Masoud Kalali's Blog

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 will write a series of blog to discuss what are the new features introduced in NIO.2 (JSR 203). The NIO.2 implementation is a part of OpenJDK project and we can alreay use it by downloading a copy of OpenJDK binary.  In the first entry I will just go through what are these new I/O [...]

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 [...]

Java EE Security refcard is available for download. This refcard covers Java EE 6 security and discuss how each application server supports the specs. The refcard covers authentication, authorization, and transport security in Web Application, EJB application and web services by introducing the concept and the related annotations and deployment descriptors which help us realize [...]

Please use the following articles while I am updating this entry How to have your Own CA and configure Glassfish and your clients for mutual authentication? How to have your Own CA and configure Glassfish and your clients for mutual authentication?, Part II Please post any comment or question here so we can have one [...]

The Book in Details: Security was, is, and will be one of the most important aspects of Enterprise Applications and one of the most challenging areas for architects, developers, and administrators. It is mandatory for Java EE application developers to secure their enterprise applications using Glassfish security features. Learn to secure Java EE artifacts (like [...]

Management is one of the most crucial parts of an application server set of functionalities. Development of the application which we deploy into the server happens once with minor development iteration during the software lifecycle, but the management is a lifetime task. One of the very powerful features of the GlassFish application server is the [...]

Spring framework is one of the biggest and the most comprehensive frameworks Java Community can utilize to cover most of the  end to end requirement of a software system when it come to implementation. Spring Security and Spring Remoting are two important parts of the framework which covers security in a descriptive way and let [...]

Talking about messaging imply two basic functionalities which all other provided features are built around them; these two capabilities include support for topics and queues which basically lets a message to be consumed by as many interested consumer  as subscribed or at just one of the interested consumer(s). Messaging middleware was present in the industry [...]

NetBeans 6.8 released coordinated with GlassFish v3 today. NetBeans 6.8 can be considered a fine step ahead of NetBeans because Sun is officially supporting the NetBeans RCP platform as a product from now on. NetBeans 6.8 features are as follow: Java Enterprise Edition 6 support Web Projects with JavaServer Faces 2.0 (Facelets) JavaFX 1.2.1 support [...]