Connecting to Amazon VPC
Overview Amazons virtual privacy cloud service (VPC) offers great outsourcing possibilities for your less private (but still private) services. Consider a Jenkins build server. You have got one on your...
View ArticleManaging an Apache server with Puppet
Puppet is a configuration manager embracing the infrastructure-as-code movement. It allows you to describe the desired configuration of your system. One of the most common tasks for Puppet is to...
View ArticlePatching PicketLink to support multiple LDAP stores
The PicketLink framework[1] provides identity management (IDM)[2] to applications based on different identity providers. PicketLink offers support for a number of different identity store back-ends...
View ArticleJumping into continuous delivery with Jenkins and SSH
Let’s imagine the following situation. You’re working on an application for a customer. Despite a firm deadline and a roadmap given to your customer, he’d like to check the progress regularly, let’s...
View ArticleDeploying applications continuously with SCP
The last blog post (Jumping into continuous delivery with Jenkins and SSH) demonstrated how to build and deploy an application continuously using Jenkins, SSH and Nexus. In that scenario, the...
View ArticleExtending CDI Observer pattern to support global events
CDI introduced a convenient implementation of the observer pattern into the JavaEE world. Using the CDI API, components can emit events, or receive events created by other components (using the...
View ArticleBrave new world – Migrating a Java EE Application from JBoss AS 6 to JBoss AS 7
We are migrating an existing Java EE Application from JBoss AS 6 to JBoss AS 7. This blog post introduces our experience we have gained during the migration of the application to the new JBoss AS 7....
View ArticleMaven Sites – Reloaded
In recent times, Maven Sites came close to becoming extinct. Maven Plugins were still using them for the wonderful automatic documentation page (named goals), but regular projects were not using them...
View ArticleExposing a web service via https with JBoss FUSE
Have you ever tried to expose a JAX-WS web service via https in JBoss FUSE? Well I tried to do that recently and ran into issues. I hope this post may help you on that task. You could start by simply...
View ArticleThe akquinet tech@spree Technology Radar is now available
akquinet tech@spree has published a technology radar analyzing the trends of 2011–2012. It provides an overview of the evolution of practice in the Information Technology sector in 2011 as well as a...
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