Having seen a more than a few IBM Content Navigator / Case Manager customization’s, i noticed almost every solution i encountered has responsiveness problems. Now, while it might be the result of the team composition (focus on backend development), i personally think it’s due to DoJo, lacking a nice layout […]

A few days ago i decided to pick up work on a simple web-game i once tried to created when i was 15 (see related: Generating isometric tiles and slopes). And while working on it i decided the architecture should be able support multiple workers performing on a single database. As […]

Case Manager developers are expected to be multi disciplinary. e.g. they’re expected to be experienced ECM consultants, guru in solution design, expert in Filenet P8 configuration/development, and both Java EE as wel as Web expert. The thing is, most of the developers only excel in one, and lack expert knowledge of […]

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 […]