The " Heroes of Java " series continues. Interview 17 came a long way from the tropical island of Curaçao. Bauke took the time to answer my questions and I am happy to have him joining the series! Bauke Scholtz is more commonly known under his…
Continue ReadingOne of the most successful posts on this blog is my post about setting up a JDBC Security Realm with form based authentication on GlassFish. Some comments on this post made me realize that there is more to do to actually make this secure as it should be. S…
Continue ReadingFlights are booked and everything else is arranged. I am truly looking forward to the no one Java event in one of my favorite cities in the states. Moving this from a placeholder to the final state took some time this year. The schedule still isn't finish…

Im going to visit Devoxx in Antwerp for the first time ever! This is especially exciting as this is the biggest Java related conference in Europe and I missed it for so long. Schedule is shaping up during the last days and I am proud to contribute to David…
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The Heroes of Java: Werner Keil
After a bit of silence I finally managed to continue my " Heroes of Java " interview series. The 16th edition is about Werner Keil. Werner Keil has worked for more than 20 years as project manager, software architect, analyst and consultant o…
Continue ReadingFor the first time ever I am going to present at this years JavaZone in Oslo, Norway. JavaZone is the biggest meeting place for software developers in Scandinavia, and one of Europe's most important. JavaZone has been described as a high quality, inde…

You might have heard that the latest GlassFish 3.1.2.2 is out. You can download it from both glassfish.org and oracle.com . According to the announcement in the GlassFish forums it covers three bugs which have been categorized by feedback from the communit…
Continue Readingwhat a day. When the typical European is winding down people in the States are starting with coffee. This is why I had a good night sleep over the recent news by Mark Reinhold. In a post titled " Project Jigsaw: Late for the train " he proposes to &…
Continue ReadingThe of the most prominent requirements for application servers derive from the operations space. Taking this into account the next Java EE platform specification will focus entirely on platform as a service (PaaS) and cloud operations. Looking at what we have…

Another O'Reilly book on my review list. This has been sitting there for some time but the blogger review program finally made it happen. This is one of the few books accompanying me since years. I don't know with which one I started but I believe it…
Continue ReadingI was playing around with latest Mojarra and in order not to replace any existing versions at a server module level I tried to package it with my apps. I shouldn't have done that. Here is a short story. I do love application servers. Especially GlassF…
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