I've run into this from time-to-time, and usually not had to bother with it as authentication usually happens within an application, but on this project I'm trying to enforce the SSO a bit more, so I needed to get Apache to pass Tomcat the user that it h… more »

Today I had a meet-and-greet with the new client. Not an interview, as I'd already satisfied those curiosities, but just a "meet the team and banter a little bit" ice-breaker. Six new names to remember, with faces to match; a game I know I always lose, b… more »

I've been approached many times at my current gig by members of a related project about how to improve their code coverage numbers. In an abuse of the numbers or a misunderstanding of their purpose, there's a mandate to keep code coverage at 80%. The oth… more »

I didn't write it, but handy to have in your Eclipse is a complete code-coverage tool. Run your JUnit tests with this plug-in instead of straight JUnit, and it'll (try to) let you know where your tests don't hit. It's pretty easy to install. Inside Ec… more »

Been a while working on the fringes of a Sun IdM project at the office, and after months of banging my head, I find a quick link to the wiki, including an article on how to set up an IdM project (albiet in NetBeans, not Eclipse). more »

Autoboxing is a Java helper introduced with the JDK2v1.5 release that allows some common transformations to be handled by the compiler instead of forcing developers to add implicit code. A trivial example of this is transforming between the Integer ob… more »

There have probably been a few rants on this log about bad unit testing. If not, then this one ought to cover all of the bases. I write software. Currently I'm writing J2EE software (enterprise level web-services in Java, for those that don't like acr… more »