Core Security Patterns: Best Practices and Strategies for J2EE(TM), Web Services, and Identity Management (Core Series)

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Best Java Security Book for J2EE and Web Services........2007-09-23

This is a great book - by far the best security design book for Java and J2EE (including Java SE 6 and Java EE 5) I have read to date. When I first heard about my coworkers talking about this book, I thought "oh great, another J2EE book!" Much to my surprise, this book is not just a how-to security API or patterns recipe book but much more than that - I see it as a collection of valuable suggestions and examples on how to choose security mechanisms and use them in J2EE applications and web services. Moreover, it tells you what the bestpractices, pitfalls and tradeoffs are for each design pattern option you take. Particularly, You will find this book as an ideal companion for CORE J2EE PATTERNS - Deepak Alur et al, which is my favorite for designing J2EE applications.

This book is as close to size of a pillow and I do understand why the authors gave only code snippets for selected examples instead of full implementation. The case study is just right, it discusses the scenario and how to incorporate the patterns right in to the application design..which is just right for a Java developer who is involved with Java enterprise applications and web services. The best practices and security checklist detailed in this book - helps a lot during development and when you want to deploy a J2EE application/web service in production.

Having said that, I prefer this book as a must-have for any serious Java developer/designer/architect who wants to build Security from understanding basics of WHAT and know WHY you should architect your J2EE system in a particular way using best practices (a long list) and not just HOW. Ultimately you will find this book as an onestop reference for building security in J2EE applications and web services.

Java security made easy. Excellent title worth investing on........2007-09-18

If you ever want to understand about security and its role in the development of J2EE enterprise-level applications, then you should consider buying this book from your local bookstore.

The authors have done an excellent job in explaining the basics of security as it applies to the most common business practices, as well as deliver intricate details on the inner workings of the Java platform security architecture. Even though this book covers in its majority Java technologies, you don't have to be a Java developer or architect to appreciate it.

The book is divided in 7 major parts:

Part 1: Introduction and Basics of Security

Part 2: Java Security Architecture and Technologies

Part 3: Web Services Security and Identity Management

Part 4: Security Design Methodology, Patterns, and Reality Checks

Part 5: Design Strategies and Best Practices

Part 6: Putting it all together

Part 7: Personal Identification using Smart Cards and Biometrics

Parts 1-5 provide reams of detail about the fundamentals of security, the J2EE security architecture, and the technologies used to enable Web services security. In addition, there is a comprehensive explanation of patterns and practices for J2EE developers, as well as design strategies and best practices for securing J2EE Web components and web-based applications.

Web developers might want to pay special attention to Part 3 of the book because it gives an insight on fortifying Web services, authenticating and authorizing end users, and applying the latest cryptographic techniques. XML is described in detail as the encoding for messages between parties using a Web Service.

Note that this book does not explain the specific JAVA APIs needed for basic J2EE application development. Twenty-three proven security architectural patterns are discussed and presented through several realistic scenarios, covering architecture and implementation and presenting detailed sample code.

Part 6 of the book describes how to use this newly acquired knowledge in the implementation of real-world security scenarios.

Finally, we found the last part of this book as the most intriguing. It provides an in-depth coverage on Personal Identification using Smart Cards and Biometrics, their role in physical and logical access control, and the different technologies used in their implementation. Best practices and common pitfalls that might arise when implementing security using smart cards and biometrics are also discussed.

Overall we believe this is excellent book for the security enthusiast who wants to build robust end-to-end security into J2EE enterprise applications.

Excellenet book for Java Security architects.......2007-07-22

Like any Sun core book, this "reference" manual is cut above the rest. Personally I use it more as a reference manual helping me to understand and design security requirements for a project.

The reference book of the java security.......2007-07-19

A fantastic book that each java developer should have. Today, the security is becoming a real requirement of each java based enterprise application, and this book, in my opinion, represents the best reference. It is a very exhaustive and complete book for both beginner and advanced levels.

I don't think this is an awesome book.......2007-05-09

I am amazed by the 5 star ratings everybody has given this book! And I have implemented several enterprise level security implementations/integrations supporting hundres of thousands of users.

In my opinion, this book is really feeding the buzzwords frenzy of security domain. It certainly "talks the talk", but can it "walk the talk"?

I can think of numerous glaring examples where the book falls short. To name a few:
- Smart Cards (lots of power point and management level sales fluff here)
- JAAS (I have seen it being described much better in fewer words)
- SAML (huh?)

I think the book does a below average job of providing practical information. Even the content does not flow very smoothly and coherently.

Core Security Patterns: Best Practices and Strategies for J2EE(TM), Web Services, and Identity Management

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Core Security Patterns: Best Practices and Strategies for J2EE(TM), Web Services, and Identity Management
Christopher, Nagappan, Ramesh, Lai, Ray Steel
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Ptr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OIAOSG

Book Description

The tradition of aerial photography arose from a keen nineteenth-century desire to see "the world in motion." Starting with Nadar's photographic balloon trips, airborne experimentation with landscapes and cityscapes continued through great photographers from Steichen to Burkhardt.

With Alex MacLean, we enter a different world. For thirty years, this committed photographer has portrayed the history and evolution of the American land, from great desert spaces to agricultural patterns to city grids. A trained architect who is closely involved in landscape heritage protection issues, MacLean has set out to create a series of pictures that show and explain the universal history of town and countryside. What he has to say may be invigorating or alarming, but it always raises the issue of the landscape's future.

This new collection of exemplary photographs taken across the American landscape reflects MacLean's passionate interest in the effects of time, geological movements, shifting landscapes, redeployment, pollution, urban sprawl, and the overlapping of surfaces and activities. More than 400 color photographs reveal in a unique way the physical splendor of America: both the beauty of the ongoing inhabiting of the land and the potential for modern planning to create spectacular environments.

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Amazing! Great perspective for a conservationist........2004-07-15

Most of us who do not fly very often are mesmerized by the aerial views we get out of the tiny portal windows in commercial airliners. "Designs on Land" gives the reader those views without the neck-craning or the other discomforts of flying.

This book was intended mainly as a photographic recording of the aesthetics and unintentional beauty/coherence of the changes and structures which mankind has brought to pass on this continent. However, I am not a student of landscape architecture or photography. As someone who is conservation-oriented, I found Maclean's photos to be literally jaw-dropping. He is immensely effective at showing the overpowering impact that our species has had on the land.

Even for those who have no interest in landscapes, design, or the environment this book is still a "can't-put-it-down" coffee table book.

I give my highest recommendation for anyone and everyone.

An upbeat look at down........2003-08-10

This the third book I have bought of Alex MacLean's stunning aerial photographs of the American landscape. The other two, `Look at the Land' (1993) and `Across the American Landscape' (1996) were lovely to look at but this latest book with 430 photos is excellent.

MacLean captures the changing American scene beautifully and in pin sharp detail. Unfortunately, none of the photos are dated and many of them appeared in both his earlier books so some of them could be ten years old. The various chapters cover America from above though the concentration is on the man-made environment, including such delights as parking, city grid, pollution, sprawl, abandonment and more. These might seem dreary objects to photograph but MacLean can make a half-full parking lot look exciting and in many cases, when seen from above, so many of these images have a definite abstract art look about them. The agriculture photos, of huge fields stretching into the horizon, must be seen to be believed.

Comprehensive though the coverage is there is one area of the landscape MacLean has not been able to cover, the huge amount of land controlled by the military. Some their activities would make fascinating photos. You might get the impression looking through the pages that open land in the US is fast disappearing but the reality is that the hand of man affects less than ten percent of the nation, the remainder is just open country.

Get this fascinating book if you want to see what the American landscape looks like from a view that most of us will never normally see.

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A Hugely Successful Synthesis.......2003-06-23

Alex S. MacLean is an architectural geologist with an impressionist's eye for composition and light. He is a pilot and a gifted photographer as well. The consistently fascinating imagery he has has created by fusing all these talents into a rigorous and aesthetically gorgeous body of work is on splendid display within the pages of Designs On The Land which ably demonstrates how uniquely important an aerial vertex is to a complete understanding of human interaction with the planet Earth. I recently drove thousands of miles through the high desert southwest and had a marvelous opportunity to appreciate that landscape from a mostly horizontal vertex. What a revelation to see the same tableaux from above! So much that is only hinted at at ground level reveals itself completely from above. The central thesis of Designs On The Land is that human transformation of the environment is among the most revealing indicators of man's developmental and evolutionary status. By extension, aerial views of the results of man's activities on the land provide a powerful tool for interpreting and understanding this interaction. As with any authentic synthesis, Designs On The Land functions on many levels simultaneously. Most significantly, the images presented in this critically important portfolio are simply beautiful and moving; both compositionally and as sophisticated studies in shadow, light and color. But aside from the captivating imagery, this volume contains a wealth of data that provide for informed consideration of land use protocols, environmental degradation and pollution, and the shifting utilization of land over time, to name but a few of topics taken up here. To quote from the introduction by James Corner, "What one sees from the air, then, are not merely attractive patterns and forms but great metabolic scaffoldings of material transformation, transmission, production and consumption. The country is an enormous working quarry, an operational network of exchange and mobility. To appreciate the essential character of the American landscape, it is first necessary to understand how its appearance is less an evolving expression than it is an activating agent of American ways of life and other material practices...The implicit subjectivity in the content of Alex MacLean's photographs reveals not only the strange working beauty of this busy, ongoing inhabiting of America, but also its potential for modern design and planning to create even more spectacular environments-this time for on the ground reception and effect as well as from the air."

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Half Lolita, half Carrie

Nothing wrong with Zero Girl

Kieth back at it again.

Zero Girl
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Manufacturer: Wildstorm
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Half Lolita, half Carrie.......2006-07-15

The pieces are familiar: a high school girl dealing with the ultimate family dysfunction, high school bullies, and high school crushes. The crush-ee, in this case, is a high school guidance counselor achingly aware that Amy Smootster isn't a little girl any more - a fact that Amy is equally aware of, and brings clearly to his attention. But she has real problems at home, such as it is, the kind that a counselor is supposed to involve himself in.

But there's something very special about Amy, more than the fact that wet puddles form under her shoes when embarassment becomes its worst (which it does often). And the high school bullies, even the thugs in that dark alley have something even darker behind them ...

It's more complex than Emily the Strange, and more for teens than for Emily's `tweens. The artwork is good, sometimes angular, and it does better with expression and narration than literal representation. Maybe not for everyone, but I'm coming back for more.

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Nothing wrong with Zero Girl.......2002-03-13

"Zero Girl" is a great, quirky series. Sam Keith is a man with insight into the weird, with an emphasis on the private worlds of outcast girls.

The story of "Zero Girl" is a dream fantasy, where Circles are locked in a war with Squares. Our hero is at the center of this war. Circles protect her. Squares attack her. Her feet get wet. Somewhere locked inside this war are half-faded memories trying to get out.

An off kilter romance appears in the form of a high school girl in love with her school councilor. This is not a bad thing, in context of the story.

The art, of course, is Sam Keith's usual brand of goodness. He takes all of these strange story elements and welds them into a cohesive story by the force of his art.

And, as a topper, "Zero Girl" has an introduction by Alan Moore praising it. If you don't take my word for it, take Alan's. "Zero Girl" is great comics.

Kieth back at it again........2002-01-10

Anyone at all familiar with Sam Kieth's previous work (The Maxx, or his Marvel work) already knows what they're getting into when they pick this up. For the uninitiated, here's what you'll find:
1) a unique story...Kieth never tells a "standard" tale, and Zero Girl is certainly no exception. Circles good, squares bad. Foot sweat. Trust me, it all makes sense.
2) Great art. Any excuse to view Kieth art is worth the price. His characters look like no one else's. His style cannot be duplicated easily, and those that try fail horribly. Think Frazetta on acid for a general idea.
Zero Girl is a good read and was hailed as one of the best of 2001 by many in the industry. There's a reason. READ IT!

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She's still getting a round
Zero Girl Rocks!!!!

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She's still getting a round.......2006-07-17

This takes place fiften years after Zero Girl One . Tim has a daughter now, Nikki, about the same age as when he first met Amy. She's also about as messed up as Amy was, and that's saying some. Like then-Amy, Nikki has a lot of questions about her emerging sexuality, but they're very different questions than Amy's ever were. Her friend Rat (as if Nikki could have real friends) probably has the answers, but Nikki's not asking her.

It turns out that Nikki is pretty special, too, as special as Amy ever was. Somehow, Amy reappears, and acts as the Nikki's counselor, or big sister, or guardian angel, or some such. That guard thing helps when Nikki's deceased mother shows up. I mean, most teeangers have trouble with their parents but this relationship really needs work - she wants to connect with her daughter, but she's just such a square.

The first Zero Girl had visual style, novelty, and flair. Although the visual style is a good as ever and the sttitude is there, the flair somehow flamed out.

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Zero Girl Rocks!!!!.......2004-09-21

I've been a big Sam Kieth fan ever since I saw The Maxx on MTV in high school. In fact, that animated series on MTV turned me onto the world of comics. And I'm glad because there is some surreal and twisted stuff out there. Zero Girl is one of them. If you are a fan of Kieth pick this one up. You won't be disappointed. Buy it now!

FANTASTIC - Volume 5, number 3 - June 1956: Conception Zero; Dream Girl; All Good Men; Everybody's Watching You; Round Trip

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Release Date: 2006-10-05

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Kas fights to conceal her dangerous secret.

Kas has everything a teenager could possibly want. Away from home for the first time, and attending a prestigious art school, she makes friends with a model and aspiring actress, Marin, and meets Jacob, a handsome young musician. Her future is bright and promising. But Kas is hiding a secret_a secret so dangerous that it threatens to destroy not only her friendships, but also her own future.

Diane Tullson has written a powerful, coming-of-age novel about eating disorders, and of the vulnerable teenager who fights to conceal her secret from her friends. Zero is a realistic portrayal of a very subtle disease that challenges readers to figure out just when they should have recognized thesymptoms of anorexia and bulimia.

The novel includes an afterword that outlines the warning signs of anorexia and bulimia, as well as the common misconceptions about the victims of eating disorders.

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