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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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]