When developing an application using JBoss Seam on eclipse I came across a strange problem. When deploying an ear project with seam components the datasource configuration file ending with -ds.xml was no longer available in the add remove dialog although it was present in the resources directory within the ear project. When going through this …

Mark Wilson has written a wonderful article on setting the hostname of a Solaris 10 machine which receives its IP address via DHCP. You can find the link below http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2006/01/unknown-hostname-for-solaris-10-dhcp.htm

I was playing around with VirtualBox clients and trying to find a way to SSH to the guest from the host, when the guest is configured to use NAT. After following an article at http://mydebian.blogdns.org/?p=148 I configured the SSH as per the article. But unfortunately, when I tried starting the guest, I received the following …

I had a Deployment Manager with two remote nodes federated into it and had left them switched off for over a year now. When I restarted the Deployment Manager the new certificate expiration handling process had renewed the certificates within the /config/cells/CELL_NAME/trust.p12 and /config/cells/CELL_NAME/key.p12 files. Unfortunately the certificates on the nodeagents had expired by then …

I have been using RAD for a over 6 years now and somehow I never saw this facility. If you want to set the module class loader to PARENT_FIRST or PARENT_LAST, you can do it simply by editing the application.xml file in the EAR project before deploying. This is under the deployment tab of the …

For anyone wishing to run the above mentioned products together, a user called pbodsk has put up an excellent article in the IceFaces forum at http://icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/9891.page.

I’m sure that lots of articles have been written on this subject. When you are given the task of designing the security infrastructure around a Portal website, that has both internal and external facing applications, the rule of the thumb is to NOT mix internal and external applications on the same server. The situation becomes …