It looks like Manning isn’t going to publish the JAAS book. Half to 60% of the final reviews all said “I wouldn’t spend $50 on this book.” So, Manning’s decision, of course, makes sense.
It’s sad on one hand — having my name on a print book would be cool — but happy on the other in that I have a shit-load (relative to blogs and web pages) of content that I can push out to the world now. You, dear readers, that in the end I value the second much more than the first ;>
A Book Wiki-Thingy
Now, the books all mine, so what I’d like to do is create a wiki of sorts out of it. I’m not sure what software to use, but I’d like to have it do something like the following:
- Allow me to “lock” the book section of the page. I’m not completely sure if I want to do this: it might be better to just let people edit anything. That might increase and maintain the books accuracy and quality much better than keeping the “core content” static.
- Allow people to add “notes” to any section — at least at the paragraph level of granularity.
- Allow comments to be added at the bottom.
- Prevent spammers from defacing/spamming.
- Be PHP, ruby, or python so I can host it at textdrive
Does anyone know of an app that’ll let me do all that?
Copyediting
Also, it’d be nice to get someone to read over the book for typos, misspellings, and general mistakes. I’m a terrible speller, so I’m not up for the job. If you’re really interested, I’d be glad if you could help out. Otherwise, I just might rely on putting it up on a wiki for copy-editing.
Get Your Hot PDFs!
In the meantime, you can get 120 pages of PDFs from this URL: http://drunkandretired.com/jaas-book/.
Lawrence Lessig did something very similar with his book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Hopefully you’ll find some good leads there, or perhaps WikiPedia has something you could use? Sorry to hear about the book, but at least you’ll get even more internet cred by getting this online and seriously linked up by all the assorted Java people/blogs/sites.
Find an other publisher.
Your book is the only (recent) one that I found about JAAS. I have set up my tomcat authentication in a bit more than one hour with the help of your book. So my conclusion is that your book is impressive.
Now I will personalize the Realm to work with an additional login parameter (Country, I expect I need to create a CountryCallback).
One topic that I couldn’t find in your book and that might be interested is SSO (Single-Sign-On).
Keep up the good work!
Architect of a HRM company.
Thanks for the compliment, Pieter. The fact that it helped you our quickly means a lot to me ;)
I’ll be giving a talk on the book at the local JUG (and perhaps some others), so we’ll see if I get more traction.
Feel free to drop me an email if you’d like to talk more about the book or JAAS.
thanks for the book… help me a lot in understanding jaas architecture and in to using jaas in my application… really a good work… manning’s reviewer made a big mistake…
I’m glad it was helpful, Andrea.
Cool!
I am learning from your book. I could not find any better on the topic.
Peter: I’m glad you like it, thanks for the comment ;)
Wow, mariothemusicspammer. That was a really helpfull post. And so very nice on subject too.
In our latest project we use JAAS, but I didn’t build that part myself. If I ever need to contribute there I’ll give your book a try.
Very cool that you are putting this out for free. You should put it up on lulu.com so those who choose, can get a hard copy. You would also get some kind of return as well.
I am doing my work for completion of course, I would their information so that I could reference in my work on the book JAAS in Action, as publisher, year of release, edition, number of pages, if you can help thank you very much.
Thank you.