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Nested LDAP Groups in JBoss Portal with Active Directory

While JBoss Portal supports Active Directory for authentication and authorization, as of versions 2.6.X and the 2.7 CR, the product does not support nested groups for a given user when the LDAP server itself does not provide recursive capabilities. Unfortunately, Microsoft Active Directory does not support recursive queries for nested groups.
In this article, I’ll describe [...]

Print Watermarks with CSS

So, as we all know - CSS has its limitations. If you’ve ever tried to implement printable watermarks with CSS, then you’ve no doubt come across a few of them. From vertical centering, to cross-browser feature support, to mysterious print-mode CSS rendering - printable watermarks turn out to be a real pain to get working [...]

Windows Short File Name (ShortPath) in ANT

var dzone_style=”2″;I ran into an interesting problem today while working on an ANT build script. I needed to access the path of a directory in windows with spaces, but without using quotes. One way to do this is with the Windows short file name.
So, I needed to access the Windows short file name (also [...]

IBM WCM 6.1 Improvements

IBM recently released WebSphere Portal 6.1 BETA 4, which will be the final beta release before launch later this summer (currently rumored for July 2008). This release has various improvements to WCM, IBM’s web content management product.
I recently installed the beta on a VMWare image and have started poking around with it. I decided to [...]

Taking the Sun Certified Business Component Developer Exam

Note: this is an adaptation of a write-up I did for work. Hope you enjoy it.
Who (should read this?)
Java developers and aspiring architects
What (are we talking about?)

Taking the Sun Certified Business Component Developer (for Java, Enterprise Edition 5) exam.
This exam covers Enterprise JavaBeans 3, the new Java Persistence API (JPA - largely based on Hibernate) [...]

IBM WCM 6 Security Model

Well, I’ve been working with IBM’s content management product for a while now and I figured it was time to write up something useful for others. IBM Workplace Web Content Management (IBM WCM) comes bundled with IBM WebSphere Portal V6 and can be used to manage web content in and out of a Portal. One [...]

Integrating TinyMCE with SharePoint (MOSS) 2007

The Problem
At my company, we use Sharepoint 2007 for our internal intranet. It’s a pretty good off-the-shelf product overall, but in typical M$ fashion, the rich-text editing capabilities in MOSS 2007 are Internet Explorer-only. The thing is, at a technology company, a lot of users tend to use other better browsers, like Opera or Firefox. [...]