Connecting Jive SBS to an SSL Protected Webservice
This was the task. We are hooking up Jive SBS to an SSO server for authentication and I am writing a plugin to handle this task. In the plugin, I come to the part of the code where I need to communicate with an external webservice. In order for java to communicate [...]
Useful Jive SBS System Properties
I have never seen a list by Jive Software of non-default but useful System Properties for SBS that can change default behaviors. This is a shame because they have a lot of them; however, you need to find them in the source code to even know about them; or open a help desk ticket [...]
Endeca Cheat Sheet
I am simply keeping some notes here as a cheat sheet for when doing development with the Endeca Search platform.
Install mdex, iapworkbench, cas, platformservice and dstd. Extract the deploymentTemplate into the same MDEX directory – for organization purposes, create a directory called solutions and extract the zip file into that directory. [...]
Crowd Authentication Server Review
I started working with the Crowd application for single sign-on and identity management about four months ago. I have been quite impressed with it. The application allows your applications to use a centralized repository for user authentication. Additionally, it provides an OpenID service for your same users as well.
The Crowd application is [...]
VPSLand Review
I was in need of some external facing virtualized servers and ran across the website at http://vpsland.com. I was skeptical at first as the specs on the website said nothing about them running on ESX servers. But I decided to give it a try. I tried both Fedora virtualized servers and a [...]
Running Multiple Instances of Tomcat
There are times when you need to run multiple instances of Tomcat on the same Linux based server. My need came as I tried to run Jive Clearspace, Jira, and Bamboo all on the same instance of Tomcat in different directories. The first thing I noticed was that the logs were cluttered with [...]
Integrating Crowd with Subversion
This blog post is not intended to replace the installation documentation put out by Atlassian. Instead, I would like to share information about the integration and installation that you may find useful.
Crowd is a single sign on server application that allows multiple web applications to log on using a centralized user repository. The [...]
Still Can’t get Apache mod.rewrite to Work?
Seems like everytime I need to configure Apache to use mod.rewrite, I follow all of the instructions to ensure that the library files are installed with Apache and also check that the .htaccess file is all correct…yet it still does not work. There is one extra step that seems to be left out of [...]
This script must be run as root – Failed Jive SBS Installation
You ever run into this statement when you are already logged in as root? Quite confusing. I encountered it while installing Jive SBS on a Red Hat Linux 4.0 machine. I would run the installation script as rpm -ip jive-sbs-versionnumber.rpm and would encounter the error message. To continue I had to [...]
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: When not aligning with a user install you must specify a local repository location using the setLocalRepositoryDirectory( File ) method.
I encountered this error while setting up a continous build system using the Bamboo system from Atlassian Software. Setting up Bamboo was not difficult at all. However, this problem occurred when I attempted to add a Maven2 project. If you are not familiar with Maven2, it is a build system for java [...]
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