Jason Lee 2013-08-22

Maven has a dependency scope, provided, that indicates that the dependency should not be in the archive. Gradle does not provide such a scope out of the box, but it's easy enough to add. The following Gradle build demonstrates a very bare-bones Java EE 7 web application setup:

Many know Arquillian as a great integration, functional, acceptance testing platform. Until recently, I thought of it solely as a great Java EE tool, but an Arquillian extension, known as Droidium, allows you to use Arquillian to help drive your Android testing. I spent some time tonight trying to get it set up for Cub Tracker and thought I'd share what (little) I have so far.

Jason Lee 2013-07-12

In the last post , we took a look at the server side of our OAuth2 system. In this post, we'll take a quick look at the unit tests that will act as TheUser.

Jason Lee 2013-07-11

When implementing web site security, OAuth2 almost always comes up. We've had requests to implement OAuth2 in the GlassFish REST interface, and, it turns out, I have a similar need on a personal project. Looking at the spec, though, OAuth2 can be pretty daunting. Fortunately, you don't need to understand it all, and Apache has a project, Oltu (nee Amber) that handles most of the implementation.

Jason Lee 2013-07-08

I've been spending some time with the Play Framework recently, and one of my first questions was, "Can I deploy this to an app server?", to which the answer is "No. Play is its own container". That (to be honest) somewhat disappointing answer reminded me of some discussions I recenlty saw but mostly ignored about "containerless frameworks". I'm afraid I'm going to have to let my dumb hang out (as my dad used to love to say) and confess that I guess I don't get it. :)