Mar 12
SAML, WS-Security and the Secure Token Service of WS-Trust result in a very interesting mix, where federated identity and integration (web services) come together.
Microsoft has published the free book(let) “A Guide to Claims–based Identity and Access Control“. Obviously the book is focused on Microsoft technology, ADFS (code name Geneva), FAM and WIF in particular. But I found the first 2 chapters very informative and well written.
E.g. interesting to have confirmation that applications need to keep maintaining fine grained (data level) authorizations themselves.
Also intersting to read about the challenge of home realm discovery: how to know to what Identity provider an external user should be redirected to.
One of the main challenges in my opionion with federated identity is the transformation of tokens/claims. Unless there is further standardization (profiles), the integration with each external business partners will require token transformations. There seems to be a general tendency in WS-land not to bother too much with the actual business content of SOAP messages or SAML tokens.
The day when SAML tokens can be used in an interoperable manner to connect to back-end applications such as SAP or Oracle will be a great day. Looking forward to it.
Tags: application,
business,
business partners,
Discovery,
ims,
microsoft,
oracle,
sap,
security,
SOA,
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Technology,
web,
Web Services,
websphere,
XP
Feb 23
My official opinion of Google Buzz has moved from ‘mppph’ to ‘hmmm’ after a friend posted (buzzed?) the following entertaining information. It would be churlish of me not to share his post with you (virtually) verbatim. Enjoy, and please share any additional finds in the comments! – Alex
Unsecured webcams rule!
Denver’s HoboCam. It’s compelling viewing.
Update: There’s a dude pottering about the lab/control room thingy. DO SOME SCIENCE, UNKNOWN MAN I HAPPEN TO BE VOYEURISTICALLY WATCHING OVER THE INTERNET!!!
Update 2: Speedcam just flashed at someone. I am now a witness to the Orwellian efficency of the British traffic police.
If you want to see other stuff, enter one of the following search strings into Google:
inurl:”ViewerFrame?Mode=
intitle:Axis 2400 video server
inurl:/view.shtml
intitle:”Live View / – AXIS” | inurl:view/view.shtml^
inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=
inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh
inurl:axis-cgi/jpg
inurl:axis-cgi/mjpg (motion-JPEG)
inurl:view/indexFrame.shtml
inurl:view/index.shtml
inurl:view/view.shtml
liveapplet
intitle:”live view” intitle:axis
intitle:liveapplet
allintitle:”Network Camera NetworkCamera”
intitle:axis intitle:”video server”
intitle:liveapplet inurl:LvAppl
intitle:”EvoCam” inurl:”webcam.html”
intitle:”Live NetSnap Cam-Server feed”
intitle:”Live View / – AXIS”
intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 206M”
intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 206W”
intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 210″
inurl:indexFrame.shtml Axis
inurl:”MultiCameraFrame?Mode=Motion”
intitle:start inurl:cgistart
intitle:”WJ-NT104 Main Page”
intext:”MOBOTIX M1″ intext:”Open Menu”
intext:”MOBOTIX M10″ intext:”Open Menu”
intext:”MOBOTIX D10″ intext:”Open Menu”
intitle:snc-z20 inurl:home/
intitle:snc-cs3 inurl:home/
intitle:snc-rz30 inurl:home/
intitle:”sony network camera snc-p1″
intitle:”sony network camera snc-m1″
site:.viewnetcam.com -www.viewnetcam.com
intitle:”Toshiba Network Camera” user login
intitle:”netcam live image”
intitle:”i-Catcher Console – Web Monitor”
Then just keep clicking on the results until you find something interesting!
(Thanks Mike!)
Tags: Apple,
camera,
cell,
google,
information,
Internet,
network,
Science,
security,
Server,
SOA,
soap,
Sony,
type,
web
Oct 17
The Devoxx conference is the place to be for everyone interested in Java and related techologies. And as one of the members of the steering team, I’m proud (again) on the impressive list of speakers we’ve gathered. My personal focus and interest is SOA and Cloud Computing. And that will definitely be covered at Devoxx!
University Day 1 – Monday Nov 16
The Cambrian Cloud Computing Explosion – John M Willis
Got to know John though his podcasts. John has a strong background in systems management and Tivoli, but his current focus is Cloud. And rest assured that he knows what a cloud is and knows all the players. For all the could enthusiastics: strongly recommended!
jBPM in Action – Tom Baeyens
Tom is “mister jBPM”, the main driver behind jBPM, the JBoss BPM offering.
Architecting Robust Applications for Amazon EC2 – Chris Richardson
Chris is the founder of CloudFoundry. CloudFoundry provides tooling (and more) to deploy Java applications on Amazon EC2.
Note: CloudFoundry got acquired by SpringSource and SpringSource in turn got acquired by VMWare. Which is interesting as Amazon and VMWare are seen as big competing players in the cloud space.
SOA, OpenESB and OpenSSO Programming with Passion! – Sang Shin
Talk will be based on Sang’s free online SOA course material.
University Day 2 – Tuesday Nov 16
Google App Engine for Java – a real live voyage to The Cloud
Develop along with the speakers your first (or next) application on the Google App Engine. No sales pitch, as the speakers are – Sam Brodkin and Scott Stevenson – are independent(s).
SOA In Practice – Nicolai Josuttis
Nicolas is the author of the book “SOA in practice“. One of the better SOA books in my opinion.
Conference Day 1 – Wednesday Nov 17
ESB’s and WebServices in Practice – Nicolai Josuttis
Once more Nicolas, but now with a more focused talk on the use of ESB’s.
Architecting Robust Applications for Amazon EC2 – Chris Richardson
A condensed version of the University talk.
jBPM4 in Action – Tom Baeyens
A shortened version, ideal if you went to the cloud talk of John Willis on Monday.
Keeping Your Options Open, Even if the Cloud is Not – Doug Tidwell
Another specialist wrt. XSLT 2.0, but that’s not the topic of this session. Doug will rather talk about the different Cloud offerings and standardization in the cloud space.
Distributed Programming the Google Way – Gregor Hohpe
Gregor is famous for his Integration Patterns. Focus of this talk are the base technologies underlying the Google imperium and the Google cloud solutions.
Conference Day 2 – Thrusday Nov 18
Using XML with Java: Spoilt for Choice? – Michael Kay
Michael Kay is the author of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor. Michael is “Mr XSLT”. XML remains an important aspect of SOA and general (Java) development.
Note: actually we have 2nd XSLT guru at Devoxx, Doug Tidwell
Google Appengine Java: Groovy baby! – Patrick Chanezon and Guillaume Laforge
Another perspective on the Google AppEngine with focus on running different JVM based languages on Google AppEngine.
Master Data Management – Pierre Bonnet
Master Data Mangement is another important aspect of a SOA. Speaker is Pierre Bonnet, founder of the MDM Alliance Group.
Conference Day 3 – Friday Nov 19
BPM in a SOA Environment – Paul Brown
Paul Brown is the author of 2 great SOA books, is an architect at Tibco, but most importantly he is a senior, mild and fluent speaker on SOA. For this Devoxx talk, we have asked Paul to focus on BPM. Recommended!
Open Source SOA with Fuse – James Strachan
James is involved in a tremendous number of open source projects, usually focused on SOA and integraton, with ActiveMQ and ServiceMix being the most well known. Will be interesting to learn about the status of Fuse, the ESB based on ServiceMix.
Note: in particular as Progress acquired Iona and is behind FuseSource
Note 2: for those who remember the CXF WS framework, that’s part of Fuse
See you at Devoxx!
Tags: application,
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Computing,
Data Management,
Development,
EAI,
Environment,
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material,
Personal,
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Software,
space,
system,
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web,
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