~pperalta

Matt Raible’s latest blog entry talks about using Acegi for J2EE security and a Spring configured DataSource in order to make J2EE applications (and AppFuse in particular) platform independent. In my experience, setting up a connection pool in an application server is usually not too difficult, whereas setting up container managed security is usually a PITA. Therefore, I use Acegi for security since it really does decouple your application from the container, but I continue to rely on the application server’s connection pooling. Using this strategy, I have deployed my application on JBoss, WebSphere, and WebLogic with no code changes.

Well I’ve been meaning to do this for the longest time, but I’ve finally got my blogging software set up again. This software (b2evolution) seems to be easy to use and yet powerful. Setting it up was a breeze, more so than other packages that I’ve tried out in the past. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep this site up to date!