Sun Developer Network Piece Presents Six Scenarios
The browser-based applications that present the kinds of engrossing user interfaces (UIs) and content previously found only in desktop applications — otherwise known as Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) — are becoming increasingly popular with developers, writes Sun Developer Network staffer Ed Ort, in part because of the ubiquity of the Internet and also because of the improved uniformity in the way different browsers handle RIAs.
Some First Steps for Budding Storage Service Vendors
“Proof of Concept for a Simple Storage Service,” an article by Carol Zhang and Case Cao on the Sun Developer Network, briefly introduces the components that make up a storage service, describes in detail how to use Apache web server to set up a proof of concept (PoC) for a simple storage service, and touches on issues affecting storage service in the real world.
Focuses on New Technologies, Usability Improvements
Sun Developer Network (SDN) staff writer Ed Ort has written a three-part article series introducing the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 6 platform. Released this December, Java EE 6 adds significant new technologies and extends the usability improvements made in previous Java EE releases. Ort’s review of the platform highlights some of these enhancements.
Learn How to Define Customized Polices and Improve User Experience
Learn how to configure the OpenSSO server and its Policy Agents to use IP/Resource/Environment-based authentication for a flexible mechanism that can define customized policies and improve user experience for access control. The three-part article series hosted on the Sun Developer Network comes from the minds of Qingwen Cheng, Mrudul Uchil and Rick Palkovic. The series explain the resource authentication architecture and information flow of OpenSSO components, and presents five use cases for enterprise/corporate SSO and federated SSO deployments.
If you’ve been interested in trying out OpenSolaris but aren’t sure where to begin, take some time to read a Sun Developer Network article that shows you how to give it a try via a Live CD, and move on to actually installing the open source OS if long-term use is preferred.
How to Analyze and Troubleshoot OpenSSO Deployments
A five-part Sun Developer Network article series explains how to analyze and troubleshoot OpenSSO deployments with the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Jim Faut along with contributions from Rick Palkovic begin with an introduction and configuration description, followed by these OpenSSO deployment examples: single sign-on and policy protection, cross-domain single sign-on, service provider initiated Fedlet single sign-on and identity provider initiated Fedlet single sign-on.
Employs Native OpenSSO Integration Agent at Runtime
In their Sun Developer Network paper on “Delegating XML Gateway Runtime Authorization to OpenSSO” Francois Lascelles and Rick Palkovic describe how access control rules defined in OpenSSO can be enforced at runtime by SecureSpan XML Gateway through its native OpenSSO integration agent. XML Gateways, they explain, are dedicated applications that enable a centralized approach to security and identity enforcement.
How to “Use NetBeans IDE 6.7 to Combine JAR Files Into a Single JAR File” is the subject of Robert Eckstein’s Sun Developer Network article that provides a workaround for the limitation in Java Warehouse that prevents the uploading of applications composed of several Java Archive (JAR) files into the Java Warehouse. This can be accomplished, Eckstein writes, by concatenating each of the user and library classes into a single JAR file. He claims this is very easy to do for both Java and JavaFX projects using NetBeans IDE 6.7.1.
How to Manage App Memory and Resolve Common Issues
Learn the basics for managing application memory on Solaris and resolving common memory usage problems in a Sun Developer Network article by Xinfeng Liu. His article discusses how to observe memory usage on Solaris, how application memory is laid out on Solaris and how to use the libumem memory allocator to improve memory allocation efficiency.
The Sun Developer Network paper “Securing REST Web Services with OAuth” by Malla Simachalam and Rick Palkovic explores an example REpresentational State Transfer (REST) application that uses the open-source protocol OAuth to address security issues.
