Security, cache and more
Windy and rainy Saturday, as usual in Dublin. Good time to review those links which piled up during the week, before doing your daily chores. And I found some interesting ones I would like to share:
- Guice and Spring collaboration: old news, but Guice and Spring have defined a common set of annotations for Dependency Injection, wishfully this will help to standardize this field as, IMHO, one of the main issues with Java is how many frameworks and libraries we have that do the same task in such different ways.
- Also, Guice released version 2 of its framework, with the usual array of novelties. Good to see how quick this framework evolves.
- Moving to another library, I got this article about Hibernate Caching and some issues than can arise with its query and L2 caches. It provides nice solutions, if you ever have memory issues this may help you.
- Ever had to create a login system? Maybe you should read these two articles about rainbow tables and storing passwords. I have to acknowledge I did not thought it was such a big issue. I should go back to 1975? :P
- If the previous articles arose your curiosity, you may want to test how strong is your password, which you can do here. Good luck, and follow the hints to create your new one.
- And also related to passwords, I found Clickpass, a simple way to have a starting huge userbase for your application, using their existing accounts on services like Facebook, Google or OpenID (or some others). After reading the previous articles, is probably the best option for your application.
- As a bonus link, the web of IASA, a young foundation aiming to create a certification program for software Architects, which is publishing some interesting content in its web.
