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Despite SSL being widely used, Java mutual SSL authentication (also referred to as 2-way SSL authentication or certificate based authentication) is a fairly simple implementation when understanding the key concepts of how mutual SSL authentication works. Today I noticed that...
With the release of Java SE 7 the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension was introduced as a default in the JSSE client. This enables TLS clients to connect to virtual servers (SNI is explained in RFC 4366 and I am not going...
Sun was clever enough to probably use a String-compare instead of a number-check to validate if the OS X version is greater than 10.1 and as such a JDK 1.7 install fails on OS X 10.10. There is no fix/patch from...
If creating blazing fast mobile HTML5 apps with Sencha Touch has been your day to day task for some time and you are interested in working for coolest eCommerce internet company in South Africa (located in Bryanston), then have a...
Perhaps the end of Java as we know it? James posted the following at his new blog: “…Yes, indeed, the rumors are true: I resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd). I apologize to everyone in St Petersburg who...
If you installed Snow Leopard and you are using the Android SDK, you will find that DDMS is broken due to Snow Leopard now including the 64-bit Java version and the Android SDK currently does not support a 64-bit SWT...
Reflection gives your code access to internal information for classes loaded into the JVM and allows you to write code that works with classes selected during execution, not in the source code. This makes reflection a great tool for building...
Working with exceptions in Java has become among developers a common task. Most of the time, however, the concept of exceptions is misunderstood. An exception-condition prevents the continuation of a method or the scope that your are in. In some...
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