Introduction A couple of weeks ago I wrote about using Apache to simulate an SSL load balancer and showed this diagram: One of the important things to note is...
Introduction A couple of weeks ago I wrote about using Apache to simulate an SSL load balancer and showed this diagram: One of the important things to note is that by default in this architecture WebLogic and any J2EE applications won't know that the user is using SSL to access the server because any calls to HttpServletRequest.isSecure() will return false! Main Article There is a solution though - two configuration directives in the Weblogic web server plug-ins (mod_wl in...
Introduction A couple of weeks ago I wrote about using Apache to simulate an SSL load balancer and showed this diagram: One of the important things to note is that by default in this...
Introduction When you write a J2EE app or use any of the technologies that are built on top of J2EE some aspects of what happens underneath you are one step...
Introduction When you write a J2EE app or use any of the technologies that are built on top of J2EE some aspects of what happens underneath you are one step removed from magic. That's great when you're in the development process, but when you get closer to production you may need pull back the curtain a bit so you can plan properly. Main Article Let's say you have a very simple Servlet that does two things: tells you who you are and counts the number of times you've loaded...
Introduction When you write a J2EE app or use any of the technologies that are built on top of J2EE some aspects of what happens underneath you are one step removed from magic. That's great when...
OIM & BPEL Working together? OIM 11g release brought us the powerful world of Oracle BPEL based workflows: from this release on, Oracle BPEL is the workflow...
OIM & BPEL Working together? OIM 11g release brought us the powerful world of Oracle BPEL based workflows: from this release on, Oracle BPEL is the workflow engine to be used by OIM in all sorts of requests and their related approval processes. While this integration makes OIM workflows way more powerful and flexible when compared to OIM 9.x, the development process is quite different. The idea for this article is to provide tips for making the development process more...
OIM & BPEL Working together? OIM 11g release brought us the powerful world of Oracle BPEL based workflows: from this release on, Oracle BPEL is the workflow engine to be used by OIM in all sorts of...
Introduction This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle Access Manager Academy. An index to the entire series with links to...
Introduction This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle Access Manager Academy. An index to the entire series with links to each of the separate posts is available. In my last two posts on OAM I discussed OAM 11g login and cookies and OAM 11g session management. I thought I'd cover the logout process next. There's an entire chapter dedicated to the subject of logout in the OAM documentation. The following by no means replaces that chapter....
Introduction This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle Access Manager Academy. An index to the entire series with links to each of the separate posts...
Introduction Code source grants are policies governing the rights of code running in a JVM (Java Virtual Machine). In this article, I talk about 3 common...
Introduction Code source grants are policies governing the rights of code running in a JVM (Java Virtual Machine). In this article, I talk about 3 common implementation issues when dealing with code source grants in a Weblogic/OPSS (Oracle Platform Security Services) environment. Code requiring grants are one of the protection mechanisms offered in the Java platform since Java SE 1.2. Java SE 1.2 improved the previous versions by allowing a fine-grained authorization model,...
Introduction Code source grants are policies governing the rights of code running in a JVM (Java Virtual Machine). In this article, I talk about 3 common implementation issues when dealing with...
I recently said the following to someone in an IMversation: ldapsearch and ldapmodify are about 10 times better than a stupid GUI because you can script...
I recently said the following to someone in an IMversation: ldapsearch and ldapmodify are about 10 times better than a stupid GUI because you can script everything. it's like the difference between knowing SQL and having to use TOAD or Access (*shudder*) to add rows to a db table I think if I had a personal motto it would be something like "if I can't script it then I'm not interested." (well that or "oh look, shiny!") I recently had to extend my LDAP schema of an OID 11g...
I recently said the following to someone in an IMversation: ldapsearch and ldapmodify are about 10 times better than a stupid GUI because you can script everything. it's like the difference between...
This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle Access Manager Academy. An index to the entire series with links to each of the...
This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle Access Manager Academy. An index to the entire series with links to each of the separate posts is available. Yesterday's post on OAM 11g SSO and Cookies discussed how login works in OAM and the HTTP Cookies you will see. There is one little detail that I left out so as to not make the discussion too complicated. Specifically I left out the OAM server side session tracking. In OAM 10g and other...
This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle Access Manager Academy. An index to the entire series with links to each of the separate posts is available....
Introduction This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle Access Manager Academy. An index to the entire series with links to each of the separate posts is available. Our compatriot Eric Leach over at the Oracle Access Management Blog wrote a post describing how SSO works in OAM 11g. It's a great post and fills in all sorts of details about the cookies used, how they're named and how all of the parts fit together. OAM 11g supports a few...
Introduction I don't know about you, but I know I'd rather spend an hour writing a script to automate something than 30 minutes figuring out how to use an...
Introduction I don't know about you, but I know I'd rather spend an hour writing a script to automate something than 30 minutes figuring out how to use an existing but annoying/terrible tool. I do that not because I am a glutton for punishment, but because I know I'll have to use that terrible tool again in the future and I won't remember how to use it anyway. So when I needed certificates for a test environment I checked out OpenSSL's built in CA tool, quickly decided...
Introduction I don't know about you, but I know I'd rather spend an hour writing a script to automate something than 30 minutes figuring out how to use an existing but annoying/terrible tool. I do...
