Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

This paper explains how to use the Java Authentication and Authorization API (JAAS). It plugs JAAS into the Struts framework. Though this paper focuses on Struts, and in particular the example ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I'm developing a Java webapp for displaying my photos on the web. It is a simple war file that takes a hierarchy of folders and displays them as web pages with thumbnails, folder navigation ...

An introduction to the lean REST framework that turns a number of popular Java libraries into a more streamlined alternative to Spring. Dropwizard is a REST-oriented framework that draws together ...

I just installed Apache's Tomcat on my MacOS X Unix workstation for my own J2EE website work, and like it a lot.<BR><BR>Anyway, I just found out that it supports Webdav, which is a plus for me, ...