Archive for March, 2005

How to Deploy a Webapp Using Basic Auth in Websphere 5

Friday, March 25th, 2005

Since I’ve spent most of the week trying to deploy our application in WebSphere using basic authentication and JAAS, I thought I’d document my pain here so that nobody ever has to go through this again.
Pandora’s Checkbox
When you want to do anything having to do with security in WebSphere, you need to log into the [...]

Why is Enterprise Software So Bad?

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

Now that I’m a seasoned Senior Enterprise Software Engineer with 6 years of industry experience, I feel qualified to point out that as a whole, enterprise software is kind of a joke. Case in point: I spent the last two days trying to configure security settings in IBM WebSphere. Security is inherently complicated, so I [...]