Dual Boot Problem

…application is missing or corrupt. I had the idea to copy ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini to drive C: but without a visible success – the screen stayed black after selecting the XP entry from the Windows 7 boot manager. Also booting from an USB stick ended with the same empty black screen. After hours of checking configurations and searching the net I had an idea directing me to the right direction: I added a second entry to boot.ini. If there i…

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Reliable restart of the weblogic server

…some environment Variables 4 HOSTNAME=my-weblogic-server.opitz-consulting.com 5 export HOSTNAME 6 env 7 8 DOMAIN_NAME=base_domain 9 DOMAIN_HOME=”/u01/app/oracle/middleware/user_projects/domains/${DOMAIN_NAME}” 10 11 echo Trying to stop CI for 60 seconds … 12 13 cd ${DOMAIN_HOME} 14 ( ${DOMAIN_HOME}/bin/stopWebLogic.sh ) & sleep 60 ; kill $! 15 16 echo Killing CI if not stopped now … 17 18 pkill -f ${DOMAIN_NAME} 19 20 echo Waiting 30 seconds…

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Creating SSLContext for up-to-date HTTPS communiction with client certificate

…lias) { return this.x509KeyManager.getPrivateKey(alias); } }; That’s now a complete solution for creating a SSLContext for HTTPS connections. Bernhard Mähr @ OPITZ-CONSULTING published at http://thecattlecrew.wordpress.com/ Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new win…

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Setting up a own CA for the enterprise

…Name (eg, section) 85 organizationalUnitName_default = IT Department 86 87 commonName = Common Name (eg, your name or your server\’s hostname) 88 commonName_max = 64 89 90 emailAddress = Email Address 91 emailAddress_max = 64 92 93 [ req_attributes ] 94 challengePassword = A challenge password 95 challengePassword_min = 4 96 challengePassword_max = 20 97 98 unstructuredName = An optional company name 99 100 ########################################…

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Using certificates for authentication at M2M communication

…of the key characteristic of the enterprise SOA is the machine to machine communication. The communication between the machines has to be secured. Important is 1.) to keep the the content of the sent messages private 2.) ensure only the authorized machine can invoke operations The first point can be achieved using HTTPS communication for webservice calls. Username and Password over HTTPS The second point is at user to machine communication often…

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Encrypted credentials in Maven with jasypt

…ith the decrypted value. The encryption of the value can be done  with the command line. The encrypted value has to be embedded into ENC(). Finally the property looks like this: 1 admin.password=ENC(RJJ37UPsM2CstIQPohskn7Yn05gtrIK0) At the dependencies section we add the library of jasypt. The plugin should run during the validate phase. Bernhard Mähr @ OPITZ-CONSULTING published at http://thecattlecrew.wordpress.com/ Click to share on Facebook (O…

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OSB: Configurable basic authentication

Basic authentication is still a very common approach for securing web services. It is widely supported and can be tested with a browser. If used over a HTTPS connection also the credentials are encrypted. To use basic authentication the usual way with OSB it is necessary to select ‘Basic’ at the authentication section and a service account for the business service: For the service account the OSB supports three settings: Pass Through: The credent…

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Finding differences in two Open-Office-Writer documents

…unction of XML Tools to get the XML files formatted. Now it is possible to compare the two files with tool for comparing text files and you will see the real text changes. Bernhard Mähr @ OPITZ-CONSULTING published at http://thecattlecrew.wordpress.com/ Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Cl…

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OSB: Deleting corrupt projects

…e influences to other projects and lead to crashes on them. Before doing a complete reinstallation of the OSB I wanted to try to fix this deadlock. On the Weblogic  I found some mysterious deployed EAR files, but stopping and undeploying them didn’t have an effect. After some searching I finally found the folder /oracle/fmwhome/user_projects/domains/dev_soasuite/osb/config/core. Inside the folder there where a some folders named like the deployed…

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OSB: Using Tuxedo transport with eclipse development environment

…rnhard Mähr @ OPITZ-CONSULTING published at http://thecattlecrew.wordpress.com/ Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) More Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Ope…

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