What follows is an article, "Contribution Tips", from the updated Community page on the TomEE website initially penned by David Blevins and improved by the Community, which explains how to get started contributing to Apache TomEE. We've been fortunate enough to have had several people join the project since the "The Best Thing I Ever Did Was Open Source" and "TomEE for the Holidays" posts were published.. I cannot think of a better resource to get folks started than the article re-published below. Regardless of what project you are working on it is excellent advice. Subscribe to the developer mailing…
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If I were to pick a month to brand "Open Source Month", it would be December. I could list personal reasons for it, such as December 1999 was the first month I ever contributed to Open Source. That happens to be the same month I married Amelia and have often joked, "I've been married to them both ever since." The real reason is December is the month open source heroes are born. December is Your Time to Shine I've noticed a pattern of December being a very prolific month for open source contribution. In December 2006 the OpenEJB 3 codebase…
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The goal of this article is to give you an overview of the MicroProfile Rest Client (aka Rest Client), how it works and the advantages you can obtain when utilizing it to implement a Java REST client. When we talk about microservices, we discuss many different architecture topics, but sometimes we forget the importance of a good client API. The Rest Client is a Java REST client based in JAX-RS 2.0, that uses its current features, but also provides a different way of interacting with the microservices. The 1.0 version of Rest Client was first introduced in MicroProfile version 1.3…
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When I look back on the 25 years since I graduated and entered the market as a professional software engineer, I see a tapestry of accomplishments, failures, joy, frustration, and finally peace. One accomplishment, in particular, the Co-Founding of OpenEJB with David Blevins, stands at the top of that list. I started out in Open Source working with Mark Flury on EJB-OSS in 1999, which was later renamed JBoss. Shortly after that experience, I was hired by a company to develop an entirely new Open Source EJB Container system, OpenEJB, which later became an official Apache project. The opportunity to…
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Many applications running on TomEE interact with other services, such as databases or 3rd party REST APIs. As an administrator, we need to be able to tell the application how to connect to these systems. TomEE provides a couple of different strategies for configuration and in this article, we’ll explore the different packaging and deployments. Separating configuration from your application This is probably the most common way of working with TomEE. Any resources that are used in the application are defined in the application server and mapped to a unique name in a JNDI directory. To improve the portability of…
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The Apache TomEE community has announced the release of TomEE 8.0 - Milestone 1 (M1) – a major step forward for TomEE. Tomitribe and TomEE TomEE is a project that members of Tomitribe have been working on and supporting for years and our efforts to release TomEE 8.0 was significant. Tomitribe is proud to contribute to the project. A special thanks to all the other committers for their hard work as well! Java EE 8 This is the first TomEE release that provides support for Java EE 8 and Jakarta EE, where two new specs were introduced: JSON-B, a well-needed…
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In a previous article, WebSocket and Lock it! we showed how to use basic authentication on websocket calls to an application deployed on TomEE. In this article, we explain how to add SSL/TLS security to the connection between the client and the application server. To demonstrate this, we've created a new wss-secured-websocket project. This work is valid both for Secure Websocket (WSS) and HTTPS. Adding transport layer security is important in order to protect the data exchange. Payloads and headers are sent in clear text when using simple HTTP. This is critical when considering the authentication header. As you can…
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This is the final of a series of 3 articles dedicated to the MicroProfile Fault Tolerance. We started by introducing and giving an overview of the specification in “MicroProfile Fault Tolerance, Take 2”. Next, we explained the different annotations and their options in “MicroProfile Fault Tolerance Annotations”. Now we take a look at practical MicroProfile Fault Tolerance examples using TomEE 7.1. This version of TomEE is compliant with MicroProfile v1.2 and includes the Geronimo Safegard library implementing the Fault Tolerance v1.0 spec. The MicroProfile Samples project We’ll be using the microprofile-samples project created by Roberto Cortez and which is available on…
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Last week we published the post, "MicroProfile JWT" by @JLouisMonteiro that covers the basics, standards, pros, and cons involved in implementing stateless security with Microprofile JWT. In this post, we are going to deep dive into JWT role-based access control on Apache TomEE. Since the release of TomEE 7.1, we now have a JWT specification implementation defined using Microprofile version 1.2. The specification is available in the official release. Marking a JAX-RS Application as Requiring MP-JWT RBAC For this, you need to add the annotation @LoginConfig to your existing javax.ws.rs.core.Application subclass. The purpose of the @LoginConfig is to annotate the…
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The Apache TomEE community has announced the release of TomEE 7.1 - a major step forward for TomEE. For more details on the changes please look into the release notes. For tips on upgrading, see this blog post by @jongallimore from earlier this week. Tomitribe and TomEE TomEE is a project that members of Tomitribe have been working on and supporting for years and our efforts to release TomEE 7.1 was significant. Tomitribe is proud to contribute to the project. A special thanks to all the other committers for their hard work as well! Java 8 Update Prior to TomEE 7.1 you…
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