Core Java Web Services on JBoss

Introduction

This blog post deals with Web Services. Well, to be more exact, it deals with "plain" java web services on JBoss. That means we are going to create a web service without any additional frameworks (like CXF, Axis etc.).

JBoss it self provides support for web services. So if you are really trying to build basic web service (or if you just wish to learn about web services and try different things), JBoss Web Services should be a good starting point.

Here we go!

Spring Security - Two Security Realms in one Application

This blog post is mainly about Spring Security configuration.
More specifically it is intending to show how to configure two different security realms in one web application.
First security realm is intended for the browser clients. It enables us to log in with in the login page and access protected resources.
Second security realm is intended for the REST web service requests coming from an android application. On each request, the REST client should send required information to the server and this information will be used to decide if the RESTfull request should be allowed to pass.
The two security realms (configurations) are distinguished by different URL patterns of resources in the web application. In both configurations we are able to reuse same authentication logic.

TDD benefits example

Hello everyone,
this is my first blog ever about test driven development (TDD).
The goal of this post is to show one of the many benefits of developing code in this direction, which means: unit tests first, implementation later.
Basically you should develop your most basic implementation first (maybe a class and a single method). Then you go and write a simple unit test for that method. At first run unit test will fail. Then you steadily increase the complexity of your implementation to achieve what is needed by your unit test. Finally when you do that, you can again increase the complexity of your test, by adding more test methods to test even more implementation code functionality. As you do that, some of the tests will fail again. Then you should keep refactoring the implementation code to make the tests green and so on.. That is the basic overview of how TDD should work.
The example i am about to show you is a simple piece of code written in Java, and unit testing framework is junit. So here we go.