Performance Tuning Methodology
I’m taking a brief excursion from my usual identity and API-centric posts to answer a question about performance tuning that someone asked me earlier this year. In a previous incarnation of my career, I was focused on performance tuning and diagnostics — particularly involving Java systems.…
JBoss/PicketLink WS-Trust Client and Third-Party Security Token Services
Another use-case that I touched on during my JBoss World 2012 presentation was using the PicketLink WS-Trust Client implementation to communicate with third-party Security Token Services. In particular, we discussed how the PicketLink SAML2STSIssuingLoginModule can communicate with the IBM Tivoli…
JBoss and LTPAv2 support
I’ve been at a couple of different client sites where there was a heavy IBM product presence, the use of IBM’s proprietary token format-LTPA2, and the need for a non-IBM technology such as JBoss EAP. Given the nature of the LTPA2 technology (IBM proprietary protocol), there isn’t any direct support…
DataPower Access Rental—Maybe DataPower in the Cloud?
Ever since I was first started working with IBM WebSphere DataPower I was looking around for someone that was offering access to a IBM WebSphere Datapower, I was looking around for someone that was offering access to an Internet-facing appliance that I could use for experimenting and learning. I…
JBoss World 2012 Session…
I will be presenting at JBoss World 2012 in Boston the last week of June. I’ll be presenting with Anil Saldana on JBoss Security, PicketLink, and Identity Management, JBoss Security Architect. A link to the description can be found here. The original abstract:
WebSphere DataPower Roles and Responsibilities…
DataPower is a weird (but, wonderful) beast. It has a tendency to break some of the traditional IT silos that develop within infrastructure groups. That can lead to a lot of friction and amusing arguments in which everyone is simply talking past one another. In this post, I want to describe the…
OSI 7-Layer Network Model
I’ve been playing with Cisco switches and routers recently at home to get a handle on VLANs-more about VLANs later. Some people I know who have gotten involved in DataPower started out in system administration or networking and worked their way up the technology stack to SOA Appliances (WebSphere…
SSL Handshake—The Visual
This is an old picture that I made for a 2010 JBoss World security presentation. It came in handy not so long ago when I was explaining the SSL Handshake to someone.
XSLT & XPath
XSLT is the only scripting language supported by WebSphere DataPower appliances. It is the only way to customize DataPower functionality and behavior. So, anyone that works with DataPower for a while will sooner be writing XSLT stylesheets.
JVM Heap & GC Tuning…
So, obviously, I haven’t posted anything here in a while🙂. Life has been busy. Starting several months ago, I left my job of four years and began independent consulting. Among other things, this means that the variety of topics discussed on thinkmiddleware.com should be more varied. I’m also going…
JBoss 4.x and DataSource Configuration
On JBoss 4.x, a MySQL datasource looks something like:
HTTP Client – Form-Based Authentication
This article continues the discussion started in the Servlet Authentication article. Here we discuss Form-Based authentication; another common form of authentication when Servlet technology is used.