We’re winding up the first draft of the first 1/3 of the JAAS book. There’ll be plenty of editing and rewriting, for sure, but at least we have the raw-material to play around with now.

The next section is planned to be about using/integrating JAAS with other systems: LoginModules for Windows, Unix, etc.; hooking JAAS up to Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, etc.

My question to you, dear readers, is, are there any other systems you’d like to see written up?

For this part of the book, I’ve had to whip out my old Windows box:

It’s like an old man, this laptop: it’s got a wheezy fan, the lower left side of the keyboard doesn’t work so I have an external keyboard plugged in, the WiFi card I have for it works 10% of the time (I need to go by the office and get the card that works). And today, I found out I need to convert the drive to NTFS 5.0 to run Active Directory.