Masoud Kalali's Blog

It might have happened to you to require some customization the GlassFish behavior after you create the domain in order to make the domain fit the  basic requirements that you have in your organization or for your development purpose. Some of the files that we usually manipulate to customize GlassFish includes logging.properties, keystore.jks, cacert.jks, default-web.xml, server.policy and domain.xml. These [...]

In this article I explain how GlassFish 3.1 provides REST administration instead of AMX/JMX administration and management interface available in GlassFish 3.0

Updating Web application’s Spring Context from Beans definitions partially stored in the database. The definitions stored in the database are the security provider beans and related configurations which we will load right after the context is initialized.

This is a brief overview of the JSR 343 which is the the new specification for the JMS 2.0 API.

On the 7th of december I presented the “Security in Java EE platform: what is included, what is missing” session in the JavaForum meeting. Although I arrived somehow late and left  right after the last presentation which was done by Chet Hendrickson but I can say that the athmospher was really friendly and enjoyable. I [...]

Here you will find the winners of GlassFish security book contest I posted two weeks ago in my weblog.

Win your copy of GlassFish Security book by taking a simple 5 questions quiz. You simply answer 5 questions and then you will be included in the draw for 2 e-book copy and one paper copy of GlassFish security book.

This is a list of JavaZone 2010 sessions I am planning to attend. Selecting this list was really hard as all of the presentations are exceptionally good.

OpenESB project initiated by Sun Microsystems to develop and deliver a high performance, and feature rich implementation of Java Business Integration (JBI) under an open source friendly license. Basic task of JBI implementations is connecting different type of resources and applications together in a standard and none intrusive way. Basic building blocks of an ESB [...]

I decided to write down the answer for some questions which my book’s readers email me or ask me via twitter in my weblog so everyone can benefit from the answers. Here is the answer to the first question which involves custom security realms. GlassFish supports 5 types of security realms out of the box [...]