To start with a little background, then I will outline the options for authentication of HTTP based server APIs with a focus on HMAC and lastly I will provide some tips for developers building and using HMAC based authentication. Recently I have been doing quite a bit of research and hacking in and around server APIs. Authentication for these type APIs really depends on the type of service, and falls into a couple of general categories:...
Having recently developed a plugin (Ruby Rake Plugin) for Atlassian’s Bamboo continuous integration (CI) server I thought I would put together a list of tips for those looking to do the same. As there are some great documents provided by Atlassian on how to get started with plugin development I am not going to go into a lot of detail in this area, it is assumed you already messed around a bit with the Plugin SDK....
Currently I do quite a bit of work in and around the Java virtual machine (JVM), most of the time on Linux. When things go awry and I am trying to establish why, I reach for the Java performance analysis tools. These tools come in two forms, the wonderful GUI known as visualvm, which I use when I am working on my local machine, and the cli tools packaged with the Java Development Kit (JDK), which I use when working remotely....
For a while I have been tempted to stray from the relative safety of Maven and Ant. Every time I fight with these tools, or in the case of maven am stunned and amazed out how simple things can require so much xml, I look over the alternatives wondering if it could be easier. After quite a bitter fight with ant at work I decided it was time to give one of thes new contenders a try....
I discovered a couple of interesting issues when using Apache CXF and Maven behind a proxy this week. It started when I sent out a package of stubs in a Maven project I had built to enable developers of integration systems to regenerate there own stubs from the live WSDL. This project uses the wsdl2java tool from Apache CXF to generate some JAX-WS based SOAP stubs from the WSDL hosted on a staging server on the internet....
Recently I have been looking into setting up my own build server, having used Cruisecontrol, Hudson, Teamcity in the passed I wanted to give something new a try. With the recent release of Bamboo 3.1.1 I thought I would see what all the fuss is about. I logged onto Atlassian’s site and payed my 10 bucks, which much to my delight and respect, goes to charity. I then spun up a clean Ubuntu server running 10....