The Eclipse foundation announced today the availability of Xtend, and improvement on the Java language, that remains compatible. See the video below, and check out the Xtend website to see for yourself, how Xtend embraces Java, while improving it readability and adding a number of nifty features, some of which programmers like in Smalltalk, Perl, [...]
How to install Tomcat 6 on RHEL 6 or CentOS 6
Here are some steps to install Tomcat 6 on Red Hat 6 (or CentOS 6). First we are going to prepare the repository: yum install yum-priorities rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/generic/free/RPMS/jpackage-utils-5.0.0-7.jpp6.noarch.rpm Next we will install Java and Tomcat 6: yum -y install java yum -y install tomcat6 tomcat6-webapps tomcat6-admin-webapps Finally [...]
Installing a Secure Certificate on IBM Smart Business Server (VERDE)
At the time of this writing, the IBM Smart Business Server’s control panel doesn’t allow importing a secure certificate (SSL cert). Never-the-less it is possible to install a valid (CA signed) secure certificate from the command line. This article assumes that the reader is familiar with SSL and the basic SSL KEY, CSR, and CRT [...]
Sametime 8.5.1 Deployment
To deploy a Sametime environment with multiple levels of licensing, multiple Sametime servers with each respective license versions needed (Entry, Standard, etc.). The Sametime wiki has a number of useful resources to plan out a complex Sametime deployment: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/page.xsp?documentId=6F6353B28F5FB51185257775007AC431&action=openDocument http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/1.3_Lotus_Sametime_product_family http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/xpViewCategories.xsp?lookupName=Learning%20Center And here are some documents that delve into the details: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/Chapter_2._Planning_a_Sametime_8.5.1_deployment http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/sametime/v8r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.sametime.v851.doc/plan/plan_topol_deploy.html
Verifying SSL Certificates
Problem You have a few SSL cert files on your server, but you are not sure which one is the newest, or the right cert to use. Solution Look at the contents of a CSR openssl req -noout -text -in [domain_name].csr Where [domain_name].csr is the name of the CSR file. Look at the contents of [...]
Java Shopping Cart and eCommerce Solutions
Java Shopping Cart Hosting The need to host a shopping cart comes up on a regular basis. There are literally hundreds of very good solutions out there. Here is a list of carts that satisfy the following criteria: – configurable – customizable – embeddable – has a flexible API – compatible with IBM DB2 – [...]
Online fax service with SSL API
Problem You need to create an online application that is capable of sending a FAX securely (PCI, HIPAA or other compliance). Solution After trying trustfax and eFax, neither of which has a secure API, Ralph found that Metro Fax has a SSL API for developers and the cost is reasonable. The following SDK as well [...]
Installing Informix IDS 11.x on Mac OS X
Problem Installing IDS 11 on Mac OS X Solution After installing the server, update the sqlhosts file and replace the default host name by * so that the server listens on all IPs. The sqlhosts file may be names sqlhosts.ol_server_name, and its contents would look like: ol_server_name onsoctcp * ol_server_name dr_server_name drsoctcp * dr_server_name References [...]
Migrating Data to DB2 9.7 LUW
Problem You reached the limit or your unhappy with the performance or features of your database server, and you want to move to DB2. The transition can be simple with respect to your code, as it may be just a matter of changing a few lines of code for the connection string, and setting the [...]
IBM Security Tools
IBM has a comprehensive approach to encourage security by design. A free Red Book is available for developers: The IBM Redbook for Security in Development The home page for IBM’s main security testing tool is IBM Rational AppScan