The Sun Identity Management Buzz blog updated with an IDM-based game. The objective is to become an “Identity Hero” and save the enterprise money by provisioning users, implementing single-sign-on, locking out disgruntled former employees, doing battle with SarBox monsters and auditors, and federating with partners. I played it for a bit and I [...]

There’s been a recent teaser campaign from Sun introducing the Fedlet. What is the Fedlet? It’s apparently Sun’s hot, new solution to the problem of federated single-sign-on. An identity provider, a bank for example, can use Sun’s Federated Access Manager to create a Fedlet to send to the service providers in their [...]

Sun recently acquired MySQL, a gutsy move that some might interpret as a slap in the face to Oracle. Oracle’s database has been a key part of enterprise Java software stacks for a long time and, until this point, a relational database was one of the few things that Sun did not directly provide [...]

Michael and I recently read this article on a relatively new project at Sun: “a royalty-free and open video codec and media system”.
There is much debate among members of the W3C about what codec should be the standard for embedded video on the Internet. The W3C has insisted that any video codec standard for [...]

We just recently caught wind of some proposed “extensions” to Java under JSR-666. One of them in particular had us all laughing and that was the yoda keyword. Here’s example code showing how this new keyword would be used:
yoda (UnsupportedEncodingException) {
String s = new String(byteArray, “UTF-8″);
}
I didn’t quite get [...]

We recently worked on a short J2EE project using the Spring MVC framework. One of the models was particularly complicated, with multi-valued attributes that needed to be added, edited, and removed within the one form. The controller logic was starting to look like a complete mess of if-else statements as we tried to [...]

Since working at Tenthline, I’ve been involved in three major projects. The first, and the largest of these, was working with a heavyweight content management system put out by Fatwire. I hadn’t had much web experience at that point, so working with Content Server was a challenge, but it wasn’t until I played [...]