appears in lists of dying IT skills. But it also appears in as many articles about organizations with legacy applications written in COBOL that are having a hard time finding workers with COBOL skills. IBM cites statistics that 70% of the world’s business data is still being processed by COBOL applications. But how many of these applications will remain in COBOL for the long term? Even IBM is pushing its customers to “build bridges” and use service-oriented architecture to “transform legacy applications and make them part of a fast and flexible IT architecture.”
Friday, June 26, 2009
Design enterprise applications with the EJB 3.0 Java Persistence API
Design enterprise applications with the EJB 3.0 Java Persistence API
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ejb3jpa.html
Here is a live example: (based on ibatis) http://www.jwebhosting.net/servlets/jpetstore5/index.html
Here is a Petstore 2.0 on google app engine: http://jazzmaster-examples.appspot.com/petstore/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ejb3jpa.html
Here is a live example: (based on ibatis) http://www.jwebhosting.net/servlets/jpetstore5/index.html
Here is a Petstore 2.0 on google app engine: http://jazzmaster-examples.appspot.com/petstore/
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Comparing JSF, Spring MVC, Stripes, Struts 2, Tapestry and Wicket
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Android sucks
It seems that android (even the 1.5) version doesn't support WPA-enterprise (nor WPA2-enterprise).
or.. at least the UI.
(see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1386)
But good news - since this is based on Linux, and linux supports WPA-enterprise, an enterprising (sic.) student at Purdue, Fan Zhang, has built an android app to edit the wifi supplicant code in the linux kernel to allow you to edit the supplicant configuration file!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3765595
You can download the app from the Android Marketplace, or from here:
or.. at least the UI.
(see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1386)
But good news - since this is based on Linux, and linux supports WPA-enterprise, an enterprising (sic.) student at Purdue, Fan Zhang, has built an android app to edit the wifi supplicant code in the linux kernel to allow you to edit the supplicant configuration file!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3765595
You can download the app from the Android Marketplace, or from here:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/%7Ezhang42/wifiHelper.apk
The source is here: wifihelper - Google Code
Monday, June 15, 2009
How-To: Use iPhone as USB Mass Storage & File Viewer - MacTalk Forums
How-To: Use iPhone as USB Mass Storage & File Viewer - MacTalk Forums
Actually you only need to load the Discover app on the iphone.
It then runs as a web server at http://x.x.x.x:8888 so you point your pc browser at this address then upload.
The app is supported by adware. Quite annoying. But heck it is free.
The fileview is excellent. Supports pdf and xls/doc files (readonly)
Friday, June 05, 2009
Running J2ME on Android
Now that I have my new Android Developer Phone 1 (aka, HTC Dream or T-mobile G1), I'm investigating how to develop apps on it
There is a complete new toolkit (Android SDK) and Eclipse Plugin (which includes the emulator). And a tonne of new APIs to learn (growl)
But what about J2ME? It's not natively supported on the Android platform.
Lucky for us, there are 2 "emulators" / Bridges for it.
(1) Assembla J2ME Android Bridge: This is a set of bridging libraries - just port your code to the Android eclipse platform, plug these libraries (which emulate javax.microedition.*) and away you go. Although only tested on 1.0r2 and I just upgraded to Android 1.5.. ggrr
(2) Run an emulator on Android. Not the fastest thing to do. Try http://www.netmite.com/android/ aka the MIDP runner. Hey, this supports the Bluetooth API too!! Great.
(3) My preferred alternative is to use J2ME Polish. This development platform is great - you write to their libraries, and then choose the device to build against. The beauty of this is that you can choose other targets too like Nokia, Blackberry, Android, generic J2ME devices etc. And you use CSS styles to decorate your application. And includes HTML/RSS browser widgets in addition to the usual microedition.lcdui stuff.
Also apparantly it has a Windows Mobile, iphone and Palm target for builds. Assuming you have the relevant toolkits installed of course :-)
Friday, May 29, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Epic user interface fail of Homeric proportions
Nearly pissed myself laughing at this one. So to speak.
peripatetic axiom: Epic uer interface fail of Homeric proportions
peripatetic axiom: Epic uer interface fail of Homeric proportions
Monday, May 18, 2009
The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions
Stevey's Home Page - The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions�
Without further ado, here they are: The Five Essential Questions for the first phone-screen with an SDE candidate:
1) Coding. The candidate has to write some simple code, with correct syntax, in C, C++, or Java.
2) OO design. The candidate has to define basic OO concepts, and come up with classes to model a simple problem.
3) Scripting and regexes. The candidate has to describe how to find the phone numbers in 50,000 HTML pages.
4) Data structures. The candidate has to demonstrate basic knowledge of the most common data structures.
5) Bits and bytes. The candidate has to answer simple questions about bits, bytes, and binary numbers.
The FizzBuzz test & programmers ... or not
Coding Horror: Why Can't Programmers.. Program?
Simple test for programming skills:
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100.
But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz".
For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".
See also:
See also :http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/
All teachers of programming find that their results display a 'double hump'. It is as if there are two populations: those who can, and those who cannot, each with its own independent bell curve. Almost all research into programming teaching and learning have concentrated on teaching: change the language, change the application area, use an IDE and work on motivation. None of it works, and the double hump persists. We have a test which picks out the population that can program, before the course begins. We can pick apart the double hump. You probably don't believe this, but you will after you hear the talk. We don't know exactly how/why it works, but we have some good theories.
So true. I see this in all my programming subjects!!!
Simple test for programming skills:
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100.
But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz".
For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print "FizzBuzz".
See also:
Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats
it seems fundamental skills are not being understood:See also :http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/
All teachers of programming find that their results display a 'double hump'. It is as if there are two populations: those who can, and those who cannot, each with its own independent bell curve. Almost all research into programming teaching and learning have concentrated on teaching: change the language, change the application area, use an IDE and work on motivation. None of it works, and the double hump persists. We have a test which picks out the population that can program, before the course begins. We can pick apart the double hump. You probably don't believe this, but you will after you hear the talk. We don't know exactly how/why it works, but we have some good theories.
So true. I see this in all my programming subjects!!!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Friday, May 08, 2009
So I want to use the JAX-WS RI with JDK 6, so I need the endorsed directory right?
Gerard Davison's Blog: So I want to use the JAX-WS RI with JDK 6, so I need the endorsed directory right?: "javax.xml.ws.spi.Provider.DEFAULT_JAXWSPROVIDER"
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Improve your XSLT coding five ways
Improve your XSLT coding five ways
Top hints are:
Tip 1: Cascading style sheets, tables, and XSLT
Tip 2: HTML entities
[ incidentally, to use non-breaking spaces, use #&160; ]
Tip 3: Multiple input documents
Tip 4: XSLT and client-side JavaScript
Tip 5: Automating style sheet creation
Friday, April 24, 2009
Star Trek XI trailer music
Nice trailer music for the next stat trek movie.
http://www.imeem.com/people/hhz_iA/music/2KihKMOL/two-steps-from-hell-freedom-
fighters/#
http://www.imeem.com/people/hhz_iA/music/2KihKMOL/two-steps-from-hell-freedom-
fighters/#
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Oracle Take a REST on JAX-WS with WebLogic Server 10.3
You can also do a similar trick using metro (which incidentally is what is actually installed on weblogic 10.3 under the covers :-)
Dunno if you can try it via java se6 built in httpserver (endpoint). Might try it out.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
GNS3 - a Cisco network simulator
Woot! A colleague at work suggested the following for practicing your Cisco certifications
Graphical Network Simulator 3
This basically simulates the common hardware used by the following CISCO routers:
Cisco 3600 series (3620, 3640 and 3660), 3700 series (3725, 3745) and 2600 series (2610 to 2650XM, 2691).
The core module is the Dynamips project (http://www.ipflow.utc.fr/index.php/Cisco_7200_Simulator)
Graphical Network Simulator 3
This basically simulates the common hardware used by the following CISCO routers:
Cisco 3600 series (3620, 3640 and 3660), 3700 series (3725, 3745) and 2600 series (2610 to 2650XM, 2691).
The core module is the Dynamips project (http://www.ipflow.utc.fr/index.php/Cisco_7200_Simulator)
XML appliances and SOA
Christian Bernard's research on current XML appliances.
Translated version of http://ws-express.blogspot.com/2008/10/solutions-appliances-xml-et-soa.html
Note this list is a mix of Application and Security vendors:
Current players:
Layer 7
IBM Websphere Datapower (ex-Datapower)
Intel SOA (ex-Sarvega)
Forum Systems
Cisco ACE (ex-Reactivity)
Cisco AON
Vordel
Cast Iron
F5 BIG-IP
Radware
Dajeil
Xtradyne
Acatel-Lucent Omniaccess
Meddius
Stampede
Strangeloop
Sonoa
Solace
Safenet
Azul
Bee ware
Original list:
Translated version of http://ws-express.blogspot.com/2008/10/solutions-appliances-xml-et-soa.html
Note this list is a mix of Application and Security vendors:
Current players:
Layer 7
IBM Websphere Datapower (ex-Datapower)
Intel SOA (ex-Sarvega)
Forum Systems
Cisco ACE (ex-Reactivity)
Cisco AON
Vordel
Cast Iron
F5 BIG-IP
Radware
Dajeil
Xtradyne
Acatel-Lucent Omniaccess
Meddius
Stampede
Strangeloop
Sonoa
Solace
Safenet
Azul
Bee ware
Original list:
- Layer 7 SecureSpan XML Accelerator (1U virtual appliance) ;
- Layer 7 SecureSpan XML Data Screen (1U virtual appliance) ;
- Layer 7 SecureSpan XML Firewall & VPN (1U virtual appliance) ;
- Layer 7 SecureSpan XML N&working Gateway (1U virtual appliance) ;
- Layer 7 SecureSpan Mainframe SOA Gateway (1U virtual appliance) ;
- IBM WebSphere DataPower XML Accelerator XA35 (ex-DataPower - 1U) ;
- IBM WebSphere DataPower XML Security Gateway XS40 (ex-DataPower - 1U) ;
- IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 (ex-DataPower - 1U) ;
- Intel SOA Expressway (ex-Sarvega - software appliance) ;
- Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare (ex-Sarvega - software appliance) ;
- Forum Systems Sentry SOA Gateway (1U software appliance) ;
- Forum Systems Secure Token Service Gateway (1U software appliance) ;
- Cisco ACE XML Gateway (ex-Reactivity - 1U) ;
- Cisco ACE Web Application Firewall (ex-Reactivity) ;
- Cisco AON 8340 Series Application-Oriented N&working (3U) ;
- Cisco ADE 1010 Series + AON Healthcare Services Extension HIPAA/ePrescription 1.0 (1U) ;
- Cisco ADE 2142 Series + AON Healthcare Services Extension HIPAA/ePrescription 1.0 (1U) ;
- Vordel XML Gateway (1U, 2U software appliance) ;
- Vordel XML Firewall (1U, 2U software appliance) ;
- Cast Iron Systems iA2000 (1U) & Salesforce, RightNow, N&Suite, SAP, ... ;
- Cast Iron Systems iA2500 (1U) & Salesforce, RightNow, N&Suite, SAP, ... ;
- Cast Iron Systems iA4000 (1U) & Salesforce, RightNow, N&Suite, SAP, ... ;
- Cast Iron Systems iA4000HA (1U * 2) & Salesforce, RightNow, N&Suite, SAP, ... ;
- F5 N&works BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (1U, 2U lame) ;
- Radware AppXcel (1U 3U) ;
- Radware AppXML (3U) ;
- Dajeil N&worked Accelerator (1U) ;
- Dajeil XML & Web Services Processing (1U) ;
- Dajeil DH15K Web Services / XML Processing Module (PCI) ;
- Dajeil DH150Ke XML Acceleration Card (PCI Express) ;
- Xtradyne Web Services Domain Bndary Controller (software appliance) ;
- Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway (2U) ;
- Meddius Integration Rter (1U) ;
- Stampede Web 2.0 Performance Series (1U) ;
- Strangeloop WS1000 Web Services Accelerator (1U) ;
- Strangeloop AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance (1U) ;
- Sonoa ServiceN& (1U virtual appliance) ;
- Solace 3230 & 3260 Content Rters (2U & 4U + sizes) ;
- SafeN& Luna XML (1U) ;
- Azul Vega 3 7300 & 3300 Series (5U & 14U) ;
- Bee Ware i-Sentry (1U & 2U) ;
- Bee Ware v-Sentry (1U & 2U).
Dawn of the App Aware Network
Part of my research is looking at moving apps from the core of the network to the edge (or network aware devices).
Web services (and XML-RPC and REST) and Enterprise Service Bus fit this model quite nicely.
XML accelerator Devices such as Cisco AON or Cisco ACE (ex-Reactivity) or IBM Datapower can be used to replace the Web services routing function required by modern distributed applications into the network.
The implication?
This changes the model of application development from a software-architecture centric viewpoint into a services oriented architecture.
And the commoditisation of this will drive costs down for enterprises and will harm revenue for middleware vendors.
The edge is here.
Why not go a step further? How about pushing application processing to the edge of the network?
In my Faculty [Engineering and IT]/School of Computing and Communications, we are developing Mobile Health applications using 'motes' - tiny devices running a pico-net (and a mutant version of Java)
Web services (and XML-RPC and REST) and Enterprise Service Bus fit this model quite nicely.
XML accelerator Devices such as Cisco AON or Cisco ACE (ex-Reactivity) or IBM Datapower can be used to replace the Web services routing function required by modern distributed applications into the network.
The implication?
This changes the model of application development from a software-architecture centric viewpoint into a services oriented architecture.
And the commoditisation of this will drive costs down for enterprises and will harm revenue for middleware vendors.
The edge is here.
Why not go a step further? How about pushing application processing to the edge of the network?
In my Faculty [Engineering and IT]/School of Computing and Communications, we are developing Mobile Health applications using 'motes' - tiny devices running a pico-net (and a mutant version of Java)
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Testing post by windows live writer
this is a test of windows live writer.
I used to use w.bloggar, but it now fails on blogger.
Ditto with Post2Blog
The issue with free code is that is rarely is updated when the underlying API’s change.
Curse you blogger!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Don’t Invent XML Languages
Don’t Invent XML Languages
Tim Bray in 06 suggested that you shouldn't reinvent any XMl language, unless you can prove it doesn't fit the "BIG 5":
The Big Five
Suppose you’ve got an application where a markup language would be handy, and you’re wisely resisting the temptation to build your own. What are you going to do, then? ¶
The smartest thing to do would be to find a way to use one of the perfectly good markup languages that have been designed and debugged and have validators and authoring software and parsers and generators and all that other good stuff. Here’s a radical idea: don’t even think of making your own language until you’re sure that you can’t do the job using one of the Big Five: XHTML, DocBook, ODF, UBL, and Atom.
XHTML + Microformats:
If you’re delivering information to humans over the Web, even if you don’t think of it as “Web Pages”, it’s almost certainly insane not to use XHTML. Yes, XHTML is semantically weak and doesn’t really grok hierarchy and has a bunch of other problems. That’s OK, because it has a general-purpose class attribute and ignores markup it doesn’t know about and you can bastardize it eight ways from center without anything breaking. The Kool Kids call this “Microformats” and in fact I accidentally invented one on ongoing last November; look at that template and its class attributes. ¶
And of course, if you use XHTML you can feed it to the browsers that are already there on a few hundred million desktops and humans can read it, and if they want to know how to do what it’s doing, they can “View Source”—these are powerful arguments.
DocBook
Suppose you’re building something that needs to go bigger and deeper and richer than XHTML is comfy with, and you want to repurpose it for print and electronic and voice, and you need chapters and sections and appendices and bibliographies and footnotes and so on. DocBook is what you need. It’s got everything you could possibly begin to imagine already built-in, and there are lots of good tools out there to do useful things with it. ¶
ODF
Suppose you’re working with material that’s going to have a lot of workflow around it, and be complex, visually if not structurally, and maybe some day will be printed out and have signatures at the bottom. ODF is what you want. Not the most Web-oriented approach, but on the other hand the authoring tools are more human-friendly than anything else on this list. ¶
UBL
If you’re working with invoices and purchase orders and that kind of stuff (and who isn’t?), do not even think of inventing anything. A whole bunch of smart people have put hundreds of person-years into pulling together the basics, and they did a good job, and it’s ready to go today. Look no further. ¶
Atom
Suppose you think of your data as a list of, well, anything: stock prices or workflow steps or cake ingredients or sports statistics. Atom might be for you. Suppose the things in the list ought to have human-readable labels and have to carry a timestamp and might be re-aggregated into other lists. Atom is almost certainly what you need. And for a data format that didn’t exist a year ago, there’s a whole great big butt-load of software that understands it. ¶
Tim Bray in 06 suggested that you shouldn't reinvent any XMl language, unless you can prove it doesn't fit the "BIG 5":
The Big Five
Suppose you’ve got an application where a markup language would be handy, and you’re wisely resisting the temptation to build your own. What are you going to do, then? ¶
The smartest thing to do would be to find a way to use one of the perfectly good markup languages that have been designed and debugged and have validators and authoring software and parsers and generators and all that other good stuff. Here’s a radical idea: don’t even think of making your own language until you’re sure that you can’t do the job using one of the Big Five: XHTML, DocBook, ODF, UBL, and Atom.
XHTML + Microformats:
If you’re delivering information to humans over the Web, even if you don’t think of it as “Web Pages”, it’s almost certainly insane not to use XHTML. Yes, XHTML is semantically weak and doesn’t really grok hierarchy and has a bunch of other problems. That’s OK, because it has a general-purpose class attribute and ignores markup it doesn’t know about and you can bastardize it eight ways from center without anything breaking. The Kool Kids call this “Microformats” and in fact I accidentally invented one on ongoing last November; look at that template and its class attributes. ¶
And of course, if you use XHTML you can feed it to the browsers that are already there on a few hundred million desktops and humans can read it, and if they want to know how to do what it’s doing, they can “View Source”—these are powerful arguments.
DocBook
Suppose you’re building something that needs to go bigger and deeper and richer than XHTML is comfy with, and you want to repurpose it for print and electronic and voice, and you need chapters and sections and appendices and bibliographies and footnotes and so on. DocBook is what you need. It’s got everything you could possibly begin to imagine already built-in, and there are lots of good tools out there to do useful things with it. ¶
ODF
Suppose you’re working with material that’s going to have a lot of workflow around it, and be complex, visually if not structurally, and maybe some day will be printed out and have signatures at the bottom. ODF is what you want. Not the most Web-oriented approach, but on the other hand the authoring tools are more human-friendly than anything else on this list. ¶
UBL
If you’re working with invoices and purchase orders and that kind of stuff (and who isn’t?), do not even think of inventing anything. A whole bunch of smart people have put hundreds of person-years into pulling together the basics, and they did a good job, and it’s ready to go today. Look no further. ¶
Atom
Suppose you think of your data as a list of, well, anything: stock prices or workflow steps or cake ingredients or sports statistics. Atom might be for you. Suppose the things in the list ought to have human-readable labels and have to carry a timestamp and might be re-aggregated into other lists. Atom is almost certainly what you need. And for a data format that didn’t exist a year ago, there’s a whole great big butt-load of software that understands it. ¶
Friday, April 10, 2009
More ESB comparisons
More ESB comparisons
See also: Manning: Good book: Open-Source ESBs in Action (Chapter1)
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_business_integration_software
Aqualogic vs Mule vs Servicemix vs Websphere: http://eugeneciurana.com/musings/ESB-comparison.pdf
or http://www.networkcomputing.com/article/printFullArticle.jhtml?articleID=181501276
& finally the above references scorecard:
See also: Manning: Good book: Open-Source ESBs in Action (Chapter1)
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_business_integration_software
Aqualogic vs Mule vs Servicemix vs Websphere: http://eugeneciurana.com/musings/ESB-comparison.pdf
or http://www.networkcomputing.com/article/printFullArticle.jhtml?articleID=181501276
& finally the above references scorecard:
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
weirdness with java 6 JAX-WS
strange error occuring with Jax-ws on Java JDK 1.6.0_06 or lower. after building the stubs with wsimport and writing a trivial client, you get javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: unexpected XML reader state. expected: END_ELEMENT but found: START_ELEMENT when running against a document/literal web service However, upon upgrading to JDK 1.6.0_07 (or higher) it now works? seems there was a bugfix in 07 update
Tomcat security
One painful thing I'm learning is the restrictions tomcat has when running under the -security option.Basically many things (eg: jaxb, jax-ws, axis) can't run.
Locating the appropriate permissions is pretty daunting.Now lhttp://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/01/03/discovering-java-security-requirements.html has a tool calledProfilingSecurityManager (which is just a custom SecurityManager class) which displays the permissions required(basically start catalina with -Djava.security.manager=secmgr.ProfingSecurityManager)You then use a perl script
Another reference is http://www.petrovic.org/blog/2006/05/07/tomcat-security-option-and-catalinapolicy-file
Basically export CATALINA_OPTS=-Djava.security.debug=access,failurethen run catalina.sh run -security
Look in catalina.out for denied.Then seek for "domain that failed ProtectionDomain" for the codebase or domain.
http://www.jchains.org/ also allows you to do the same for standard java execution.
Locating the appropriate permissions is pretty daunting.Now lhttp://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/01/03/discovering-java-security-requirements.html has a tool calledProfilingSecurityManager (which is just a custom SecurityManager class) which displays the permissions required(basically start catalina with -Djava.security.manager=secmgr.ProfingSecurityManager)You then use a perl script
Another reference is http://www.petrovic.org/blog/2006/05/07/tomcat-security-option-and-catalinapolicy-file
Basically export CATALINA_OPTS=-Djava.security.debug=access,failurethen run catalina.sh run -security
Look in catalina.out for denied.Then seek for "domain that failed ProtectionDomain" for the codebase or domain.
http://www.jchains.org/ also allows you to do the same for standard java execution.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Java Logging API and How To Use It
Java Logging API and How To Use It
On tomcat 5.5 we have the JULI library which replaces the standard java logger.
So to get per-context logging, put
logging.properties into WEB-INF/classes with the following contents:
On tomcat 5.5 we have the JULI library which replaces the standard java logger.
So to get per-context logging, put
logging.properties into WEB-INF/classes with the following contents:
handlers = org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
############################################################
# Handler specific properties.
# Describes specific configuration info for Handlers.
############################################################
org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE
org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/logs
org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = myapp-prefix.
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = FINE
java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
ps: here are the standard set of JULI properties:
- org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory
- org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix
- org.apache.juli.FileHandler.suffix
- org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level
- org.apache.juli.FileHandler.filter
- org.apache.juli.FileHandler.formatter
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Disabling Certificate Validation in an HTTPS Connection (Java Developers Almanac Example)
Whilst suffering extreme pain due to self-signed certificates (hint: UTS IT ?) here is a nify trick to roll your own non certificate checking class:
Disabling Certificate Validation in an HTTPS Connection (Java Developers Almanac Example E502)
e502. Disabling Certificate Validation in an HTTPS Connection
By default, accessing an HTTPS URL using the URL class results in an exception if the server's certificate chain cannot be validated has not previously been installed in the truststore. If you want to disable the validation of certificates for testing purposes, you need to override the default trust manager with one that trusts all certificates.
exception if the server's certificate chain cannot be validated has not previously been installed in the truststore. If you want to disable the validation of certificates for testing purposes, you need to override the default trust manager with one that trusts all certificates.
Client:
Disabling Certificate Validation in an HTTPS Connection (Java Developers Almanac Example E502)
e502. Disabling Certificate Validation in an HTTPS Connection
By default, accessing an HTTPS URL using the URL class results in an exception if the server's certificate chain cannot be validated has not previously been installed in the truststore. If you want to disable the validation of certificates for testing purposes, you need to override the default trust manager with one that trusts all certificates.
exception if the server's certificate chain cannot be validated has not previously been installed in the truststore. If you want to disable the validation of certificates for testing purposes, you need to override the default trust manager with one that trusts all certificates.
// Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[]{
new X509TrustManager() {
public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
public void checkClientTrusted(
java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
}
public void checkServerTrusted(
java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
}
}
};
// Install the all-trusting trust manager
try {
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
} catch (Exception e) {
}
Client:
// Now you can access an https URL without having the certificate in the truststore
try {
URL url = new URL("https://hostname/index.html");
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
}
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Google street view hits cairns!
I couldn't believe this - Google street view covers a huge chunk of oz!
And here is the old Cairns house: <http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=16+ward+st+mooroobool&sll=-16.933004,145.728707&sspn=0.024592,0.038967&ie=UTF8&ll=-16.933989,145.743728&spn=0.005542,0.019484&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=-16.93399,145.74373&panoid=5E_F8Yl08u2hRIHT1aW_tw&cbp=11,48.12376890949633,,0,4.008810572687228>
And here is the old Cairns house: <http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=16+ward+st+mooroobool&sll=-16.933004,145.728707&sspn=0.024592,0.038967&ie=UTF8&ll=-16.933989,145.743728&spn=0.005542,0.019484&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=-16.93399,145.74373&panoid=5E_F8Yl08u2hRIHT1aW_tw&cbp=11,48.12376890949633,,0,4.008810572687228>
Friday, March 20, 2009
Critical Steps to Secure Tomcat on Windows NT/2K/XP
Critical Steps to Secure Tomcat on Windows NT/2K/XP
wow, running tomcat can really cause security holes.
fancy
wow, running tomcat can really cause security holes.
fancy
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
rt.exec("c:\\SomeDirectory\\SomeUnsafeProgram.exe")
running under the system context (As Administrator!!) of windows.
boo yaa!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
this is a blog post using w.bloggar http://wbloggar.com/download.php
A quick way of entering blog entries.
chris
A quick way of entering blog entries.
chris
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
converting unix date to excel date
been bugged by this for while - on unix the date timestamp is number of seconds since 1/1/1970
On excel, it's 1/1/1900
So to convert the unix timestamp to microsoft excel, use the formula:
=timestamp/86400 + "1/1/1970"
(where 86400 = 24 * 60* 60 ie: # seconds in a day).
Oh you might also want to add/subtract an offset for the timezone (depending on the timezone settings of your unix box). eg: for +10 GMT (sydney, melbourne, canberra) add 10/24 ie: 0.416667
ps: make the cell format Date or Time or Custom format.
Personally I prefer ddd dd/mm/yyyy HH:mm:ss (ie: Tue 03/03/1999 23:59:43)
On excel, it's 1/1/1900
So to convert the unix timestamp to microsoft excel, use the formula:
=timestamp/86400 + "1/1/1970"
(where 86400 = 24 * 60* 60 ie: # seconds in a day).
Oh you might also want to add/subtract an offset for the timezone (depending on the timezone settings of your unix box). eg: for +10 GMT (sydney, melbourne, canberra) add 10/24 ie: 0.416667
ps: make the cell format Date or Time or Custom format.
Personally I prefer ddd dd/mm/yyyy HH:mm:ss (ie: Tue 03/03/1999 23:59:43)
Sunday, March 15, 2009
2008 SOA magazine readers choice
I'm personally a bit dubious about the readers choice result from SOA magazine ( http://soa.sys-con.com ) since it gives very high rankings to IBM websphere software.
Some make sense and some don't.
Best App server:
Best Integration Server
Best Opensource SOA
Best Portal
Best Security
Best SOA platform
Best SOA Testing tool
Best SOA Tool
It's a bit weird to mix development tools (#3 RSA & #4 Rational Team) with servers (#1, #2). Maybe that's why IBM got pushed down, staff got confused..
Best SOA training site
Best SOA Book
Best SOA or XML Site:
Yeah they are ok. What about non-vendor stuff.
Con-clusion:
sys-con SOAWorld magazine tries to be a vendor neutral but they need some mechanism to do a real unbiased report. Maybe if Gartner or any of the reputable firms would run the survey I would be less skeptical.
Some make sense and some don't.
Best App server:
- IBM websphere (yeah, huge number of commercial, plus ambigous since this includes WASCE and probably Apache Geronimo)
- Glassfish (big push from SUN)
- Weblogic (ol' favorite, but Oracle owns this now and god knows how they market it)
- WSO2 (** weird?? Where did this come from? Maybe manipulation?)
- JBoss (huh, would have thought this near #2 or #4)
- NetBeans (assuming 6.1, which is excellent)
- Rational Application Developer (eclipse)
- Oracle JDeveloper (not eclipse)
Best Integration Server
- Websphere Integration Developer
- Fiorano ESB
- Java CAPS (glassfish++)
Best Opensource SOA
- WASCE (does this include Apache Geronimo??)
- Sun openESB
- SoapUI
Best Portal
- IBM Websphere Portal
- Sun Portal
- Weblogic Portal 10.2
Best Security
- IBM Datapower XML security gateway XS40
- Sun access manager/open SSO
- oracle web services management
- Metro
Best SOA platform
- IBM Websphere
- Fiorano SOA
- Sun Java CAPS
Best SOA Testing tool
- Rational Tester for SOA
- SoapUI
Best SOA Tool
- Fiorano ESB
- Sun Java CAPS
- Rational Software Architect
- Rational Team concert
It's a bit weird to mix development tools (#3 RSA & #4 Rational Team) with servers (#1, #2). Maybe that's why IBM got pushed down, staff got confused..
Best SOA training site
- IBM SOA Sandbox
- SOA Training Curriculum (MomentumSI)
Best SOA Book
- IBM"The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0"
- Amberpoint et al An Implementorï¾’s Guide to SOA ï¾– Getting it Right
- IONA Understanding SOA with Web Services
Best SOA or XML Site:
Yeah they are ok. What about non-vendor stuff.
Con-clusion:
sys-con SOAWorld magazine tries to be a vendor neutral but they need some mechanism to do a real unbiased report. Maybe if Gartner or any of the reputable firms would run the survey I would be less skeptical.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Do's and don'ts with babies :: Hilarious pics
Do's and don'ts with babies :: Hilarious pics
Made me cry with laughter. Though I didn't see what's wrong with the last 2 ones..
Made me cry with laughter. Though I didn't see what's wrong with the last 2 ones..
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Dustin's Software Development Cogitations and Speculations: Standardization: The Dangerous Relationship for Open Source
An interesting post about how standardisation can destroy open source software
eg: xdoclet eg: log4j
Dustin's Software Development Cogitations and Speculations: Standardization: The Dangerous Relationship for Open Source
The main factor of course with open source is the commitment of the developers, supporters, vendors and community of users. Like every fad, they can come and go really quickly....
FUD rulez!
eg: xdoclet eg: log4j
Dustin's Software Development Cogitations and Speculations: Standardization: The Dangerous Relationship for Open Source
The main factor of course with open source is the commitment of the developers, supporters, vendors and community of users. Like every fad, they can come and go really quickly....
FUD rulez!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Aarne-Thompson classification system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Good grief. As kids we used to joke about how movies all seemed to follow basic plotlines.
So star wars was standard plot 5 & 17 with subplots 3 with twist 8.
Well... at the turn of last century, Aarne & Thompson developed the Aarne-Thompson classification system for classifying folktales!!
Good grief I say!
After all, the classic stories about clever foxes is "The Clever Fox (Other Animal) 1–69"
or how about Realistic Tales (Novelle) : "The Man Marries the Princess 850–869"
omg. Now for a phD for my classification system for movies and tv plots. .
mmm
nice.
So star wars was standard plot 5 & 17 with subplots 3 with twist 8.
Well... at the turn of last century, Aarne & Thompson developed the Aarne-Thompson classification system for classifying folktales!!
Good grief I say!
After all, the classic stories about clever foxes is "The Clever Fox (Other Animal) 1–69"
or how about Realistic Tales (Novelle) : "The Man Marries the Princess 850–869"
omg. Now for a phD for my classification system for movies and tv plots. .
mmm
nice.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
most popular programming language
Well it seems Java is still #1 for programming languages according to the TIOBE Software: Tiobe Index October 08 edition
The rest are:
What's happened to ABAP (SAP)??
The rest are:
Oct 2008 | Position Oct 2007 | Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Oct 2008 | Delta Oct 2007 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  | Java | 20.949% | -0.67% | A |
| 2 | 2 | | C | 15.565% | +0.97% | A |
| 3 | 4 |  | C++ | 10.954% | +1.37% | A |
| 4 | 3 |  | (Visual) Basic | 9.811% | -1.35% | A |
| 5 | 5 | | PHP | 8.612% | -0.89% | A |
| 6 | 8 | | Python | 4.565% | +1.13% | A |
| 7 | 6 | | Perl | 4.419% | -0.93% | A |
| 8 | 7 | | C# | 3.767% | +0.03% | A |
| 9 | 13 | | Delphi | 3.288% | +1.75% | A |
| 10 | 10 | | Ruby | 2.860% | +0.47% | A |
| 11 | 9 | | JavaScript | 2.670% | -0.01% | A |
| 12 | 12 | | D | 1.333% | -0.26% | A |
| 13 | 11 | | PL/SQL | 1.024% | -0.94% | A- |
| 14 | 14 | | SAS | 0.600% | -0.78% | B |
| 15 | 17 | | Lua | 0.551% | -0.04% | B |
| 16 | 21 | | Pascal | 0.520% | +0.10% | B |
| 17 | 22 | | ActionScript | 0.506% | +0.14% | B |
| 18 | 16 | | COBOL | 0.491% | -0.19% | B |
| 19 | 18 | | Lisp/Scheme | 0.485% | -0.09% | B |
| 20 | 15 | | ABAP | 0.445% | -0.40% | B |
Remember Smalltalk?
I was an IBM support specialist for VisualAge for Smalltalk in the 90's. Seeing these blogs brought tears of bitter memories to me since I'm now a Java head .... To quote: http://blogs.gartner.com/mark_driver/2008/10/09/remember-smalltalk/
Here a simply equation. In terms of mental fortitude…
1 Smalltalk developer = 2.5 C++ developers
1 C++ Developer = 1.5 Java developers
in other words…
Smalltalk is a meal with a fine Bordeaux and a petite filet mignon
Java is a meal with a cold beer and t-bone
So Yeah.. I said it.
Smalltalk is making a comeback. (pausing to wait for reader to regain consciousness)
...
Its somewhat funny to consider that a new generation of developers (post C++) consider the features in Ruby to be bleeding edge when in fact they are mostly retro features of things that Smalltalk has done for decades. The challenge of course is that languages like Python and Ruby have the heat needed to create a strong momentum. Smalltalk enjoys the benefit of association but not enough to transfer that heat in large volume — at least not yet.
Dave Thomas (OTI head) wrote a oldish article in Celebrating 25 Years of Smalltalk about the impact of Smalltalk (don't I remember Footprint and ENVYand the horrors of Visual Banker!)
or an alternative view: What would you miss if you had to stop using ruby and go back to smalltalk?. Yeah I remember that hassle with Operator precedence and the pain it caused.
Finally, a web framework for smalltalk!! http://www.seaside.st/ or Aida http://ww.aidaweb.si/
so... what about Scala? (wikipedia entry)
Here a simply equation. In terms of mental fortitude…
1 Smalltalk developer = 2.5 C++ developers
1 C++ Developer = 1.5 Java developers
in other words…
Smalltalk is a meal with a fine Bordeaux and a petite filet mignon
Java is a meal with a cold beer and t-bone
So Yeah.. I said it.
Smalltalk is making a comeback. (pausing to wait for reader to regain consciousness)
...
Its somewhat funny to consider that a new generation of developers (post C++) consider the features in Ruby to be bleeding edge when in fact they are mostly retro features of things that Smalltalk has done for decades. The challenge of course is that languages like Python and Ruby have the heat needed to create a strong momentum. Smalltalk enjoys the benefit of association but not enough to transfer that heat in large volume — at least not yet.
Dave Thomas (OTI head) wrote a oldish article in Celebrating 25 Years of Smalltalk about the impact of Smalltalk (don't I remember Footprint and ENVYand the horrors of Visual Banker!)
or an alternative view: What would you miss if you had to stop using ruby and go back to smalltalk?. Yeah I remember that hassle with Operator precedence and the pain it caused.
Finally, a web framework for smalltalk!! http://www.seaside.st/ or Aida http://ww.aidaweb.si/
so... what about Scala? (wikipedia entry)
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
weblogic workshop 10 and EJB 3.0
Maxence Button's blog on WebLogic & Java EE: August 2008
in particular, using workshop 10 for EJB 3.0 development
in particular, using workshop 10 for EJB 3.0 development
Monday, October 06, 2008
InfoQ: How to GET a Cup of Coffee
InfoQ: How to GET a Cup of Coffee
Interesting article on REST using starbucks as an analogy. Might ask Jim Webber if I can use this for my REST lecture in 31284 web services developer / 32525 Web services technologies
Interesting article on REST using starbucks as an analogy. Might ask Jim Webber if I can use this for my REST lecture in 31284 web services developer / 32525 Web services technologies
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Embedded Jetty
I wanted to use Jetty in embedded mode to run a simple AXIS server (for web services support for students).
Since the students have a limited amount of space, having a <5Mb web application service sounds nice.
(I set up Tomcat, and reduced it to 4.6Mb by having lots of symlinks to /usr/share/java which we happened to have a lot of the common libraries installed)
Using symlinks (again) I should be able to reduce this to < 2Mb.
Anyway, found out how to embed Jetty ... might make my own axis "simpleJettyServer" based on the following. ps: I wonder how you map using this?
So Long WTP, Embedded Jetty for Me - Code Commit: "
Since the students have a limited amount of space, having a <5Mb web application service sounds nice.
(I set up Tomcat, and reduced it to 4.6Mb by having lots of symlinks to /usr/share/java which we happened to have a lot of the common libraries installed)
Using symlinks (again) I should be able to reduce this to < 2Mb.
Anyway, found out how to embed Jetty ... might make my own axis "simpleJettyServer" based on the following. ps: I wonder how you map using this?
So Long WTP, Embedded Jetty for Me - Code Commit: "
public class StartApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Server server = new Server(8080);
Context context = new Context(server, "/", Context.SESSIONS);
ServletHolder servletHolder = new ServletHolder(new WicketServlet());
servletHolder.setInitParameter("applicationClassName",
"com.myapp.wicket.Application");
servletHolder.setInitOrder(1);
context.addServlet(servletHolder, "/*");
server.start();
server.join();
}
}
Thursday, October 02, 2008
BEA Workshop - with Ajax
We recently installed Aptana studio (community edition) 3.2 on our lab workstations.
Unfortunately, when installed over Eclipse Europa JST All In One it causes the occasional crash.
here's an alternative - install it as an eclipse extension (so we can disable the install if necessary).
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/dev2arch/2008/03/ajax-with-bea-workshop.html
ps: you can also use the eclipse link function eg /opt/eclipse/links/plugin.link where the .link file contains path=/path-to-plugin/
Unfortunately, when installed over Eclipse Europa JST All In One it causes the occasional crash.
here's an alternative - install it as an eclipse extension (so we can disable the install if necessary).
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/dev2arch/2008/03/ajax-with-bea-workshop.html
ps: you can also use the eclipse link function eg /opt/eclipse/links/plugin.link where the .link file contains path=/path-to-plugin/
Workshop for WebLogic 10.3 JEE 5 Trial and Error
Want to use EJB 3 in Oracle workshop 10.3?
Workshop for WebLogic 10.3 JEE 5 Trial and Error (James Bayer's Blog)
Workshop for WebLogic 10.3 JEE 5 Trial and Error (James Bayer's Blog)
Installing CVS plugins into Oracle Workshop for Weblogic 10.3
it seems that oracle workshop for weblogic 10.3 is missing CVS.
IDIOTS!!!!
Installing CVS plugins into Oracle Workshop for Weblogic 10.3 (Greg Stachnick's Blog)
Now I'm also using SVN with Oracle Workshop 10.3.
The update site do not work - don't try the subversive plugin from eclipse - this causes a JDT error on Eclipse Europa (Oracle Workshop 10.3 version)
Use http://subclipse.tigris.org/ instead. And don't use the JavaHL driver unless you have the official SVN client from tigris.org
IDIOTS!!!!
Installing CVS plugins into Oracle Workshop for Weblogic 10.3 (Greg Stachnick's Blog)
Now I'm also using SVN with Oracle Workshop 10.3.
The update site do not work - don't try the subversive plugin from eclipse - this causes a JDT error on Eclipse Europa (Oracle Workshop 10.3 version)
Use http://subclipse.tigris.org/ instead. And don't use the JavaHL driver unless you have the official SVN client from tigris.org
Monday, September 29, 2008
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Weblogic Embedded LDAP server
WebLogic Embedded LDAP
Good guide on how to use the embedded Weblogic LDAP server.
To view the current LDAP tree (but not! the myrealm security!!)
Weblogic -> Console -> Domain -> AdminServer -> View JNDI Tree
Other bits:
http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs100/ConsoleHelp/taskhelp/security/ConfigureEmbeddedLDAPServers.html
Essentially you need to also set up a security credential password for weblogic (otherwise weblogic generates a random password)
Domain -> Security > Embedded LDAP
ps: you can also set anonymous bind here too.
Using it: Credentials: cn=Admin & password = credential password you set up earlier
Base Dn: dc=domain_name (ie: your weblogic domain name eg: weblogic)
Heirarchy:
Using an LDAP browser, you get to see the following heirarchy when using Base DN: dc=weblogic
And when you use dc=Config you get
Good guide on how to use the embedded Weblogic LDAP server.
To view the current LDAP tree (but not! the myrealm security!!)
Weblogic -> Console -> Domain -> AdminServer -> View JNDI Tree
Other bits:
http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs100/ConsoleHelp/taskhelp/security/ConfigureEmbeddedLDAPServers.html
Essentially you need to also set up a security credential password for weblogic (otherwise weblogic generates a random password)
Domain -> Security > Embedded LDAP
ps: you can also set anonymous bind here too.
Using it: Credentials: cn=Admin & password = credential password you set up earlier
Base Dn: dc=domain_name (ie: your weblogic domain name eg: weblogic)
Heirarchy:
Users ou=people,ou=myrealm,dc=mydomain
Groups ou=groups,ou=myrealm,dc=mydomain
Security roles ou=ERole,ou=myrealm,dc=mydomain
Security policies ou=EResource,ou=myrealm,dc=mydomain
Using an LDAP browser, you get to see the following heirarchy when using Base DN: dc=weblogic
And when you use dc=Config you get
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