Getting Maven to work from behind a firewall

Maven needs to access the Internet to download a number of things including POM files and dependent JAR files that are not held in your local repository. If you are trying to do this from behind a corportate firewall then you’ll need to configure Maven to work around it or you’ll get a load of [...]

Secure single sign on (SSO) for JForum

I recently developed a web application that used the excellent open source project JForum for its forum pages. The one thing that was missing from JForum though was a secure SSO module. In this article I’ll explain why the SSO solution bundled with JForum was not secure enough for our purposes and I’ll show you how [...]