Just received my review copy of the new XPages book on the extensibility library (XPages Extension Library: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Next Generation of XPages Components). Should be an interesting read - it involves plugins :)

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Authentication vs. Authorization Wed, May 8th 2013 7:39a Mikkel Heisterberg When ever I talk to customers and partners about single-sign-on (SSO) and the concepts of "authentication" I'm quite often baffled by the level of misunderstanding, misconception and lack of knowledge about just how "authentication" works. Now the reason I put "authentication" is quotes is that when we talk about authentication it's really not just authentication we're talking about. When we talk about confirming the identity of a user and confirming that the user is allowed to access a [read] Keywords: acl domino ibm notes application database password server websphere

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Just arrived - thank you IBM Wed, May 8th 2013 6:10a Mikkel Heisterberg [read] Keywords: ibm

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Websphere Application Server WIM LDAP adapter log trace Thu, May 2nd 2013 12:50a Mikkel Heisterberg When debugging LDAP login issues for Websphere Application Server (WAS) you're actually debugging the WIM (Websphere Identity Manager) part of WAS. The actual login piece is part of the adapters (database, ldap, file) which is the repository specific piece that WIM delegate the actual authentication to. The best debug string to use is "com.ibm.ws.wim.adapter.ldap.*=finest" as it limits the debugging to the LDAP piece of WIM. [read] Keywords: ibm application database server websphere

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Setting up LDAP failover for Websphere Application Server Wed, May 1st 2013 2:16a Mikkel Heisterberg As you may know LDAP is crucial to Websphere Application Server (WAS) when using it for IBM Connections so it makes good sense to configure failover for LDAP. If the LDAP server becomes unavailable you can no longer log in (actually you can't even log into ISC) and WAS can have a hard time reconnecting to the LDAP. Failover is set up using either the ISC Federated Security UI or by editing wimconfig.xml directly (or using wsadmin commands). Using wimconfig.xml have some advantages as you can se [read] Keywords: connections ibm application security server websphere xml

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Looking up a datasource from an IBM Connections event handler Tue, Apr 30th 2013 7:33a Mikkel Heisterberg For a customer project I'm working on these days I'm writing an event handler for IBM Connections Profiles to integrate two profile systems in real-time using the IBM Connections 4.0 Event SPI. Pretty powerful stuff in case you've never looked into it. In IBM Connections an event handler is basically just a Java bean which you register in events-config.xml to be called when certain events occur such as a profile being updated, the photo set, the photo removed etc. In this event handler I n [read] Keywords: connections ibm ldd lotus application database interface java profile server websphere xml

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Fixing IBM Connections help for IE users Mon, Apr 15th 2013 5:13a Mikkel Heisterberg At a customer site they were actually using the IBM Connections help documents (a first I know) but it didn't work for the users in Internet Explorer. After some research it turned out to be due to a missing compatability statement in the generated HTML documents (this statement is present in HTML generated for other features). I've previously reported this issue to IBM but it still hasn't been fixed in version 4.0 CR3 so I took it upon me to find a solution. The solution turned out to be sim [read] Keywords: connections ibm microsoft

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Hiding the Social Mail username and password from socialmail-discovery-config.xml Fri, Apr 5th 2013 12:38a Mikkel Heisterberg It's been bothering me a while that the username and password for our LDAP user was visible in clear text in our socialmail-discovery-config.xml. After going looking for a solution by using very specific searching I found a solution where you can hide the username and password and - stupid as I am - it's actually right there in the install docs. Stupid is as stupid does. The solution is to remove the authentication data from the socialmail-discovery-config.xml and replace the and tags with a [read] Keywords: connections domino ibm ldd lotus exchange exchange password websphere wiki xml

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There's a new sheriff in town Thu, Mar 28th 2013 2:33a Mikkel Heisterberg Last week was the annual BLUG event this time in Leuven, Belgium, and as always Theo and team created an amazing event. The BLUG event is now the biggest user group in the a World with a staggering 325 attendes and it really makes BLUG a mini-Connect event attracting the top names from IBM as well as the top speakers from all over the World. This year was no exception and the attendees were gifted with 18 IBM Champions covering everything from Domino to Websphere, XPages to widgets and social to [read] Keywords: atlantic collaboration connections domino ibm inotes notes xpages community linkedin twitter websphere widgets

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Finally! Mon, Mar 25th 2013 12:25p Mikkel Heisterberg [read] Keywords:

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Calendar integration example using OnTime Group Calendar API Mon, Mar 25th 2013 12:09p Mikkel Heisterberg The Solution To remedy this they decided to use the OnTime Group Calendar API to integrate the two systems using web services using an intermediate Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The OnTime Group Calendar API web services are hosted directly on IBM Domino and performs extremely well. After implementing the solution the insurance agents only need to maintain their calendar in Notes as it will reflect their true calendar showing both internal, external and personal appointments and meetings. Th [read] Keywords: domino ibm inotes notes notes client application enterprise integration mobile server