Integrating Tivoli Access Manager with JBoss AS 4.x
Posted by Mark Bakker in the early morning: December 22nd, 2009
Introduction
Currently I am working at a big Enterprise where they use Tivoli Access Manager as authorization and authentication source for a lot of there applications.
This Enterprise is using JBoss as open source application server platform and is using this more and more. When they began using JBoss they got a TAM plug-in for JBoss from IBM. This plug-in did the complete authorization and authentication by implementing JAAS and registering all the used security roles in TAM. This is done during deployment time.
If you have an application with a lot of roles this is very frustrating because it can take a lot of extra time to start up (think of 30 minutes per application) because TAM is synchronizing all the new roles.
Most applications at this customer are using JAAS but do not have special method level authorizations implemented by using TAM. So only the roles are important.
After realizing this I thought is could be a good idea to create a simpler solution for integration TAM and JBoss. For this I wrote some custom code (only 250 lines).
Latching and mocking in concurrent tests
Posted by Iwein Fuld mid-afternoon: November 3rd, 2009
Concurrent testing is hard, but not as hard as you think. If you use the right tricks it can be done. This blog shows you one particular trick that uses a latch and a mock to ensure a test scenario is completed before running the verifications.
While working on Spring Integration in Action, I experimented with a neat solution for concurrent tests. When I showed it to some colleagues I was pleasantly surprised by the reaction that I got. Judge for yourself if it's worth the blog.
The main idea is to use a latch and let your mock count it down. It sounds trivial (and to be honest it is).
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Web performance in seven steps; Step 5: Monitor and diagnose
Posted by Jeroen Borgers late at night: August 31st, 2009
Last time I blogged about the importance of continuous performance testing. When you write and run performance tests continuously, just like unit tests, you get early performance insights in new and changed features of your software. This will minimize surprises and be more productive. Now I’ll blog about monitoring and diagnostics.
When a new version of the software is released into the production environment, the question always is: will it actually perform like we saw in testing and acceptance environments? And we keep our fingers crossed.
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Open Source GIS experiences
Posted by Kris Geusebroek around lunchtime: August 26th, 2009
After being away from the GIS world for a while, I started working on a new project replacing the current used software by an open source alternative. The first small application that needed to be made was for an emergency phone call center to show the position of the caller on a map. After that a few prototypes should prove that it was doable to replace the current software stack by open source alternatives.
In this blog I will describe the tools used, a few of the problems I ran into and of course the solutions to the problems which involve coding and communication 
The tools used where a Java based server called Geoserver and a client side JavaScript library called OpenLayers.
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