Guice and gin

Easy identity using rest

Very execiting... expecially because they are saying that is okay to be lazy .. :-)

To be lazy we have to Delegate identity service to other (Services) which is nice... :-) seperation of concerns.

This seems to be a very good way of doing authentication and authorization of
flavors of indentity services

They showed a demo where the where putting some plugin connectors (filters) to standard containers (GlassFish)

This work like a charm and was a very easy way of adding authorization and authentication to REST based web services.
Combined with the new REST jsr (i think its JSR301 but dont kill me if im off) this would be an easy way of exposing the services layer in a secure way to the frontend layer.

I also saw Doug Tidwell from IBM, making an excellent presentation where he was able to position REST and WS-* against each other... and to quate him, whether u should use one or the other .. that depends.. :-)

And yes I love the cloud..

Java One 2009

Yesterday was the first day at JavaOne, actually the first day was something called Community one, the weather in San Fransisco was bad (hmm I think it always is !), at the same time the weather in Denmark is excellent ... so this has been a little annoying ;-) but anyway we where (we the group from Denmark) out biking around San Fransisco almost biking 40 km on sunday so my legs was a little tired monday. But back to the important part the sessions on monday.

The general session in monday was a bit boring, maybe it was the focused on Open Solaris, I think i didn't found the reason to shift from my ubuntu to Open Solaris based on this season, not that i am saying that that where there purpose.

During the day I was going to different session, i general i was a little disappointed, they where not deep enough, or maybe it was that they where not precise enough, when that is said i was attending for instance a session about android development which gave some good tips.

Without any comparison the best session, was in my opinion about project darkstar, this area that they are working with is without doubt a growt area, the trend is going towards more and more devices is connected and we are as it was said all gamers.. so off course we need a gaming engine.

At the same time Mobile platform increasing important for gaming also growing, new experience which console and desktop can not bring like new possibilities which only is can be done on the mobile platform.

Very interesting really want to go home a try to make a simple multiplayer came... for instance for my son, which has requested that :-), since he understood that I working on making software for computers.

A disappoint session I was attending, was about how Community participating or die, I had expected that he will tell me how to convince a company why they should use time and energy on open source software, and he was not able to convince me, why!! because i am working in a consultant company, and as i see it, if we in the company begin investing money in a open source project is going to loss our independency because we then actually are developing a product and we will try to convince or customer to use that... at least if we get involved, we are going to change our business model and we should be aware of that.

So community will properly be spare time :-)

Today was the big day. JavaOne started, all the giraffes where there gosling, McNealy and also .. Eliason from Oracle, everybody was happy to hear that Java was save.. Oracle will keep investing and only minor change will happen... most interesting in think was that Open Office is going on the web using JavaFx. JavaFx is actually in my opinion and interesting technology, which i will have to look into when i come back home.

Memo and mindmapping

Reading books brings me into a lot of areas, at the moment my passion lies in the improvement of my abilities to remember and recall information and knowledge. I start by reading a really good and easy to read book which has the title memo, this book is wrote by a Norwegian guy who are able to remember really good by using route plans and visualization in the mind.
I think i need a good bit of training to be able to do this, but i have used it for remembering some list and some really important numbers.
And i think if i had to make a very important speak i would also use this technique to recall and remember the headline, for sure if i went back to school this would be the first book i would reread to improve my study skills.
But now i would like to also be able to refine my way of making notes, i think the combination of the memo and the mindmapping could be an excellent way of storing and remembering complex stuff.

Apache Quartz

It have been a while .. seen my last blog.. but better late than never.

I have the last couble of days been working with Quartz which has all in all been pleasant.
But a few comments.

• unschedule a job will remove it, if u dont remember to set durability on the job when its is created.
• Durable jobs should not been unscheduled use the the unschedule(jobdetail,trigger) method but the unschudule(trigger)

Hope this can helps someone.

WebSphere Portal RAD 7.0

I had today a lot of trouble getting my portlet project deployed into the the WebSphere Portal server.

The server was started the publish progress bar was at 100 %, then the deployment failed "could connect to WebSphere Application Server"

I have try doing a lot of differnent things.. but what that resolved my problem was to create a new workspace..

Hope this help other ..

Eat the frog

I have read some excellent book lately the first one was "eat the frog" .. the books is about been more productive by avoid postpone the "boring" tasks .. I have decided to let some of these advice come into my live..

Another book i'm about to read is the 8'the habit this is a very good book, the goal is to explain how to be a leader in business as well as you personal live. Some of the conclusions/advice in the book is very good but still om think the book maybe has a to wide a scope.