Advanced password policy is one of the most coveted features an LDAP server has to offer. Yet, dealing with it programmatically is not as straightforward as one could imagine. The purpose of this post is to provide a simple guideline of how to manage a custom password policy on the OpenLDAP server via Spring. Originally,…
Spring and LDAP. Should not really be a problem, right? Considering a vast amount of resources and examples. Well, in my experience things do not always go that smoothly. I have been struggling enough with bits and pieces to set up yet another “sample” application. Just to have a quick reference of common LDAP features…..
Here is a list of hot keys I frequently use in Netbeans and their equivalents in IntelliJ and Eclipse. All of them are customizable, what follows are default settings. Function Netbeans IntelliJ Eclipse Debug File Ctrl + Shift + F5 Alt + Shift + F9 Alt + Shift + D Find in Projects Ctrl +…
When it comes to transactions, the Spring manual suggests that marking your classes as @Transactional and enabling annotation-driven configuration is somewhat insufficient. When you keep reading it though, you pick up many interesting details but won’t get much further in terms of best practices. At the end of the day, you stick to the declarative…
To be honest, the Data Transfer Object pattern is not my favourite one. I like to keep my code DRY and the idea of replicating parts of the domain model does not appeal to me. However, exposing entities directly to clients can be tricky, mostly due to their relational nature. Lazily loaded relationships and lengthy…
Would you agree that loading only as little data as needed, a.k.a lazy loading, is a good practice? You probably would. To prevent lengthy object graphs be loaded into memory Hibernate uses lazy loading by default. The downside is that sooner or later you are destined to see something like this: org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: could not…