java

When developing JEE applications these days we not only deploy ‘em as containerized apps but (at least in my teams) also use containers for local development. One issue I was confronted with the other day was a performance bug with one of our apps. Back in the days I’d have just fired up VisualVM to connect to the local process causing trouble - but now, the process to attach to doesn’t run locally anymore. ...

Recently I had to integrate a java based application with a web-service that used NTLM authentication. Since this was the first time I came across NTLM I initially had to explore how to deal with that auth-scheme. Luckily, I finally stumbled upon the Authenticator-class in Java and learned that there is build in support for NTLM already....