Openshift

More than 18 months ago I’ve posted my mock exam for Oracle Certified Expert Web Component Developer certification. Until now it’s quite popular and useful (deducting from the comments) for many of you. What I dislike about this exam is that it’s published as a plain WordPress post and it’s rather awful to edit it and it’s not so easy to read as well. So, that’s the aim of my small side project: to create a basic platform for presenting exam questions and their answers....

By default few of the security features are turned off in OpenShift JBoss 7.1 cartridge. If you want to use the Java EE security features first you need to define your security roles and constraints in your deployment descriptor, e.g. web.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app> // ... <security-role> <role-name>admin</role-name> </security-role> <login-config> <auth-method>FORM</auth-method> <form-login-config> <form-login-page>/admin/login.xhtml</form-login-page> <form-error-page>/admin/login.xhtml?error=1</form-error-page> </form-login-config> </login-config> <security-constraint> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>Modify questions section</web-resource-name> <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern> </web-resource-collection> <auth-constraint> <role-name>admin</role-name> </auth-constraint> </security-constraint> </web-app> (I’ve omitted the logging form source code as it’s not the main point here....