Masoud Kalali's Blog

Identity, something that we hear more often these days with the whole web 2.0 and social services and more and more web based public services growing around us. The identity notion is an integral part of a security system in distributed services. Developing effective software system require an effective security and access control system which [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

In this entry you will learn how to use nio.2 to change the files and directories attributes and permissions using nio.2 included in Java 7.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Learning GlassFish v3 Command Line Administration Interface (CLI) Terminals and consoles was one of the earliest types of communication interfaces between a system administrator and the system administration layer. Due to this long time presence,  command line administration consoles become one the most utilized administration channel for configuring different software ranging from database engines to [...]