After finding out that it’s a real bad idea to store certain information in ICN plugins, i started looking for alternatives. Eventually i came up with the idea to create a new ICN plugin to be able to manage a central configuration repository that is secure and has support for multi […]

I always strive to publish at least one article a month; this month however will be skipped due to preparations for my upcoming holiday. As always i tend to go to places where i’m totally disconnected. E.g. my last holiday’s were in the (middle of the) Amazon rain forest, the […]

From my experience as a P8 engineer i know many are actually struggling with this. So in this post i’ll share a textbook example on how to  re-use your BPF/ICN/ICM authentication in your own custom Java EE application. Download the complete sample project here The following project assumes the use […]

For those creating IBM Content Navigator plugins, please be advised not to store any tokens, passwords or API keys in the plugin configuration, as it will be accessible to all authenticated users. Although you would expect the ICN admin-api to be limited to admin-users, the following snippet works for everyone 🙂 […]

Just a quick write as i encounter a lot of web applications where the front-end is using UTF-8 encoding to post values to the backend, while the backend, is interpreting them with different (java default iso-8859-1). Now since Servlet 2.3, there is the Request.setCharacterEncoding(), but unfortunately this doesn’t work if […]

Note to self: Don’t forget to annotate complex fiels with the @Mutable annotation.   It might sound noobish, but i’ve just spend the last 2 hours trying to find out why my jpa/eclilpse link entity wasn ’t updating my ‘complex’ (hashmap) field. At first, i figured it had something to do […]

I’ve been creating web-app’s for ages. And what’s been annoying me for quite a while, is that – due to the client/server separation – i end up duplicating a lot of client-side validation-logic on the server-side. Now, as for solutions to this counter-intuitive phenomonem, i’ve encountered and implemented all of the […]

Although i really like the IBM Content Navigator & Case Manager suites, its actually embarrassing that they lack a decent – out of the box – printing mechanism. For some reason they’re using a java applet to print jpg rendered documents to a printer, that in turn produce almost unreadable […]

A few weeks ago i decided  to sort out the old harddrives that i’d been storing in my garage for a few years now. Some of them were at least 15 years old, and i was amazed that only one lost functionality. Anyway, while digging through the data (preserving old photos, code and […]

Update: 01-09-2016: This jar is a little out of date as newer navigator builds require a little more for authentication..  Will post an update soon. Last month i shared a tool that i’ve been using to automatically update code modules & event actions using the IBM Filenet Content Engine api. This […]