Novice programmers rarely see the value in externalized configuration. It's tedious and doesn't result in an immediate payoff. That means this task is often overlooked or done poorly, if at all. For ...

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While the Struts framework has been widely deployed, there’s no doubt that its original version held room for improvement. The newly released Struts 2.0 carries much of the power of its predecessor ...

This paper explains how to use the Java Authentication and Authorization API (JAAS). It plugs JAAS into the Struts framework. Though this paper focuses on Struts, and in particular the example ...