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Archive for November, 2004

Progress on the JAAS Book

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

We’re winding up the first draft of the first 1/3 of the JAAS book. There’ll be plenty of editing and rewriting, for sure, but at least we have the raw-material to play around with now.
The next section is planned to be about using/integrating JAAS with other systems: LoginModules for Windows, Unix, etc.; hooking JAAS up […]

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Re: OmniGraffle for Code Diagramming

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

Probably thanks to a link from Erik’s Linkblog, several people responded to
yesterday’s post about using OmniGraffle for UML (or, as it’s properly, but weirdly put…”the UML”):

Paul Brown emailed me with a link to his post on the topic.
Neillzero/Mr. Anonymous pointed me to Elliotte Rusty Harold’s post about finding a simple UML tool. If you, […]

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OmniGraffle for Code Diagramming

Monday, November 29th, 2004

I’ve started doing diagrams for the JAAS book. My primary computer is a PowerBook, which came with OmniGraffle, so I started using that for UML diagrams. I then downloaded a trial of OmniGraffle Pro, which has better UML stencils and sorts of other wing-dings.
So far, I like it. It’s not as clean as Together, but […]

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Cannibalizing Agents vs. The Heavies on Top

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

Though he’s talking about the American intelligence community, Thomas Barnett sum up a problem all large, action/producing oriented companies have very well:

It was interesting to talk with my hosts after the brief, because the same reform-minded elements who invited me today invite me everywhere else I go in the national security community. As with all […]

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ProtectionDomains

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Here’s a little tip for you: don’t use ProtectionDomain’s toString() while in a Policy. There’s security checks that go in toString() there, so you’ll get stuck in a recursion if you’re not careful. And, as one of my rules of thumb goes, “be careful to avoid doing things where you have to be careful.”
That might […]

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