A fairly common question that I get from time to time is how to go about using JDK specific classes inside an OSGi environment. To some degree, this is equivalent to getting access to the bootstrapping classpath from OSGi, without bundling it. To express package dependencies, bundles use the OSGi directive inside their manifests – Read more…

Imagine you are in the secured session (you are logged on and are authorized to access a particular resource), but your security infrastructure team has updated your rights and privileges. Perhaps you were given more rights and privileges or perhaps your rights were completely revoked. . . The problem is that your secured session is Read more…

This is the first part of what I hope will become a multipart series of small posts showing practical examples around Spring Security customization. The requirements for these customizations are not imaginary and all came from the field. . . Assume you have the following requirement. You have a list of roles where each role Read more…