Java EE: Logging User Interaction the Aspect-Oriented Way using Interceptors

Mon, 26 May 2014 00:00:00 +0200

Using dependency injection and aspect-oriented mechanisms like interceptors allow us to separate cross-cutting-concerns in our Java enterprise application, to control global aspects of our application and to avoid boilerplate code.

In the following short tutorial we’re going to create an aspect-oriented logger to protocol the initiating user, class and method called and the parameters passed to the method and finally we’re adding this interceptor to a sample RESTful web-service by adding a simple annotation.

Maven Tomcat Plugin: Adding Authentication to an Embedded Tomcat

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0200

The Tomcat Maven Plugin not only allows us to deploy our mavenized application to an existing Tomcat server but also to run our web application with an embedded instance from our project’s directory. Recently I needed to add basic authentication to such an instance and wanted to share the steps necessary here

Prerequisites

We just need Maven and a JDK …

Project Setup

I am using the webapp archetype here
We’re adding the following configuration for the Tomcat plugin to your pom.xml – my final descriptor is this one

pom.xml

Basic-Auth on Micha Kops' Tech Notes

Java EE: Logging User Interaction the Aspect-Oriented Way using Interceptors

Maven Tomcat Plugin: Adding Authentication to an Embedded Tomcat

Prerequisites

Project Setup