Setting Up Keystores for a Client and a Service

There were a lot of queries on setting up keystores when using Apache WSS4J/Rampart with Axis1.x and Axis2. This is a step-by-step how to guide that will help one setup the keystores properly.

Got my flickr pro account !!!

I upgraded my flickr account to a pro account today ... it seems like a pretty good deal ...
The pro account allows unlimited photo sets, unlimited storage and a whopping 20 GB monthly upload limit.

Now I can use this as my pic backup :-)

ApacheCon Asia in Colombo, Sri Lanka in August!

ApacheCon Asia is the first ever Asian offering of the popular ApacheCon Conference of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). ApacheCon Asia provides an excellent opportunity to experience first-hand what ASF technologies and development communities can do for you and your enterprise.

The program consists of two technical tracks in the main conference and a large number of tutorials. In addition a "hackathon" will be held the day before the conference where attendees can interact with various Apache project developers and learn and contribute!

Priced at a very affordable level, the conference will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from August 14th to 17th at the Trans Asia Hotel.

See http://www.asia.apachecon.com/ for further details. On-line registration will open shortly.

Register by Friday, August 4th and receive a 10% early bird discount!

Interested in sponsoring? See:
http://asia.apachecon.com/conference/sponsor/

The ApacheCon Asia Organizing Team.

Understanding Web Services Policy

This is a very good paper on WS-Policy by Asir and Dan. Nice work guys !

Hello World with Apache Axis2

Here's a simple tutorial of 6 steps to create an Axis2 service and a client to interact with it.

ApacheCon EU 2006 - Secure Web Services with Apache Axis2 and Apache WSS4J

Want to find out how to secure Apache Axis2? Apache Rampart is the
ideal module for the job !!!

If you are anywhere near Ireland on the 26th of June or really want
to know how it all works, come on over to ApacheCon EU 2006 where I
will be presenting a tutorial on "Secure Web Services with Apache
Axis2 and Apache WSS4J". see here for details.

Early bird registration is now open till the 6th of June. So hurry and
register now!

Apache Rampart 1.0 Released

We are happy to announce the 1.0 release of Apache Rampart.

Apache Rampart is the Apache Axis2 module that implements the WS-Security
specification based on Apache WSS4J 1.5.0 and the Apache AXIOM-DOOM
implementation.

In addition to the WS-Security features listed in the WSS4J web site

rampart provides:

* Ability to MTOM optimize parts of the message
* Convenient and intuitive configurations
* Mechanism to dynamically configure the module
* Experimental WS-SecurityPolicy support

This module was successfully tested for interoparability with other
WS-Security implementations.

You can download the rampart-1.0.mar from:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi/ws/axis2/modules/rampart/1_0/

For documentation on configuration please refer

http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/rampart/1_0/security-module.html

Let "rampart" secure your messages !!!

Apache Rampart Team

Apache WSS4J 1.5.0 Released

We released WSS4J 1.5.0 today. Release note:

The WSS4J team is happy to announce the 1.5.0 release of
Apache WSS4J, the Web service security implementation.

You can download the releases from:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/wss4j/1_5_0

The distributions to the mirror(s) sites will be available in the next
few days.

Apart from the binary and source distributions, We have an additional
ZIP file that contains other required JAR files to install and run WSS4J.

Please refer to the *readme.* files in the distribution for
further information regarding implemented features, additional
information, links to the Wiki pages, etc.

Note that major refactoring from the 1.1.0 to 1.5.0 is mentioned in
the wiki :
http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/WsFx/refactor

More information about WSS4J and related projects is available
on the WSS4J homepage:

http://ws.apache.org/wss4j

We hope you have fun with this new WSS4J :-)

The WSS4J team

01:02:03 04/05/06

I just got this from one of my friends :

Just in case you wanted to know this - that tomorrow it will be, at two
minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will
show
01:02:03 04/05/06.


That won't ever happen again in our lifetime.

In fact it will be approx. 400 generations before it happens again.

:-)

UsernameToken with JavaScript

This is a simple sample that demonstrates a wsse:Usernametoken with plain text password and password digest.

SHA-1 function was imported from here and some util functions were imported form here.

Search Apache axis-dev mail archives using firefox search box

Inspired by this post in the LK LUG mailing list, I came up with a Mozilla Search Plugin to search Apache Axis-dev mailing list archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/.

This will add 'Axis-dev' into the list of available search engines in the Mozilla Firefox search box. Microft search plugin code can be found here

New found Love !!!

This Tuesday (11th October) I got my very first car.

It's a two door Nissan FB14 Lucino with a 1500 CC Engine and it has a nice rear spoiler as well. :D

Here are some images of the car.





I drove to work today (on my own for the first time !!!) and it was a very nice ride.

I was able to find the spec at alljapanesecars.com

Password Safe

A nice way to manage passwords...
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net

Search history

www.google.com/searchhistory
Now I can remeber the stuff I searched for ...

Gmail invitation spooler

http://isnoop.net/gmail/

Opensource Antivirus Software For Windows

ClamWin
This is sourceforge's February 2005 project of the month !
https://sourceforge.net/projects/clamwin/

Google Scholar

This is another really useful tool by google. Check it
out.
http://scholar.google.com

www.ruchith.org

Just created my first public domain...
www.ruchith.org

Right now I'm only forwarding it to my blog. I might consider buying some web space later ... :D

So I guess I'll start blogging more often now :-)

Landed in Tromsø

I landed in Tromsø an island in the north of Norway on the 16th September 10:00. This is the first time that I' travelling out of my country - Sri Lanka. The first thing I noticed here is that everything is so expensive :( but I should be able to live comfortably since my father is taking care of my finances until I get my paycheck. :D

Will post a lot more in the comming days.