I was working on a Weblogic Portal application that needed to get information from a secure (WS-Security) third party web service over https. This web service used a legacy (pre-OASIS) WS-Security namespace and modern clients (like the one bundled with Weblogic server) don't create messages that conform to the old specification. Here's what I did to work around this restriction...

Here's how to get rid of the log message-- INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path when you startup Tomcat on OSX. On Windows, all one needs to do is drop in a precompiled dll, on OSX there are a few more steps...

OSX has what I would call an undocumented feature of the operating system- the portable home directory. Basically, it keeps a user's home directory sync'd up between a network share and the local pc. If you are not on the network you work on the local home directory. Whenever you login on the network, the mirror agent running on the local pc synchronizes the two directories. This simple, extremely useful concept came with a steep learning curve. I think it took me two weeks to get this all working...

I wanted to use iChat as my universal chat client on my mac. iChat has native connectivity available for Bonjour, AIM and Jabber but not MSN, Yahoo! or ICQ. How could I use it then to communicate with those services? Easy.. hook up to a jabber server that has the appropriate legacy gateways enabled.. yeah real easy..