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Designing a Secure REST (Web) API without OAuth

Riyad Kalla — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:32:31 +0000

Situation You want to develop a RESTful web API for developers that is secure to use, but doesn’t require the complexity of OAuth and takes a simple “pass the credentials in the query” approach… or something equally-as-easy for people to use, but it needs to be secure. You are a smart guy, so you start [...]

Develop using the Play! Framework

Ray Gomez — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:15:45 +0000

Not too long ago I posted an article on the Play! framework. The framework has some promising features that really helps develop web applications in Java. To show how easy it is to use, I wanted to demonstrate with an example. Update #1: Since the article posting there have been a couple of suggestions for [...]

The Play! Framework

Ray Gomez — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:14:45 +0000

In an endless search for efficiently building Web applications, one might stumble upon a new framework called Play! Using enterprise backed Java with a Rails-esque feel, the Play! framework seems to offer quite a bit over traditional web development tools with its straightforward development environment and ease of deploying. Taken from the website: The Play! [...]

ZK 3.5.1 Released – RIA Framework, NetBeans Plugin and Tutorial

Ray Gomez — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:47:51 +0000

This past week ZKoss refreshed their flagship product, ZK, to version 3.5.1. If you haven’t heard of ZK before, it is a very slick framework which was “designed to maximize enterprise operation efficiency and minimize the development cost [with] its groundbreaking Direct RIA architecture. ” Unlike most marketing ploys used to overstate the capabilities of [...]

Easy Encryption in Java and Python with Keyczar

Ray Gomez — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:33:09 +0000

Do you need to encrypt small text data, like serial numbers or customer numbers in your web application? With the amount of data being transmitted online and the increasing need to protect customers against identity theft, encryption is the one and only choice to keep customers safe. Unfortunately, implementing encryption is a daunting task and [...]

Using 'resources' path in Wicket Causes Problems Loading CSS, Images and JavaScript

Riyad Kalla — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:44:02 +0000

Bah… 3 hours worth of debugging and finally figured out what was going on with this issue in Wicket and wnated to share this with any other developers out there that might be running into this. Issue I typically create a /resources directory under the root of any web app I’m working on where I [...]

Wicket vs JSF, Forum Application

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:41:53 +0000

Peter Thomas has put together an excellent blog post comparing the development of a simple “forum application” using both Wicket (now in Apache Incubator) and JavaServer Faces (JSF). I’ve wanted to do a comparison like this for a long time and while I’ve developed using both technologies I’ve never done a side by side comparison [...]